Przemysław Piekarz, PhD
Head of Department of Computational Materials Science
Institute of Nuclear Physics
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Radzikowskiego 152
31-342 Krakow, Poland
tel: +48 12 66 28 281
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www: http://wolf.ifj.edu.pl/~piekarz/
Scientific background
1989--1994 -- studies of physics at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
1995--1999 -- Ph. D. studies at Jagiellonian University.
1999 -- Ph.D. in physics, thesis: "Electron-phonon interaction in the models of high temperature superconductors".
2000 -- worked in the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków.
2001--2003 -- Postdoc Research in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
2010 -- habilitation "Lattice dynamics in strongly correlated d- and f-electron metals"
2011 -- head of Department of Computational Materials Science, Institute of Nuclear Physics
Fields of research
- lattice dynamics
- strongly correlated systems
- electron-phonon interaction
- phase transitions
- superconductivity
- f-electron systems
- nanostructures
Articles
Annual Report Polish Academy of Sciences 2009
Verwey transition in magnetite: Cooperative electron-phonon scenario
Seminars
Mechanism of the Verwey phase transition in magnetite (Kraków, 2007)
Od fulerenu do grafenu: niezwykłe własności nanostruktur węglowych (Kraków, 2010)
Podstawy obliczeń ab initio (Kraków, 2016)
Ab initio studies of lattice dynamics in strongly correlated systems (Tenerife, 2016)