Professor
Rufin Makarewicz
- Email: rufin.makarewicz@amu.edu.pl
- Phone: +48 61 829 51 21
- AMU Knowledge Base: publications
Rufin Makarewicz (born in 1947), a graduate of the Music School and VI High School in Bydgoszcz. Since 1965, he has been affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The beauty of mathematics led him to physics, and music to acoustics.
He first worked as a research intern, then as an assistant, lecturer, and associate professor, and since 1990 he has been a titular professor. Until 2016, he was the director of the Institute of Acoustics, and earlier he served as vice-dean (1981–1985) and dean (1987–1993) of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
His research interests focus on the phenomena accompanying the generation and propagation of acoustic waves in the atmosphere, as well as on methods for forecasting and reducing environmental noise.
He is the author of five textbooks, over 100 scientific papers in internationally recognized journals, and several technical reports. He has conducted research, among others, in the USA at Florida State University in Gainesville and at MIT in Cambridge near Boston (1978–1979), in Germany at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen (1985–1986), and in Japan at the University of Fukuoka (1995–1998).
He is a member of the editorial boards of Applied Acoustics, Journal of Aviation and Aeronautical Science, and Noise Mapping. He has been a member of acoustical societies in Poland, Japan, and the USA. He was a member of the Acoustics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Scientific Committee of ICA 2004 (Kyoto), and the New York Academy of Sciences. From 2004 to 2006, he participated in the European CALM Program (Brussels), aimed at coordinating actions to protect the environment from noise in Europe.
He sings and plays the piano, performing popular music standards. He claims that his greatest achievement was leading 100 couples in a polonaise with figures, during his tenure as vice-dean for student affairs at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at UAM.
