Zdzisław Kusto | Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

Zdzisław Kusto was a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology, where he completed studies in the field of power plants and energy management. For most of his professional life, he was associated with his home faculty.

He also collaborated with the Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gdańsk, where in 1984 he defended one of the first doctoral dissertations in Poland related to solar energy and obtained a doctorate in technical sciences.

He specialized in the issues of the efficiency of using unconventional energy sources, including nuclear and renewable energy sources. In addition to active scientific and didactic work, he was also the organizer and manager of many editions of postgraduate studies at the Gdańsk University of Technology, including the first edition of the Postgraduate Study in Energy Auditing.

Zdzisław Kusto left behind numerous publications and scientific and technical studies, including two highly valued monographs on the use of heat pumps. He was also a co-founder and member of the Polish Wind Energy Society and the Energy Conservation Foundation in Gdańsk, as well as a member of the Council of Experts of the National Energy Conservation Agency in Warsaw.

He will remain in our memory as a versatile and very competent academic teacher and scientist, and at the same time an extremely liked, kind and cordial collaborator. A friend whose camera captured numerous events in the life of the Faculty and the University, and whose wonderful chorister voice made some of them splendid.

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