Research
I'm interested in condensed matter physics. Most of the time I have been studying electronic structure, phonons and magnetic properties of materials, using DFT (Density Functional Theory),
implemented in KKR-CPA, LAPW and pseudopotential methods.
This includes:
- Electronic structure of superconductors, semiconductors (especially thermoelectrics), magnetic materials
- Dynamic properties and electron-phonon interaction in superconductors
- Search for and study of resonance impurities in thermoelectrics
- Transport properties of crystals (in particular of thermoelectrics)
- Calculations of the magnetic entropy of magnetocaloric materials.
We conduct calculations on our own computing servers, purchased through
NCN projects, and using the supercomputers of the
PlGrid infrastructure and
ACK Cyfronet AGH.
Research projects
My own projects (Primary Investigator):

Project NCN Sonata-bis 7 ST In February 2018, the National Science Center (Poland)
qualified for funding my 5-years research project entitled "The role of resonant states, spin-orbit coupling and disorder in superconductivity of selected materials". The project runs from April 2018 to March 2023. You can find more on this project here.
- PhD grant funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) "Theoretical research on selected intermetallic systems in the aspect of the proximity of the superconducting and magnetic state" no N N202 1975 33 (2007-2009).
As a co-investigator:

Project NCN Maestro" Study of resonant and conventional impurities effect on thermoelectric properties including relativistic effects", nr 2011/02/A/ST3/00124 (2012-2017)
- Project funded by the USA Air Force Office of Scientific Research MURI FA9550-10-1-0533, "Cryogenic Peltier Cooling" (2010-2014) led by the Ohio State University (USA).
- Project funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) "Ab initio calculations for functional materials, crystals, disordered systems, inter-surface and surface: electron, phonon, magnetic and thermoelectric properties", 44/N-COST/2007/0 (2007-2010), in collaboration with Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Science (Krakow).
- Project funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) "Studies on the dynamics of electrons in complex intermetallic systems with a metal-semiconductor transition in the aspect of strong thermoelectric properties", N N202 2104 33 (2007-2009).
- Project funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) "Searching for intermetallic systems with strong magnetocaloric properties" nr 1 P03 B 113 29. (2005-2007), in collaboration with Cracow University of Technology.
- Project "Polonium" (Polish-French project, duration: January 2006 - December 2007, in cooperation with Laboratoire de Cristallographie CNRS Grenoble).
- Project "ECONET" (international project, no 08 13 3 RA, duration: January 2004 - December 2005, in cooperation with Laboratoire de Cristallographie CNRS Grenoble).
Shortened scientific CV::
Diplomas and scientific degrees
- Master of Science in technical physics, 14.06.2004. AGH University of
Science and Technology,
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science. Master thesis title:
Calculations of the electron-phonon properties of MgB$_2$ and
MgCNi$_3$-type superconductors, thesis supervisor dr hab. Janusz Toboła.
Diploma with honors.
- Ph.D. in physics, 25.05.2009. AGH University of Science and
Technology,
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science. Ph. D. thesis title:
Theoretical studies of the superconducting and magnetic properties of the
selected intermetallic compounds, thesis supervisor dr hab. Janusz Toboła.
Diploma with honors.
- Habilitation in physics, 14.01.2019. AGH University of Science and
Technology,
Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science. Habilitation title:
Resonant impurities in the thermoelectric materials -- electronic
structure and transport properties. Habilitation with honors.
Employment in scientific institutions
- 10.2008 - 09.2010, assistant at the Faculty of Physics and Applied
Computer Science,
AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland
- 10.2010 - 09.2019, assistant professor at the Faculty of Physics and
Applied Computer Science,
AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland
- 03-08.2011, 07-08.2012, 03-08.2014, Postdoctoral researcher,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
- 10.2019 - until now, university professor, at the Faculty of Physics
and Applied Computer Science,
AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland