On June 23, 2025, Marcin Dembowski successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Affine continuous cellular automata and their role in solving density classification problems" at the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the title of Doctor of Information and Communication Technology. Marcin was supervised by Bernard De Baets and Barbara Wolnik (Institute of Mathematics of the University of Gdańsk). The research of Marcin was sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies in Mathematical Modelling at the University of Gdańsk.