BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Office address:
International Research Centre MagTop, al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02 668 Warszawa, Poland
phone +48.22.843-5324, fax +48.22.847-5224, e-mail: dietl@MagTop.ifpan.edu.pl
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Tomasz Dietl
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DEGREES AND TITLES
- M.S.: Department of Physics, University of Warsaw (1973)
- Ph.D. : Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (1977)
- Habilitation: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (1983)
- Professor, scientific title and position at Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (1990)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Present Positions:
- President of the management board and a group leader at the Research Foundation MagTop – International Centre for Interfacing Magnetism and Superconductivity with Topological Matter
- Professor and head of the Group of Spin Phenomena Physics, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Warsaw
- Principal investigator at Advanced Materials Research Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai
Past Positions:
- 1973–1976 — PhD Student, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (IF PAN)
- 1976–1977 — Research Assistant, IF PAN
- 1978 — French Government Scholarschip, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (c/o prof. I. Solomon, 10 months)
- 1979–1983 — Research Associate, Institute of Physics, PAS, 1986-1990, docent
- 1984–1985 — Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Physik-Department Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany (c/o prof. F. Koch, 14 months)
- 1986–2003 — head – Group of Low Temperature Physics, IF PAN
- 1990— present Ordinary Professor, IF PAN
- 1988, 89 — Visiting Scientist, Francis Bitter Magnet Lab, MIT, Cambridge, USA (6 weeks)
- 1991–92, 1996–98 — Visiting Professor, J. Kepler Univ., Linz, Austria (13 months in total)
- 1993–2000 — Visiting Professor, J. Fourier Univ. Grenoble, France (10 months in total)
- 1993–2001 — Founding member and Professor, College of Science, Warsaw
- 1995–1996 — Deputy Rector, College of Science, Warsaw
- 1999 — Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan (12 months)
- 2003 — Humboldt Research Award at Regensburg University, Germany (7 months)
- 2004–2017 — Founder and head – Laboratory of Cryogenic and Spintronic Research and Group of Spin Phenomena Physics, IF PAN
- 2004–present — Founder and head – Group of Spin Phenomena Physics, IF PAN
- 2004–2016 — part-time appointment at Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw
- 2011–2014 — member of Scientific Council of European Research Council (ERC)
- 2012–2014 — member of Steering Committee of European Research Council (ERC)
- 2012–present — appointment as a professor and principal investigator at World Premier Institute – Advanced Materials Research Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai (part-time)
- 2017–present — President of the management board and a group leader at the Research Foundation MagTop – International Centre for Interfacing Magnetism and Superconductivity with Topological Matter, funded by a grant from the Foundation for Polish Science, carried out from the funds of the European Regional Development Fund under the Smart Growth Operational Programme (SG OP), Priority Axis 4: Increasing the research potential, Measure 4.3: International Research Agendas
DISTINCTIONS
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie Award, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1997
- Member of Polish Academy of Sciences, 1998–; Ordinary Member, 2010 —
- Chartered Physicist, 2000— , and fellow 2004– , The Institute of Physics, UK
- Humboldt Research Award, Germany, 2003
- Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize, 2005 (with David D. Awschalom and Hideo Ohno)
- Prize of Foundation for Polish Science, 2006
- Ordinary Member of Science Society of Warsaw, 2009—
- Member of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009—
- Marian Smoluchowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society, 2010
- Member of Academia Europaea, 2011—
- Member of the Scientific Council and Steering Committee of the European Research Council (ERC),
2011–2014
- Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, The President of Poland, 2013
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2015
PLENARY AND SEMIPLENARY TALKS AT MULTISESSION CONFERENCES
e.g., E-MRS Fall Meeting (Warsaw, 2004, 2010); Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (2008); European Physical Society Meetings (Bern 2005, Prague 2004, Budapest 2002); 27th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (Flagstaff 2004); Joint European Magnetic Symposia (Dresden 2003); 20th International Conference on Magnetism (Barcelona 2015).
EXECUTED RESEARCH PROJECTS (in all projects serving as PI/local person in charge)
MagTop, International Research Agenda Programme, Foundation for Polish Science (2017-2021); MAESTRO project of National Science Centre, Poland (2012-2017); FunDMS; European Research Council, Advanced Grant (ERC-2008-AdG-227690) (2008-2013); InTechFun (Innovative Economy Operational Programme, Structural Funds, EC (2008-2013); SPINTRA, European Science Foundation CRP (2006 – 2009); NANOSPIN EC FP6 IST project (2006-2008); SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICS, Ohno ERATO Project of Japan Science and Technology Agency (2003-2008); FENIKS EC FP5 GROWTH project (2002-2005); AMORE EC FP5 GROWTH project (2002-2003); Professor Subsidy of the Foundation for Polish Science (2000-2002); five successive three years’ local projects of Ministry of Science (1991-2005)
participation in bilateral collaboration projects and European networks:
PL-AU “Ost-West”; PL-FR “Polonium”, PL-USA – Maria Curie Fund; PHANTOMS network in mesoscopic physics (since 1993); Nanoscale Semiconductor Spintronics (SemiSpinNet) within the Maria Curie Initial Training Networks Action (2009-2012).
