Members

Prof. Wojciech Gadomski
Head of the group
Research field:
  • Femtosecond dynamics of liquids
  • Self-organizing systems
  • Crystal lattice dynamics
  • Femtosecond dynamics in liquids and unorganized systems
  • Interaction of laser radiation with matter: nonlinear light propagation in crystals and liquids, stimulated light scatterings
  • Optical detection of molecular dynamics: femtosecond Kerr effect, light scattering in self-organizing systems
  • Instabilities and chaos in nonlinear optical systems
  • Laser physics -laser dynamics; lasers in nano-scale, mode locking, ultra short pulses
  • Chaotic dynamics of laser system, laser with feedback, control of chaos
Contact:

+48 22 55 26776
Assoc. Prof. Bożena Ratajska-Gadomska
Research field:
  • Femtosecond dynamics of liquids
  • Self-organizing systems
  • Crystal lattice dynamics
  • Femtosecond dynamics in liquids and unorganized systems
  • Interaction of laser radiation with matter: nonlinear light propagation in crystals and liquids, stimulated light scatterings
  • Optical detection of molecular dynamics: femtosecond Kerr effect, light scattering in self-organizing systems
  • Instabilities and chaos in nonlinear optical systems
  • Laser physics -laser dynamics; lasers in nano-scale, mode locking, ultra short pulses
  • Chaotic dynamics of laser system, laser with feedback, control of chaos
Contact:

+48 22 55 26776
PhD Kamil Polok
Assistant professor
Research field:
  • Femtosecond optical Kerr effect
  • Femtosecond transient absorption
  • Molecular dynamics simulations
  • Local structure and dynamics in solvents
  • Ionic liquids
  • Deep eutectic solvents
  • Coherent phonons in crystals
  • Scientific software development
  • CUDA programming
Contact:

+48 22 55 26777
MSc Daria Larowska-Zarych
Laser specialist
Research field:
  • Photochemistry and photocatalysis of nanomaterials
  • Photochemistry and photophysics of porphyrins
  • Synthesis and characterization of nanostructures based on 2D materials
  • Photoinduced Electron Transfer processes
  • Femtosecond transient absorption
Contact:
+48 22 55 26777
Eng. Karolina Skała
Masters student
Research field:
  • Construction of spectroscopic instruments
  • Development of LabView software
  • Dye photophysics
  • Photodynamics of metallic nanoparticles
  • Femtosecond transient absorption
Contact:
+48 22 55 26777

Former members

PhD Piotr Piątkowski
Former assistant professor
Research field:
  • Perovskite solar cells
  • Synthesis of quantum dots
  • Optical properties of quantum dots
  • Femtosecond transient absorption
  • Femtosecond terahertz spectroscopy
  • Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy
  • Femtosecond optical Kerr effect
MSc. Adam Świątek
Former PhD student
Research field:
  • Quantum mechanical calculations
  • Classical molecular dynamics
  • Hydrogen bonds
MSc. Marzena Kaliszewska
Former MSc. student
Employee at Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Research field:
  • Perovskite solar cells
  • Perovskite synthesis
MSc. Nishith Maity
Former visiting PhD student from University of Lille
PhD student at University of Lille
Research field:
  • Ionic liquids
  • Dye solar cells
MSc. Matthieu Beisert
Former visiting MSc. student from University of Lille
Research field:
  • Ionic liquids
  • Molecular dynamics simulations
MSc. Jadwiga Konarska
Former PhD student
Project Manager at Grupa Azoty S.A.
Research field:
  • Transient transmission
  • Transient absorption
  • Isotope effect in molecular liquids
Grzegorz Pudłowski
Former MSc. student
Research field:
  • Quantum mechanical calculations
  • Classical molecular dynamics
  • Raman spectroscopy
MSc. Aleksandra Henig
Former MSc. student
Research field:
  • Transient absorbtion
  • Quantum dots
PhD Tomasz Kardaś
Former PhD student
Science Director at Fluence
Research field:
  • Construction of femtosecond laser oscillators
  • Laser system computer simulations
  • Ultrafast dynamics of coherent phonons