Professor, PhD, rector of the Szczecin University and head of the Social and Economical Studies Unit at the Institute of History and International Relations of the Humanities Faculty. 1989-1992 he worked as associate professor at the Polish Academy of Science's History Institute, and as head of the Pomeranian History Study in Szczecin. Prof. Włodarczyk has been associated with the Szczecin University since 1992. 1996-2002 he was dean of the Humanities Faculty, and 2002-2008 he served as headmaster of the Institute of History and International Relations. Prof. Włodarczyk is also one of the four vice-presidents of the Polish Historical Society (PTH), as well as an Editorial Board member of several important Polish history periodicals: “Czasy Nowożytne,” “Zapiski Historyczne,” and “Studia Historae Oeconomicae.” He is a promoter of over a dozen doctoral theses. In 2007, prof. Włodarczyk received, together with prof. Zygmunt Szultka and prof. Włodzimierz Stępiński, the shared West Pomeranian Nobel prize for the 4th volume of “Pomorze Zachodnie w okresie od traktatu wersalskiego po klęskę III Rzeszy w 1945 roku.”