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.
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.
- 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