Jakub Lengiewicz graduated in informatics from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He received the Ph.D. degree in mechanics (computational methods in contact mechanics) from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN), Warsaw, Poland, in 2009. In 2010 he has started a programmable matter project at IPPT, of which he is the leader. So far, he earned two research grants on this subject (over 300K Euro in total). In 2018 he was awarded an MSCA Individual Fellowship with the University of Luxembourg as the host, where he will continue his investigations towards effective reconfiguration planning and control of programmable matter.