Maria Anna Polak

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Maria Anna "Marianna" Polak is a Polish and Canadian civil engineer whose research concerns the analysis and testing of structural concrete and concrete structures. She is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where she holds a University Research Chair. [1]

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Education and career

Polak was a student at Tadeusz Kościuszko Kraków University of Technology, where she received a master's degree in 1982 and a master's degree in 1984. After working as a structural engineer, she came to Canada for a doctorate at the University of Toronto, completed in 1992. [1]

She joined the University of Waterloo faculty in 1992. [2]

Recognition

Polak became a Humboldt Research Fellow in 1998. [3] She was named as a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering in 2020, [4] and elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2022. [5] She is also a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 "Maria Anna Polak", Civil and Environmental Engineering profiles, University of Waterloo, retrieved 2025-05-31
  2. "Marianna Polak", Author profiles (in Polish), Inzynieria, retrieved 2025-05-31
  3. "Prof. Dr. Maria Anna Polak", Profiles, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, retrieved 2025-05-31
  4. "Congratulations to the 2020 CSCE Fellows", CSCE/SCGC E-bulletin, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 4 August 2020, retrieved 2025-05-31
  5. Goldberg, David (17 June 2022), Two Civil Alumni elected as Fellows into the Canadian Academy of Engineering, University of Toronto Civil & Mineral Engineering, retrieved 2025-05-31
  6. Fellows, American Concrete Institute, retrieved 2025-05-31