Basel / Zürich · open to selected mandates

I build the decision layer behind industrial operations.

PhD in Materials Science & Chemistry, summa cum laude · AGH CAPEX Project Manager · Hitachi Energy Co-founder · JustAutomate

Twelve years. A world-first 420 kV breaker, 10 MCHF in industrial projects across continents, a PhD in materials science and chemistry. One quiet thesis underneath it all: a factory runs better the moment one person sees its constraint before anyone starts shouting about it.

Portrait of Dr. Paweł Krawczyk
By the numbers

Specifics, in the absence of which an entrepreneur is just a hopeful adjective.

MCHF
Industrial projects led, in total, across continents and across companies
CH · SE · PL · CN · US · IT
kV
SF6-free breaker shipped. World first at this voltage class.
EconiQ™ · CIGRE · patent co-inventor
kCHF/yr
Sustained annual savings, aggregated across several Lean Six Sigma initiatives
Green Belt · multiple streams
citations
Body of work led by a high-entropy oxide paper. First reported material in its class.
h-index 5 · i10 3 · Google Scholar
Experience

A research bench. Then a factory. Then ten million francs of projects across six countries. One instrument, scaled.

Read top down: newest first. Each role was a larger version of the previous problem. Find the constraint, instrument it, ship the change.

2025 – present · Switzerland / Poland

Co-founder & AI Architect · JustAutomate

JustAutomate · BOND, operational decision layer for mid-market manufacturing
  • Co-founder alongside Paweł Pasterak (CEO).
  • BOND: agentic monitoring layer that surfaces the throughput constraint from live data.
  • TOC × AI category. Academia calls it TAIS (IJPR, 2024). We operationalise it.
  • Target: 50–500-employee DACH manufacturer. Diagnostic-first engagement.
2024 – present · Wettingen, CH

CAPEX Project Manager · Brownfield Expansion

Hitachi Energy · 3× capacity expansion programme
  • 50+ people. CH / SE / PL / CN / US / IT sites coordinated.
  • Part of a cumulative 10 MCHF in projects led across continents and companies.
  • Multiple Lean Six Sigma initiatives aggregating 950 kCHF/yr in sustained savings.
  • FAT / SAT discipline across multiple OEM packages.
  • Cambridge Judge, General Management certificate, "Steering Complex Projects" (2025).
2024 · Ludvika, SE

Senior R&D Engineer · Task-Force Lead

Hitachi Energy · Lead-free MOV coating recovery programme
  • Took over a delayed cross-site programme. Re-scoped, re-staffed, re-instrumented.
  • Reached TRL-7 in under 6 months.
  • 95% process-waste reduction. Stage-Gate review passed first attempt.
2020 – 2024 · Baden, CH

Associate Scientist · High-Voltage Eco-Gas Programme

Hitachi Energy · PhD in parallel, AGH, summa cum laude
  • Built the eco-gas analytics lab from a blank room.
  • Instrumental in the world-first 420 kV SF₆-free breaker (EconiQ™).
  • CIGRE representative. D1-10755-2024, D1 PS2/2.03 2022.
  • Patent co-inventor: US20240372340A1 / EP4388562A1 (zeolite adsorber).
  • Two further patents in preparation. Coating, low-temp CO catalysis.
  • PhD: materials science and chemistry. First reported material in its high-entropy class.
2019 – 2020 · Dübendorf

Master Thesis · Nanocomposite Water Filtration

Empa (ETH Domain) · MSc Chemical Technology, AGH
  • Designed and characterised electrospun nanocomposite membranes.
  • First Swiss research environment. First taste of regulated cleanroom science.
  • Foundation for later high-entropy-material work.
2016 – 2019 · Krakow

Student Researcher, then Production Specialist → Warehouse Ops Manager

AGH University of Krakow · Vesuvius PLC
  • BSc Materials Engineering at AGH. Lab-bench foundations.
  • Vesuvius refractories plant: production, then warehouse operations management.
  • 500+ t/day throughput. 80% scrap reduction on a chronic line.
  • ISO 9001:2015 internal auditor certification.
Expertise

Six domains. One operating principle. Find the constraint, then build the instrument that watches it.

