Marek Cieplak

Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Born: December 8, 1950, Warsaw, Poland.
Citizenship: Polish.
Martial Status: Married, 2 daughters.

Education

D.Sc., 1984, Warsaw University, Poland
Thesis: Nature of ordering in spin glasses

Ph.D. 1977, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Thesis advisor: Frederic Keffer
Thesis: Theoretical problems in magnetism

M.Sc., 1973, with honors
Physics Department, Warsaw University
Research advisor: Jaroslaw Piasecki
Thesis: Correlation functions in van der Waals fluids

Employment

In Poland

1973-1989 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University

since 1989 Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science
Full Professor since 1995

In the USA

1975-1977 graduate student, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, PA

1981-1983 postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, NJ

summer 1984 visiting professor, Department of Polymer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1987-1989 visiting associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, MD
later research visiting appointments: 1992, 1996, 2001

each year since 1990 visits, at least one month long, at Physics Department, Penn State University, PA; e.g. September 2000 - February 2001 visiting professor

summers 1991-2000 summer lecturing, Physics Department, Rutgers University, NJ

summers 2001-2005 summer lecturing, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, MD

Short term employment in other countries

1978, 1979, 1983 Physics Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

1985 Department od Physics, Universitat Konstanz, Germany

1992 Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

1993, 1994 University of Padova, Italy

1996 CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico

1995, 1997 International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

Other

Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1998

Professor of the Month of June at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, awarder by the Alpha-Kappa-Phi Sorority, July 2001

Member of the executive board of Division of Physics in Life Science
www.dpl.risoe.dk

On the editorial board of "Fractals" and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

four Ph.D. students

eight M.Sc. students

More than 1800 citations, including:
111 for Nature of ordering in spin glasses, J. R. Banavar and M. Cieplak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 832 (1982);
108 for Molecular origins of friction: The force on absorbed layers, M. Cieplak, E. Smith, and M. O. Robbins, Science, 1209 (1994);
101 for Fundamental patterns underlying gene expression profiles: simplicity from complexity, N. S. Holter, M. Mitra, A. Maritan, M. Cieplak, J. R. Banavar, and N. V. Fedoroff, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 8414 (2000);
94 for Critical phenomena in fluid invasion of porous media, N. Martys, M. Cieplak, and M. O. Robbins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1058 (1991)

