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Leszek ADAMOWICZ, PhD, DSc, (e-mail: leszek.adamowicz@pw.edu.pl). In the academic staff of Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) since 1961. Published over 50 papers (mainly in ISI journals) and one book on Quantum Mechanics. Promoted 15 students to MSc degrees. Under my supervision, 10 students were promoted to the PhD degrees: Jerzy Ignaciuk (1976), Stanisław Borczuch (1977), Zelikha Hammoud (1985), Piotr Kociński (1993), Jacek Kubica (1995), Mariusz Zbroszczyk (1997), Piotr Borowik (1998), Paweł Najechalski (2002), Mariusz Zdrojek (2006), Jarosław Judek (2011). As a researcher or visiting professor spent 6 years abroad (in the US, France, and Algeria).
1961 MSc Degree in Solid State Physics from A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
1961 Teaching assignment on a post of assistant at Warsaw University of Technology 1969 PhD in Solid State Physics
1978 Research Associate in Research Group of Professor Joseph Callaway, LSU, USA
1979 DSc (habilitation)
1980 - 1985 Position of Professor at the University of Constantine, Algeria
1990 - 1993 Dean of the Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, WUT
2009 – retired from Warsaw University of Technology
Organisation activity:
Initiator and co-organiser of eight international seminars with the participation of specialists from all over Europe in collaboration with Nicolas Copernicus University (Toruń, Poland) „Nanostructures: Research, Technology and Applications” in Bachotek near Brodnica, Poland (http://www.phys.uni.torun.pl/ZMIKRO/Bachotek2004);
Faculty contact person for international projects (SOCRATES-ERASMUS, European Framework Programs FP5 and FP6);
Head of Condensed Matter Structure Research Division at the Faculty of Physics, WUT;
Contributed to the high-quality equipment of Raman Spectroscopy Laboratory;
Co-organiser of activities of Regional Epitaxy Laboratory of Nanostructures, created in 2004 by the Faculty of Physics, WUT, and the Institute of Electron Technology in Warsaw.
Research activity:
Solid state magnetism, spin waves, large-scale computing of magnetic dynamic susceptibility within LDA, DFT band structure calculations, surface of semiconductors, photonic crystals, Monte Carlo modelling of charge transport in III-V semiconductors quantum cascade laser structures, carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires assembly by travelling dielectrophoresis.
Scientific collaboration:
Faculty of Chemistry and Faculty of Materials Engineering at WUT, Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Sanct Petersburg University, Université des Sciences et de Technologies de Lille (IEMN), Institut Català de Nanotecnologia (ICN), Barcelona, Spain.
Member of Advisory Board of the FP5 Centre of Excellence “CEPHOMA” (http://www.cephoma.if.pw.edu.pl/wp1.html)
First President of the Chapter for Distinguished Young Scientist’s Medal, founded by WUT in 2008.
Referee of many international journals.
Evaluator of «Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur» (HCERES, France).
Director or participant in many research projects supported by the State Committee for Scientific Research (Poland).
Teaching:
Quantum Physics, Quantum mechanics I and II, Elements of modern physics, Electrodynamics, Thermodynamics.
Family status:
Sharing my life with Ewa, who has been my wife since 1969. We have three daughters and four grandchildren.
Activities for pleasure:
Fun farm activities, drawings and painting, animals, swimming, sea sailing, downhill skiing.
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Funding (7)
15-0011-04/2008
PBZ-MNiSW-02/I/2007
PBZ/KBN/0444/P03/2001
7 T08A 00719
JEP-7917-94
JEP-8051-94