Industrial CAPEX & program leadership

12 yrs

Brownfield expansions, Stage-Gate, FAT/SAT, multi-site OEM coordination.

Theory of Constraints × operational diagnosis

live in BOND

5 Focusing Steps as an operating cadence, not a binder. Bottleneck-first thinking.

Materials science & chemistry

PhD · patents

Eco-gases, high-entropy materials, surface chemistry. The discipline of measuring before claiming.

Lean Six Sigma & change leadership

Green Belt

DOE, FMEA, RCA. The unglamorous half of the job. Making the change stick.

Agentic AI systems & LLM engineering

building

Claude Code, agent orchestration, Python, Supabase. Learning by shipping BOND.

Industrial data & systems

8 yrs

SAP ERP, MES/IoT, Power BI, MS Project. The plumbing the AI layer plugs into.

Selected work

Three projects that each, in their own way, taught the same lesson.

High voltage · 2020 – 2024

EconiQ™ · 420 kV SF₆-free breaker

From an empty room to an analytical lab supporting a world-first product launch. Eco-gas chemistry, adsorber design (patented), CIGRE reporting.

1st 420 kV class 1 granted patent 2 in prep
Cumulative · 2016 – present

10 MCHF across continents

Projects led across CH, SE, PL, CN, US, IT. Different companies, different sectors, same instrument. Stage-Gate, OEM packages, FAT/SAT, brownfield expansions.

10 MCHF 6 countries 50+ people
Lean Six Sigma · multiple streams

950 kCHF/yr, aggregated

Savings did not come from one heroic project. They came from many initiatives, run in parallel, each one quietly subtracting cost. DOE, FMEA, RCA. No new steel.

950 kCHF/yr 0 CAPEX Green Belt

An operational decision layer for the mid-market manufacturer.

BOND is an agentic monitoring system. It watches your live operations data and surfaces the single biggest throughput constraint every Monday, with evidence, before the firefighting starts. Built on the same diagnostic discipline that already saved seven figures inside a Fortune-listed industrial group.

"Eighty percent of the Mittelstand has not started with AI. The first ones in will be the ones who diagnosed their constraint before they digitised it. The largest licence is usually irrelevant."
Research footprint

A small, dense body of peer-reviewed work. The kind a hiring director quietly checks.

Flagship paper

High-entropy oxide, first reported in its class

The paper a materials reviewer recognises before reading the cover. Anchors work spanning high-entropy oxides, thin perovskite films and colloidal processing.

First of its class
Granted patent · US / EP

Zeolite adsorber for eco-gas breakers

Co-inventor on the adsorber chemistry that made the SF₆-free switching envelope hold under service conditions.

US20240372340A1 · EP4388562A1
Patents in preparation

Bushing coating · low-temperature CO catalysis

Two further filings underway alongside the EconiQ™ programme, both born out of lab work that started as a production problem.

2 filings underway
Peer-reviewed body

137 citations, h-index 5, i10 3

Materials · ACS Applied Electronic Materials · Membranes · Applied Surface Science. Small, dense, and verifiable.

137 citations · h-5
CIGRE

Conference reporting on SF₆-free switchgear

Representative for the eco-gas programme at the industry body that sets the reference for high-voltage practice.

D1-10755-2024 · D1 PS2/2.03
Education

PhD summa cum laude · Cambridge Judge

AGH Krakow 2015–2024: Materials Engineering → Chemical Technology → PhD in materials science and chemistry. Cambridge Judge, General Management, 2025.

PhD summa cum laude
Contact

If your constraint is becoming expensive, we should probably talk.

Diagnostic engagements run two to four weeks. Output: a written report and a one-hour debrief. One of two things happens. You see the operational change you had not seen, or you do not spend money on a change you were about to make. Selected mandates only.