Deputy Head of the Department

dorota.kuchta@pwr.edu.pl  building B-1, room 317a Tel. No. +48 22 71 320 32 19

Academic and professional degrees and titles

Professor of economic sciences (2014)

Faculty of Information Technology and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

Postdoctoral fellow in economics (2002)

Institute for Organization and Management in Industry ORGMASZ, Warsaw, Poland.

PhD in economic sciences (1993)

Faculty of Management, Academy of Economics in Wroclaw, dissertation entitled: "Problems of linear programming with interval and fuzzy coefficients in the objective function", supervisor: Stefan Chanas, PhD.

Master of science in mathematics (1984)

Faculty of Fundamental Technological Problems, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, master's thesis entitled: "Multiplicative functions on Banach spaces", supervisor: Przemysław Kajetanowicz, PhD, Eng.

Professional experience

1. 2023 - professor in the Department of Project Management, Quality Management and Logistics, Faculty of Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology;
2. 1989-2023 - assistant, assistant professor, since 2014 professor in the Department of Computer Science and Management, since 2020 in the Department of Management Systems and Organization Development, Department of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology;
3. 2006-2014 professor at the Higher School of Land Forces Officers in Wroclaw;
4. 1999-2006 assistant professor, then associate professor at the College of Management and Finance in Wroclaw;
5. 1985-1989 assistant professor at the Institute of Road Traffic and Railways, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany.

Participation in projects

1. 2024-...   contractor in Unite Widening Project, responsible for one of work packages;
2. 2022-2023 - Contractor in the project Non-parametric approaches to measuring the performance of units with complex internal structure (funded by NCN);
3. 2018-2022 - Manager in the project Selected methods to support project management considering different groups of project stakeholders and using fuzzy numbers of 2.type (funded by NCN);
4. 2015-2017 - Manager in the project Identification of success and failure factors of research projects, with particular emphasis on projects implemented in higher education institutions, in European Union countries at different stages of development, using Poland and France as examples (funded by NCN);
5. 2011-2013 - Manager in the project Size and distribution of buffers in proactive and reactive management of the risk of time overrun by the project (funded by NCN);
6. 2009-2011 - Manager in the project Method of accounting for costs of higher education institutions based on activity-based costing (funded by NCBiR);
7. 2007-2010 - Manager in the project Optimal decision-making resistant to changes in the environment - concepts, methods, applications (funded by the NSC);
8. 1991-1993 and 1994-1995 - Contractor in the project Unconventional optimization methods in decision making (funded by the NSC).

Cooperation with the environment

Since 2024 -  member of the University Committee for Unfair Publication Practices;
2016-currently - Member of the Chapter of the IPMA Competition for the best thesis in project management.

Scientific interests

Project management;
Modeling of uncertainty and risk;
Optimization;
Managerial accounting.

Scientific achievements

Full list of publications can be found in the DONA database of Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Positions held

Since 2023 Deputy Head of the Department of Project Management, Quality Management and Logistics;
2016-2019 Head of the Department of Management Systems (Faculty of Computer Science and Management)
since 2002 Member of the Council of the Faculty of Information Technology and Management, then of the Faculty of Management.

Certificates held

2024: Comarch ERP XL (Manufacturing) certificate;
2023: Green Project Manager (GPM) certificate;
2013: PRINCE2 Foundation certificate;
2010: IPMA certificate, level D (Certified Project Management Associate).