Researcher unique identifier(s), Research ID: I-4468-2014, ORCID: 0000-0003-1546-6754
- EDUCATION
16/12/2019 – University Professor
01/10/2013 – 28/11/2019 – Habilitation (Associate Professor) in political science, Faculty of International and Political Studies University of Lodz/Lodz/Poland
01/10/2007 - 16/04/2012 Ph.D. in political science (Assistant Professor), Faculty of International and Political Studies University of Lodz/Lodz/Poland
1/10/2002 - 09/07/2007 Master of Arts, political scientist , Faculty of International and Political Studies University of Lodz/Lodz/Poland
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CURRENT POSITION(N)
16/12/2019 – University Professor Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Rzeszow University
of Technology/Rzeszow/Poland
1/10/2012 - present Adjunct Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Rzeszow University
of Technology/Rzeszow/Poland
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (PREVIOUS POSITION(N)
02/2021 – 05/2021 - Senior SpecialistSenior Specialist Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Innovative Technology EMAG (evaluation of grant applications)
03/06/2013 – 31/05/2015 - Expert in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland - Program Projects Office
10/05/2012 - 10/05/2013 Member of President’s Expert Program, Chancellery of the President of the Republic
of Poland/Warsaw/Poland
01/10/2011 - 30/09/2012 Lecturer Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Rzeszow University
of Technology/Rzeszow/Poland
01/08/2009 - 30/06/2011 Specialist Podkarpacka Energy Agency/Rzeszow/Poland
01/09/2006 - 30/06/2009 Assistant Office of Jan Kułakowski Member of European Parliament/Lodz/Poland
- FELLOWSHIPS
13-17/05/2019 - Ekonomicka Univerzita v Bratislave, Slovakia, Erasmus Scholarship
Activity: Lectures in English - topics: "Energy policy in the V4 countries", "Diversification of gas policy in the V4 countires".
21/09/2016-28/09/2016 Library query and research in the library, Freie Universität Berlin/Germany
▪ Role: Project Leader
▪ Activity: Library query.
▪ Impact: Work in international environment.
▪ Result: Kaim-Albers N., Ruszel M., Energy Policy Transition - perspective of Germany, [in:] Energy Policy Transition - The Perspective of Different States, red. M. Ruszel, T. Młynarski, A. Szurlej, Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institute, Rzeszow 2017, p. 117-134.
13/06/2016-25/06/2016 Library query and research in the library, Freie Universität Berlin/Germany
▪ Role: Project Leader
▪ Activity: Library query.
▪ Impact: Work in international environment.
▪ Result: Kaim-Albers N., Ruszel M., Energy Policy Transition - perspective of Germany, [in:] Energy Policy Transition - The Perspective of Different States, red. M. Ruszel, T. Młynarski, A. Szurlej, Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institute, Rzeszow 2017, p. 117-134.
01/09/2015-30/11/2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Deutsches Akademische Dienst (DAAD), Deutsches Wirtschaftsforschung Institut/Berlin/Germany
▪ Role: Project Leader
▪ Activity: Leading scientific research on The role of the electricity storages in the European Union internal energy market, panellist at the seminar Gas Supply Security in an Energy Union [Berlin Seminar on Energy and Climate Policy - BSEC], participant of the seminar The Future of European Energy: Implications for Security, Competitiveness and Climate Change (Chatham House - London).
▪ Impact: Work in international environment, acquire new skills and teaching methods that are applied at home University
▪ Result: Publication: Ruszel M., Energy security different perspectives - Germany and Poland, [w:] Common Values. Discussing German and Polish Perceptions of European Integration, red. W. Preismeier-Tkocz, Nomos, Berlin 2017.
30/06/2014 - 10/07/2014 Guest Department of Management Ca'Foscari University of Venezia/Venezia/Italy
▪ Activity: Leading scientific research
▪ Impact: Promote research cooperation.
▪ Result: Prontera A., Ruszel M, Energy Security in the Eastern Mediterranean, "Middle East Policy", volume XXIV, no. 3 (Fall 2017), p. 145-162.
30/04/2014-13/05/2014 Research stay and library query at Université de Genéve/Switzerland
▪ Activity: Library query.
▪ Impact: Work in international environment.
