Bronisław Rudak is a professor of physical sciences and holds a postdoctoral degree from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2018, he has headed the Department of Astrophysics I in Toruń, operating within the CAMK PAN, where he has worked as a professor since 2010. From 1999 to 2012, he was also a professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He gained international experience, among others, as a research fellow at Pennsylvania State University in the United States and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching, Germany.

His research interests include high-energy astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, and cosmology.

Professor Rudak participates in important international scientific collaborations, including the High Energy Stereoscopic System Collaboration (H.E.S.S.) and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium. As part of the H.E.S.S. He was a co-winner of prestigious team awards: the Descartes Research Prize in 2007 and the Bruno Rossi Prize in 2010.

He is an active reviewer of journals in the field of astrophysics and physics and an expert assessor of grant applications for the European Research Council (ERC) – as well as research funding agencies in Poland, France, Ireland, Hong Kong, and South Africa. He served on the ERC Consolidator Grant evaluation panels in 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2025.

In 2021–2024, he was a member of the Council of the National Science Centre, and in 2020–2023, a member of the Committee on Astronomy of the Polish Academy of Sciences.