Elżbieta Kossecka

[2] In 1969 she obtained the doctoral degree (thesis topic: Theory of dislocation lines in a continuous medium).

[9][10][11][12] In later years, however, these were the issues of the theory of heat transfer falling within the building science,[13][14] and analysis of the climate characteristics of Poland in terms of its impact on energy consumption for heating and air conditioning of buildings and the possibility of using energy from renewable resources.

[4][6][15] A co-author of many of her scientific papers was Jan Kośny, her Ph.D. student when he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Rzeszów, who later worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Buildings and Materials Group and then at the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems CSE (US); from August 2019 he works at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

[16] Their joint work concerned, in particular, influence of internal structure of building walls on their dynamic thermal properties and energy consumption for exploitation purposes,[17] and multi-dimensional heat transfer through complex building envelope assemblies in hourly energy simulation programs.

[20] Their later works concerned, among others, methods for the optimization of the minimum test time during hot-box experiments,[21] and applications of phase-change materials (PCMs) in building envelopes.