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Przemysław Wojciech Wachulak
PRESENT POSITION:
Rector-Commandant of the Military University of Technology and Full professor of Technical Sciences at the Institute of Optoelectronics (IOE), Military University of Technology (IOE MUT), Warsaw, Poland, since August 2020.
EDUCATION and SCIENTIFIC CAREER:
2020-2021: Postgraduate Studies in Defense Policy (senior military course) (pl. Podyplomowe Studia Polityki Obronnej PSPO), War Studies Academy, 2021.
2018: Full Professor of Technical Sciences, by the decision of the President of Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, July 30th, 2018.
2013: D.Sc. in Physics (habilitation) from Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, habilitation dissertation entitled “Imaging in the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum”, physical sciences, discipline: physics, January 21st, 2013.
2012: Postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University, Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Fort Collins, CO, USA, executor of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Program, HDTRA-1-08-10-BRCWMD-BAA, New concepts in Nano-scale Chemical and Biological Sensing (Thrust 1), “Single molecule detection for countering WMD using nano-mechanical resonator arrays”.
2010: Postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University, Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology, Fort Collins, CO, USA, executor of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Program, HDTRA-1-08-10-BRCWMD-BAA, New concepts in Nano-scale Chemical and Biological Sensing (Thrust 1), “Single molecule detection for countering WMD using nano-mechanical resonator arrays”.
2009: Ph.D. nostrification at Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology on June 1st, 2009.
2005-2008: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, October 2008. Graduated with GPA 3.94/4.00. Thesis subject: “Applications of extreme ultraviolet compact lasers to nanopatterning and high resolution holographic imaging”, December 20th, 2008.
2003-2004: Postgraduates studies on European Integration and International Security. Military University of Technology; Faculty of Cybernetics, Warsaw.
1999-2004: M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laser Technology, Warsaw, Poland, June 2004. Graduated from Military University of Technology (MUT) with GPA of 4.81/5.00. M. Sc. Thesis subject: “Parametric oscillator pumped inside laser cavity with Q-switch”.
PRACTICES, STUDIES, EXCHANGE, and EXPERIMENTS ABROAD:
2019: Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, the interaction of TW femtosecond (1J, 25fs, YETI 40) laser pulses with double stream gas puff target, hard X-ray and gamma radiation generation from gas and cluster targets (2 weeks)
2016: joint experiment at Prague Astrix Laser System (PALS) related to SXR plasma photoionization, DNA plasmid and lipid damage due to EUV and SXR radiation and magnetic properties of CoPt exposed to SXR radiation, emitted from a double stream gas puff target, irradiated with 1.3mm wavelength PALS beam (2 weeks)
2014: joint experiment at Prague Astrix Laser System (PALS) in the frame of Laserlab Europe program related to SXR plasma photoionization (3 weeks)
2012: joint experiment at Prague Astrix Laser System (PALS) in the frame of Laserlab Europe program (1 week)
2012: postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, (2 months)
2010: postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, (3 months)
2005-2008: Ph.D. studies at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, (3 years, 10 months)
2003: scientific practice in Max – Born Institute, Berlin, Germany, (2 weeks)
2002: scientific practice in Institute of Optoelectronics MUT, Warsaw, (3 weeks)
2002: practice in District Technical Workshop, Modlin, (2 weeks)
2001: scientific practice in Institute of Telecommunication MUT, Warsaw, (4 weeks)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
· American Chemical Society (ACS) – 2019-2020
· Academy of Young Scientists (Akademia Młodych Uczonych), Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016-2021
· Committee of Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2016-2020
· Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society – member since 2009
· European Optical Society – member since 2010
· Optical Society of America – member 2006-2010
· American Physical Society – member 2006-2008
· The International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE – member 2007-2008
· American Vacuum Society – member 2007-2010
OTHER SOCIETIES:
· Torr Society - lifetime membership
· Tensa Society - lifetime membership
· International High IQ Society - lifetime membership