25/11/2013-29/11/2013 Erasmus Scholarship (International Guest Week), Banku Augstskola School
of Business and Finance/ Riga/ Latvia
▪ Activity: Lectures in English - topic: Energy policy of the EU and financial crisis, The importance of alternative sources of energy
▪ Impact: Development international research and teach experience
18/11/2013-22/11/2013 Erasmus Scholarship (International Guest Week), Vives University College/ Kortrijk/ Belgium
▪ Activity: Lectures in English - topic: Energy resources as strategic natural resources
▪ Impact: Gained experience in teaching that are implement at Rzeszow University of Technology
18/03/2013 - 24/03/2013 Erasmus Scholarship (STA), KATHO University College/Kortrijk/Belgium
▪ Activity: Lectures in English - topics: "Energy policy of the EU", "The importance of alternative
sources of energy", "Shale gas - new opportunity for Europe"
▪ Impact: Gained experience in teaching that are implement at Rzeszow University of Technology
25/03/2012 - 31/03/2012 Erasmus Scholarship (STA), Université de Provence – Aix-Marseille/ Marseille/France
▪ Activity: Lectures in English - topics: “Energy policy of the European Union”, “European views on security
of supply” and “Shale gas in the Visegrad Group countries”
▪ Impact: Gained experience in teaching that are implement at Rzeszow University of Technology, development international research and teach experience
02/03/2011 - 12/03/2011 Erasmus Scholarship (STA), Université Libre de Bruxelles/Bruxelles/Belgium
▪ Activity: Lectures in English - topics: "Energy policy of the European Union - external relations"
"Securitization of energy policy - through NATO"
▪ Impact: Research for Ph. D. dissertation (interviews in European institutions)
- INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
11/03/2020 – present Secretary of Scientific Discipline Council of the Security Studies
01/10/2019 – 30/08/2020 Vice-Dean for Development and Cooperation with Industry The Faculty of
Management of Rzeszow University of Technology
18/05/2015 - present President of the Board of the Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institute/Poland
15/03/2015 - present Reviewer of "European Integration Studies", "Political Science Review",
"Economics and Business", "Journal of Contemporary European Research",
"Strategic Yearbook"
20/08/2014 - present Reviewer of "Applied Energy", "Energy Policy", "Resources and Energy
Economics" - Elsevier
01/12/2012 - present Guardian of Students’ Scientific Association “Eurointegracja” at Departments of
Economics Faculty of Management Rzeszow University of Technology/Rzeszow/Poland
- MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
01/10/2017 - present Member, The academic association for Contemporary European Studies
01/10/2013 - present Member, European International Studies Association (EISA)
10/11/2010 - present Member, Polish Association for International Studies (PTSM)
01/10/2017 - 30/09/2019 Member, Team Europe
- MAJOR COLLABORATIONS
18/05/2015 - present Expert, Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institute/Poland
01/04/2008 - present Expert, Casmir Pulaski Foundation in are of energy policy/Warsaw/Poland
01/02/2011 - present Expert, Kosciuszko Institute in area of energy and climate policy/Cracow/Poland
01/10/2016 - present Member, Young Professionals in Energy
- AWARDS
12/2020 An individual I-grade award of the Rector of the Rzeszów University of Technology for organizational activity
12/2020 An individual I-grade award of the Rector of the Rzeszów University of Technology for a series
of publications and monographs
12/2018 and 12/2017 An individual III-grade award of the Rector of the Rzeszów University of Technology for organizational activity
10/2017-11/2020 – Award granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for or outstanding academic achievements for young scholars
12/2021 and 12/2016 An individual III-grade award of the Rector of the Rzeszów University of Technology for a series of publications and monographs
12/2015 A Team I-grade award of the Rector of the University of Economics in Poznan for original and creative scientific achievements in the academic year 2014/2015 - for co-authorship of the outstanding book "European Union 2014+" [ed. E. Małuszyńska, G.Mazur, Wydawnictwo Difin, Warsaw 2015]
- LANGUAGES
English - fluent, TOEIC Certificate
German - fluent, ZMP Certificate
- ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
