Scientific experience
- Since 09/2016: Head of CoolPhon Group at Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
- Since 12/2010: Researcher, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Cryogenic and Spintronic Research SL2.2, Warsaw, Poland.
- 10/2022: Habilitation (with distinction), Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Switching thermometry for dynamical investigations of thermal processes at nanoscale.
- 10/2021 - 12/2021: visit to the Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University, Finland, supported by European Microkelvin Platform. Implementation of my own project: Quasiparticle diffusion and thermal relaxation in Meissner and vortex states.
- 07/2014 - 12/2014: Internship, PICO Group headed by Academy Professor Jukka Pekola, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University, Finland. Development of the fast thermometer based on the proximity Josephson junction embedded in the microwave coplanar superconducting resonator and probed with microwaves.
- 10/2008 - 09/2010: PostDoc, Quantronics Group , CEA Saclay, France, Spectroscopy of Andreev bound states in superconducting atomic contacts.
- 01/2004 - 09/2008: PhD studies, Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Thesis title: Experimental study of fluctuations in ultra-narrow superconducting nanowires.
- 10/2001 - 06/2002: Student, Socrates-Erasmus scholarship, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
- 09/2003: Master of Science (with distinction), Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics, Solid State Ionics, Physics, Best Master Thesis Award at WUT in 2003, founded by FIAT company.
- 1998 - 2003: Student, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics, Poland. Specialization: Solid State Physics. Obtained scholarship for excellence twice (2001/2002 and 2002/2003)
Grants awarded
- SONATA BIS-9, National Center for Science, Thermodynamics of nanostructures at low temperatures, start: 01/04/2020, nominal duration: 5 years, budget: 3 341 000 PLN
- First Team (0036) - extension of the basic grant awarded in the contest, Foundation for Polish Science, Stochastic thermometry with Josephson Junction down to nanosecond resolution, duration: 01/04/2020 - 30/06/2022, budget: 1 200 000 PLN
- First Team (0036), Foundation for Polish Science, Stochastic thermometry with Josephson Junction down to nanosecond resolution, duration: 01/09/2016 - 31/03/2020, budget: 2 000 000 PLN
- Homing Plus (066), Foundation for Polish Science, Properties of magnetic nanostructures studied with superconducting devices, duration: 01/09/2011 - 30/11/2013, budget: 328 000 PLN
Awards and prizes
- 2022: The Annual Director's Awards for the habilitation achievement.
- 2016: Institute of Physics PAS Director's award for the best publication in 2016.
- 2015: Supervised Master thesis won the XII edition (2015) of ABB contest for the Best Master and PhD thesis (one contest for both kind of theses), 30 000 PLN, Poland.
Selected recent Invited oral talks
- 12/2023: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Quantum thermodynamics with a single superconducting vortex, Poland
- 03/2023: Aalto Quantum Physics Seminar, Department of Applied Physics, Low Temperature Laboratory, Probing vortices with a superconducting nanobridge, Aalto, Finland
- 08/2022: 29th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT29), Switching thermometry for dynamical investigations of thermal processes at nanoscale, Sapporo, Japan
- 12/2021: Aalto Quantum Physics Seminar, Department of Applied Physics, Low Temperature Laboratory, Switching thermometry for dynamical investigations of thermal processes at nanoscale, Aalto, Finland
- 11/2020: Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań, Thermodynamics of nanostructures at low temperatures. How to measure temperature by flipping a coin?, Poland
- 12/2019: BTNT 2019, Switching thermometry: How to measure temperature by flipping a coin?, Bhubaneswar, India
- 05/2019: Vortex 2019 Conference, How to measure temperature by flipping a coin?, Antwerp, Belgium
- 02/2019: International Workshop - Probing Coherent Superconducting Hybrids at the Nanoscale, Nanosecond thermometry with Josephson junction, Eilat, Israel
Supervised Master Theses
- 2020: Paulina Grzączkowska, Wyznaczanie czasu relaksacji termicznej nanostruktur nadprzewodzących (Determination of the thermal relaxation time of superconducting nanostructures), Warsaw
- 2017: Konrad Norowski, Wytworzenie i charakteryzacja złącz Josephsona do zastosowań w magnetometrii i termometrii (Fabrication and characterization of Josephson junctions for magnetometry and thermometry applications), Warsaw
- 2014: Łukasz Pawliszak, Kontrola ruchu domen magnetycznych w nanodrutach permalojowych wytwarzanych metodą litografii elektronowej (Control of magnetic domain motion in permalloy nanowires fabricated by electron-beam lithography), Warsaw
- 2012: Anna Jodko, Zastosowanie metody impulsowej do pomiarów magnetycznych przy użyciu czujników SQUID (Application of the pulse method to magnetic measurements using SQUID sensors), Warsaw
Supervised Bachelor Thesis
- 2020: Aleksandra Szymańska, Pomiary impulsowe nanostruktur nadprzewodzących (Pulse measurements of superconducting nanostructures), Warsaw
Teaching
- Lectures on the Macroscopic manifestation of quantum mechanics for 5th year students of the Faculty of Physics at Warsaw University of Technology