5 Polish KBN grants

Invited Lectures at Conferences

  1. Conference on Phase Transitions MECO, Bled, Yugoslavia, April 1983: Nature of Ordering in spin glasses.
  2. Workshop on Elementary Excitations and Fluctuations in Magnetic Systems, Sam Miniato, Italy, May 1984: Frustration on fractals.
  3. Polish Conference on Magnetism, Poznan, Poland, June 1984: Nature of ordering in spin glasses.
  4. 58'th Statistical Mechanics Rutgers Meeting, Piscataway, NJ, USA, December 1987, "micro review": Dynamic transitions in fluid flow patterns in porous media.
  5. Workshop on equalibrium Pattern Formation in Growth, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, June 1988: Fluid invasion patterns - from fractals to blobs.
  6. American Physical Society March Meeting, Condensed Matter Division, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1989: Critical Phenomena in Fluid Invasion of Porous Media.
  7. Workshop Surface Disordering: Growth, Roughening and Phase Transitions, Les Houches, France, March 1991: Critical Phenomena in Fluid Invasion: Transitions in Growth Morphology.
  8. Conference Statphys 18, Berlin, Germany, August 1992: Scaling and Phase Transitions in Random Systems.
  9. Conference on Collective Dynamics in Disordered Systems, Aspen, Colorado, January 1993: Critical Phenomena in Fluid Invasion and Magnetic Domain Wall Motion.
  10. March Meeting of the American Physical Society, St. Louis, March 1996, Optimal paths in strongly disordered systems.
  11. MECO'21 Seminar in Statistical Physics and Phase Transitions, Bled, Slovenia, April 1996, Cell dynamics of model proteins, oral contribution.
  12. Workshop on Dynamics of Non-equilibrium Systems at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, August 1996: Optimal paths in strongly disordered systems.
  13. Statistical Mechanics Rutgers Meeting, Piscataway, NJ, USA, December 1996: Cell dynamics of model proteins.
  14. MECO'23 Seminar in Statistical Physics and Phase Transitions, Trieste, Italy, April 1998, Master equation approach to protein folding and kinetic traps.
  15. INTAS-Ukraine Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics, Lvov, Ukraine, May 1998: Master equation approach to protein folding.
  16. International Conference on Percolation and Disordered Systems: Theory and Applications, Giessen, Germany, July 1998, Optimal paths and growth processes.
  17. 11'th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 1998, Kinetics of protein folding.
  18. MECO'24 Seminar in Statistical Physics and Phase Transition, Wittemberg, Germany, March 1999, Scaling of folding properties in model proteins.
  19. NATO Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Budapest, Hungary, May 1999, Applications of statistical mechanics in sub-continuum flows.
  20. American Physical Society March Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, March 2000, Molecular dynamics of flows in the Knudsen regime.
  21. Workshop on "Protein folding: simple models and experiments", Torino, Italy, April 2000, Scaling of folding properties in Go models of proteins.
  22. Third International Colloquium Micro-Tribology 2001, Jastarnia, Poland, August 2001, Molecular dynamics of fluid-solid interfaces.
  23. College on Biophysics: From Molecular Genetics to Structural Biology, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, October 2001, Scaling of folding properties of proteins and Folding and stretching in model proteins.
  24. International Workshop on Complex Systems in Natural and Social Sciences, Torun, Poland, October 2001, Scaling of folding properties in Go models of proteins.
  25. The First KIAS Conference on Protein Structure and Function: Protein Folding in the Post-Genome Era", Seul, Korea, November 2001, Scaling of folding properties of proteins and Folding and stretching in model proteins.
  26. American Physical Society March Meeting, Indianapolis, USA, March 2002, Scaling of folding properties of proteins.
  27. International Discussion Meeting on Stochastic Dynamics in Complex Systems, Konstanz, Germany, April 2002, Scaling of folding properties of proteins.
  28. Conference on Stochastic Processes Applied to Complex Systems, Bydgoszcz, Poland, April 21-23, Scaling of folding properties of proteins.
  29. International Workshop "Randomness and complexity", Eilat, Israel,January 2003, Folding times and mechanical stretching of proteins.
  30. International Workshop on Proteomics: Protein Structure, Function and Interactions, Trieste, Italy, May 2003, Folding times of proteins and Mechanical stretching and contact order of proteins.
  31. Meeting of the Polish Physical Society (Zjazd Fizykow Polskich), Gdansk, September 2003, Folding and stretching of proteins - the role of the native geometry.
    (Zwijanie i rozciaganie bialek - rola geometrii natywnej)
  32. American Physical Society March Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004, Mechanical stretching and contact order of proteins.
  33. Workshop on Bioinformatics, Warsaw Agricultural Universtiy, Warsaw, May 2004, Mechanical stretching of proteins.
  34. Days of Russian Science in Warsaw, Warsaw, October 2004, Mechanical stretching and contact order of proteins.
  35. The International Conference on Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships; Theoretical and Experimental Approaches, Warsaw, Poland, April 2005, Folding and stretching of proteins in simple models.
  36. Summer School on Bioinformatics, Ames, Iowa University, July 29, Mechanical stretching of proteins.
  37. 18'th Marian Smoluchowski Symposium on Statistical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, September 2005, The transition state in protein folding.
  38. 4'th International Colloquium Micro-Tribology 2005, Karwica, Poland, September 2005, Molecular dynamics of fluid flows in nano-structured channels.
  39. BIT05 Bioinformatics Workshop, Torun, Poland, September 2005, Folding, unfolding and mechanical stretching in geometry-based models of proteins.