Przemyslaw Maziarka, PhD

Sustainable Transformation Passionate | Project Manager

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

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Experience

  • ORLEN S.A. ()
    • Project Manager
      Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr

      Business Project Manager in the Biofuels Development Office ▪ Unlocking the full market potential of industrial-scale biofuels production through the strategic operationalization of existing production assets. ▪ Consolidating market insights to develop high-revenue, decarbonization-aimed projects grounded in robust data-driven market projections. ▪ Conducting multivariate analyses to identify the most effective solution, providing a foundational work for new projects, and fostering stakeholder alignment.

    • Project Manager
      Feb 2025 - Jul 2025 · 6 mos

      Business Project Manager in the Project Development Office ▪ Implementation of industrial-scale processing solutions within the existing framework of refinery and petrochemical assets. Leading projects with a focus on maximizing margin outcomes. ▪ Managed a multi-million EUR project through the planning phase to the final corporate decision. ▪ Aligned stakeholders and kept their involvement, led successful negotiations with the licensor, and oversaw external consultants and the project budget.

  • Research Development Consultant at Agro Smart Lab Sp. z o.o.
    Sep 2024 - Jan 2025 · 5 mos

    Consulting areas: ▪ Critical data analysis of results from experimental trials of the company's product on antiviral effectiveness. ▪ Providing insights on how to unlock business advantage for the company. ▪ Guiding and supporting the publication writing process.

  • WP Leader / R&D Researcher at AGH University of Krakow
    Sep 2023 - Jun 2024 · 10 mos

    Polyols Project – Unlocking the potential of the food industry’s bio-wastes through their multi-variant valorization into sweeteners and bio-fuels. WP3 - Experimental valorization of bio-oils obtained from hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of bio-wastes into bio-fuel and bio-hydrogen through vacuum distillation and residue thermo-cracking, with analytical analyses of products (e.g., GC-MS/FID). Role: ▪ Co-initiated the project, co-wrote and successfully defended the proposal, supporting project management by coordinating task execution and mitigating associated risks. ▪ Led works on the development of the novel route of waste-derived bio-oil conversion and refining into bio-chemicals and bio-hydrogen. ▪ Conducted critical evaluations of the solution's applicability, focusing on the business efficiency and needs of the commercial project partner.

  • Project Manager / Process Engineer at University of Hohenheim
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    ProGrün Project (Leading) - Sustainable farming with the conversion of grass biomass into protein-rich feed and bio-chemicals (on-farm bio-refinery in practice). Grün Pro Hen Project (Supporting) - Sustainable farming with the conversion of grass biomass into protein-rich feed for laying hens. Grace Project (Supporting) - Advancing sustainable bioeconomy by enabling large-scale cultivation of miscanthus and hemp on marginal lands to produce innovative biobased products (working within the WP on 5-HMF production upscaling). Role: ▪ Planned and divided tasks, managed time and available resources, ensured effective document and information flow, handled internal and external communication, and maintained high project visibility. ▪ Controlled the budget, provided technical and financial reporting to funding institutions, ensured documentation compliance, managed public tenders, purchases, and external services ▪ Designed, fitted, and built a new demo-scale production installation (100 kg/h) for grass-protein isolation in the Biorefinery Technology Centre (brownfield development), coupled the installation to the existing platform bio-chemical production (5-HMF, furfural) ▪ Supervised production campaigns (2x 4-month, 2 shifts/day), ensured feed supply, product storage (biologically unstable), and processing, onboarding, and managed workers (21 student researchers of various backgrounds in total), ensured OSH, and fostered a friendly work environment ▪ Assessed process performance, summarized and critically analyzed results, prepared TEA and input data for LCA, and developed a process up-scaling plan in collaboration with business partners

  • Scientific Researcher at Ghent University
    Apr 2017 - Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    GreenCarbon Project – Tailoring carbon materials from bio-wastes through sustainable production pathways. (MCSA-ITN, H2020-EU) Role: ▪ Critical evaluated of data from other project partners (6 entities) using statistical tools (ANOVA, PCA), and established a reliable prediction model (MLR) for carbon material properties based on biomass characteristics and pyrolysis conditions from the obtained data ▪ Developed a comprehensive CFD model for single-particle wood pyrolysis to predict porosity changes (in COMSOL™), validated it with data from own experiments and a thorough literature review ▪ Streamlined and optimized administrative processes through the implementation of a Microsoft SharePoint-based system