Dariusz Krzysztof Wieczorek (born 23 May 1965) is a politician, electrical engineer, local government official, and tourism activist.

41, which consists of the western portion of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, and was a Minister of Science from 2023 to 2025.

[2] He studied energetics at the Szczecin University of Technology, from which he graduated in 1989 as the Master of Engineering.

[4][5] He joined the Democratic Left Alliance, and became a chairperson of its structures in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

As such, the investor was returned 5 million Polish złoty with interest, which it originally paid to the city as a down payment.

Additionally, they were fined and prohibited from occupying specific positions in the public administration, and obligated them to fix caused damages.

[20] On December 12, 2023, the 10th Sejm elected him as the Minister of Science in Donald Tusk's third government.

His tenure at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education sparked numerous controversies due to a series of irregularities widely reported in the media: On 19 December 2024, Wieczorek resigned from his position.