EDUCATION

1989, Habilitation, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Theory of Resonances in Molecular Photoionization

1981, Ph. D. in Molecular Physics, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Role of Intramolecular Vibrations in Radiationless Decay of Excited Polyatomic Molecules

1977, M. Sc. in Physics, University of Warsaw
Theory of Radiationless Transitions in Molecular Charge-Transfer Complexes

PROFESSIONAL POSITION

2008-present, Professor in the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

1991-2007, Associate Professor in the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

1981-1990, Assistant Professor in the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

1976-1981, Assistant in the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

LONG TERM APPOINTMENTS

2017 -2020, Guest Professor at the Technical University of Munich under Alexander von Humboldt Research Award

1998 - 1999, Mercator Guest Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Duesseldorf, Germany

1994 - Visiting scientist at the Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

1985 - 1986, Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

2014 - 2018, member of Council of the National Science Centre

2013, elected member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

2009, elected member of the Scocitas Scientarum Varsoviensis ,

1990-present, member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Physics of PAS

AWARDS

2018 - Honorary Title TUM Ambassador, Technical University of Munich

2016 - Honorary Hans Fischer Senior Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical University of Munich (TUM IAS)

2016 - Alexander von Humboldt Research Award

2016 - decorated by President of the Republic of Poland by the Polonia Restituta Officer Cross

2009 - Smoluchowski-Warburg Medal of the Polish Physical Society and the German Physical Society

2008 - Copernicus Award (together with prof. Wolfgang Domcke from the Technical University of Munich)

2007 - prize of the Polish Science Foundation (the most prestigious national scientific award) in the pure science for discovery of the molecular mechanism of photostability of biological matter

1990 - annual prize in physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2020 - present, research project Opus of the National Science Center

2012 - 2016, research project Maestro of the National Science Center

2011 - 2014, joint research project Harmonia with the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Erlangen (prof. Michael Thoss)

2006 - 2009 MNiSW-DFG joint research project with the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich (Prof. W. Domcke) entitled: "Photophysics of Organic Photostabilizers: ab initio quantum-chemical calculations and simulation of dynamics". Head of the Polish side.

2001 - 2009, PAS-CNRS joint research project with the Laboratory of Molecular Photophysics, University of Paris-Sud (Dr. Christoph Jouvet)

1990 - 1997, 2000-2006, joint PAD_DFG research project with the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry, Tehcnical University of Munich (Prof. W. Domcke)

1992 - 2005, head of four successive research grants of the Committee for Scientific Research of Poland, Title of the recent project: "Theoretical Investigations on the Mechanisms of Photostability of Organic Molecules"

DIDACTICAL EXPERIENCE

Lecture "Electronic Structure Methods for Excited States: Theory and Practical Aspects", Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Duesseldorf, 1998-1999

Lectures of Quantum Chemistry at the College of Science in Warsaw, 1995-2002