PUBLICATIONS
since 1975: (i) over 350 English peer-reviewed research papers, (ii) over 100 English reviews in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and encyclopaedia, (iii) over 30 popularizing articles in Polish; over 150 invited talks at international meetings, conferences, schools; total citation index: over 18 000; h-factor: over 50.
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Revelation of charge transport peculiarities in zero- and narrow-gap gap semiconductors and alloys
- Elucidation of difference between momentum relaxation and quantum life time in quantum transport
- Demonstration of role of surface conductance in hydrogenated a-Si
- Theory of bound magnetic polarons and its thermodynamic, optical, transport, and dynamic signatures
- Pioneering field-effect and quantum Hall effect studies of dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS)
- Discovery of new spin effects in localisation phenomena, metal-insulator transition, universal conductance fluctuations, and quantum noise in doped semiconductors, DMS, and their nanostructures
- Elucidation of the origin of sp-d interactions and strong coupling effects in DMS
- Theory of hole-mediated ferromagnetism and the origin of high temperature ferromagnetism in DMS
- Semiconductor spintronics of topological materials, non-magnetic semiconductors, dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors, and hybrid ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor structures
EDUCATION/TEACHING/TRAINNG ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Co-foundation and co-organisation of the College of Science
- Four of former PhD students completed habilitation in physics, another one is deputy director of Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- In-house training of PhD students from abroad (Austria, France, Germany, UK, Ukraine).
OTHER SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- European Physical Society: Low Temperature Section, Board Member, 1999—present
- International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP): Member of Low Temperature Commission (C5), 2003-08; Associated Member of Semiconductor Commission (C8), 2003-08
- Editorial Boards: Postępy Fizyki 1986—2002; Semicond. Sci. Technology 2001—2016; J. Magn. Magn. Materials 2008—2010; Phys. Rev. B 2012—present
Scientific Committees of International Conferences and Schools
- International School on Physics of Semiconducting Compounds, Jaszowiec, Poland ’88-’97; 1989 (chair), ’99-01; ’04-’07; ’12-’15
- International School on Semiconductors, Alushta, Ukraine ’93-’97
- International Conference on High Magnetic Fields in Semiconductor Physics, Cambridge MIT, USA ’94; Nijmegen, The Netherlands ’98
- The First International Conference on Low Dimensional Structures and Devices, Singapore ’95
- International Conferences on Localization and Quantum Transport in Solids, Jaszowiec, Poland ’96 (chair); Hamburg ’99; Tokyo ’02
- International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors (IUPAP), Jerusalem ‘98; Osaka ‘00; Flagstaff, USA ’04; Vienna ’06; Rio de Janeiro ’08; Seoul ’10, Zurich ’12
- International School of Theoretical Physics (organized by Silesian University), Ustroń, Poland, 1998, 2004, 2006
- International Conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems, Ottawa, ’99; Prague ’01; Nara ’03; Kobe ’09; Tallahassee ’11; Sendai ’15.
- International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (IUPAP), Helsinki, Finland ’99, Kyoto, Japan, ’02, Orlando, USA, ’05; Amsterdam ’08; Beijing ’11; Goteborg‘18
- International Conference on Magnetism (IUPAP) Seoul ’12; Barcelona’15; San Francisco ‘18
- International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures, Linz, Austria ’01, Nara Japan ’03, Kobe’09, Tallahassee ’11, Wrocław ’13 (chair), Sendai ’15; College Park’17
- International Conference and School on Semiconductor Spintronics and Quantum Information Technology, SpinTech II-VI, Brugge, Belgium ’03; Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan ’05; Malibu, Hawaii, USA ’07; Kraków, ’09 (chair); Matsue, Japan ’11; Chicago ’13; Basel ‘15; Fukuoka’17
- International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Toulouse, France ’02; Cancun, Mexico ’04; Istanbul, Turkey ’06; Dresden ‘12.
- International Conference on Physics and Applications of Spin-related Phenomena in Semiconductors, Würzburg, Germany ’02; Santa Barbara, USA ’04; Sendai, Japan ’06; Tokyo ’10; Eidhoven ’12.
- AFSOR Workshop on Ferromagnetic Semiconductors, Edinburgh, Scotland, ’05 (chair).
- 4th Forum on New Materials (within 11th CIMEC) Acireale, Sicily, Italy ’06.
- Joint European Magnetic Symposia, San Sebastian, Spain ’06, Parma ’13
- Fall Meeting of European Materials Society Meeting, Warsaw, Poland ’06, ’11, ’14, ’16, ’17 (symposium chair)
- March Meeting of American Physical Society, Denver, Co, USA ’07