2015- present Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the I Scientific Conference "Energy Security - pillars and
- SUPERVISING AND MENTORING
01/2021 – 31//12/2024 Member of the Independent Scientific Assessment Group of the "Science for Peace and Security" program of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO)
12/2020 – present Expert Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission
04/2020 - present Evaluator of the National Centre for Research and Development (Narodowe Centrum Badań
i Rozwoju)
05/2020 – present Expert of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)
09/2020 – present Member of the Scientific Council of the Distributed Energy Competence Network
10/2013 – present Supervisor of Master and Bachelor theses
2014 – present Reviewer in international and Polish journals
- CHIEF-OF-EDITOR
08/2017 - present Chief-of-editor scientific journal "Energy Policy Studies" (ISSN: 2545-0859)
- SCIENTIFIC BOOKS
- Franaszek, P. Grata, A. Kozicka-Kołaczkowska, M. Ruszel, G. Zamoyski, A Prometheus on a Human Scale – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Peter Lang, Berlin 2019
Energy security - Concepts - challenges - interests, ed. J. Gryz, A. Podraza, M. Ruszel, PWN, Warsaw 2018
Gałczyński M., Ruszel M., Turowski P, Zajdler R., Zawisza A. (2017), Global LNG Market, Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institute, Rzeszów 2017
Energy Policy Transition - The Perspective of Different States (2017), red. M. Ruszel, T. Młynarski, A. Szurlej, Ignacy Lukasiewicz Energy Policy Institute, Rzeszów 2017
Ruszel M., Polish influence on shaping the EU energy policy 2004-2015 (2016), Publishing House Difin, Warsaw 2016
Gędek S., Nowacki M., Polak S., Ruszel M., Zajdler R., EU internal gas market (2015), Publishing House Rambler, Warsaw 2015
Energy security in the EU's internal energy market (2015), ed. S. Gędek, M. Ruszel, Publishing House Rambler, Warsaw 2015
Ruszel M. (2014). Energy security of Poland. Theoretical and practical dimension, Publishing House Rambler, Warsaw 2014
- BOOK REVIEW
Ruszel M. (2018), Book Review Energy Relations in the Euro-Mediterranean: A Political Economy Perspective,
by S. Tagliapietra, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 56, issue 6, September 2018, p. 1487-1488.
Ruszel M. (2015), Book review: Quest: energy security, and the thinking of the modern world, "Global Affairs", volume 1, issue 3, 2015.
- SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES (over 70 – individual author) among others:
Ruszel M., The development of global LNG exports, in: ed. K. Liutho, The Future of Energy Consumption, Security and Natural Gas. LNG in the Baltic Sea region, Palgrave Macmillan 2022, p. 1-20.
Ruszel M., Masłoń A., Ogarek P., Analysis of biogas from sewage sludge digestion in terms of diversification in the natural gas production structure in Poland, "Desalination and Water Treatment" vol. 232, August 2021, pp. 298-307.
Ruszel M., The significance of the Baltic Sea Region for natural gas supplies to the V4 countries, „Energy Policy”, Volume 146, November 2020, 111786.
- RESEARCH PROJECTS
Member of research project: Optimization of algorithms and parameters of the dynamics of a CNC machine tool in order improving the accuracy of her work - Podkarpackie Innovation Center (PCI), number: N3_610, 2022.
Coordinator of research project: Global LNG Market - Ministry of Science and Higher Education (contract number: 882/PDUN/2016) 2016-2017.
Coordinator of research project: Energy Policy Transition - perspective of different States - Ministry of Science and Higher Education (contract number: 882/PDUN/2016) 2016-2017.
Coordinator of research project: The role of the electricity storages in the European Union internal energy market - Postdoctoral Research Scholarship Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD, 2015), (contract number: 91574569) 2015.
Coordinator of research project: German energy policy - analysis of strategic goals, Rzeszow University
of Technology (contract number: U-808/DS/M), 2017.
Contractor of research project about power to gas (P2G): Formal and legal analysis taking into account national and EU regulatory aspects, together with restrictions resulting from the performance of the PSG as Distribution System Operator and recommendation of necessary legislative changes, 2017. Institute of the Economy of Mineral Raw Materials and Energy of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Gas Company (contract no. 2017/PSG1/RR/689).
