I have PhD and MS degrees in physics from the Jagiellonian University. I have gained 8 years of experience as a university researcher (two periods: 1996-1999 and 2003-2007) at the Department of Physics of the Jagiellonian University (Poland) and a few months at the Department of Physics of UC Berkeley.
Other type of my professional activity is related to engineering. I worked as a design engineer for 8 years (Geometrics, San Jose, California and Transcom International, Poland) and as a manufacturing engineer for 2 years (Lexel Laser, Fremont, CA).
I gained experience in science and in engineering. My speciality is AMO (Atomic, molecular and optical) physics and photonic/optical engineering. AMO supports in natural way
photonic and optical engineering. These activities are mutually strongly connected. My professional experience breaks down almost fifty-fifty
between scientific work and engineering work. Furthermore, scientific activity and engineering activity intertwine
each other in time. This situation ensures constant flow of experience and knowledge between my scientific and engineering skills and abilities.
To add some dynamics to this description I will shortly describe timeline of my professional career. My professional activity started actually at the last two years of my M.S. degree program. During this time I conducted independently the set of experiments (scientific project supported by grant of polish government) in the field of laser spectroscopy. I finished my M.S. diploma projects very successfully with the experimental results published in prestigious physics journals:
"Effective Optical Anisotropy in Evanescent Wave Propagation in Atomic Vapor"
Physical Review A, vol. 57, Number 6, p. 4079 (1998).
"Evanescent Light-Atom Interaction Detected by Optogalvanic Effect"
Optics Communications 150, p. 106 (1998).
After completing MS program I started work at the Jagiellonian University for one year as a junior scientist. I used this opportunity and I gathered a lot of experience as a researcher and as an academic teacher and student program coordinator. This part of my professional experience has a detailed description in my professional profile:
October 1997-May 1999/JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY Cracow, Poland/RESEARCHER (AMO PHYSICS).
I took very active part in several scientific projects. This work was also associated with publications in international physics journals. I to took part in the french-polish scientific project between the Jagiellonian University and the Kastler Brossel Laboratory-Polarized gases group (France). During this time I worked practically independently in my lab and I had a chance to gather broad experimental work experience in short amount of time. It was very intensive research program. Among others activities I was participating in building a custom dye laser system, containing optical amplifier and SHG unit. The system was used in molecular spectroscopy experiments - spectroscopy of van der Waals molecules in supersonic beam.
After completing one year of work as a junior researcher I passed exams for PhD program and continued my research program. Because of personal issues in the middle of the first year of my PhD program I had to abandon it.
I continued my professional activity in Lexel Laser (Fremont, California) as an engineer, dealing with the manufacturing of Argon and Krypton laser tubes. I found myself very fast in the new role and I started gathering specific requirements necessary in manufacturing. I had a lot of different responsibilities: taking active part in laser tubes production, solving problems related to manufacturing processes, taking care of complex high-vacuum stations, performing some research related to customization of laser systems, maintaining manufacturing workstations, writing documentation of manufacturing procedures, parts inspections etc.
After two years of work my company was dissolved and I decided to go back to Poland to complete the PhD program. I had to build (together with another PhD student) experimental system of the Magneto-optical-Trap (MOT) to utilize special methods related to investigation of ultra-cold atoms, cooled and trapped by means of laser forces. During this program I extended significantly my experience in experimental AMO physics and also in theoretical physics. I had to establish a theoretical model for physical system investigated in the experiment. Using this model I had to perform computer-based numerical simulation to explain results obtained in the experiment. The project ended with the publication in Physical Review A:
I defended my Doctoral thesis in July 2007.
During the last year of my PhD program I also worked (with my two colleagues - physicists) as a contractor-design engineer for polish Company Transcom International. We had to design a human breath generator for precise calibration of mobile breath detectors used by police. Transcom is distributing this mobile detectors in Poland and is responsible for calibrating them regularly. It was very challenging engineering program. During this project I invented special type of photonic device for alcohol detection and special type of electro-mechanical air pressure release
valve. I also developed my skills as a mechanical engineer: I designed and constructed mechanical frame for the device. I also made the whole technical drawings for the documentation of the device used AUTOCAD software.
After returning to California I started working in the group (former members and visitors) of professor Dmitry Budker at the Department of Physics of UC Berkeley. I was helping in the construction of novel type of atomic magnetometer. I was building certain electronic module for the system.
In march 2008 I started work in Geometrics as a Design Engineer/Instrumentation Physicist. Work in Geometrics was the most intense part of my professional career. And again, I was doing engineering work - inventing and designing atomic magnetometer and performing research - during joined Geometrics-NIST experiment. As a design engineer I created over 5 different versions of prototype of the novel type of atomic magnetometer. As a co-inventor I became a US patent 9,726,626 and 9,726,733 co-author. Using certain version of my atomic magnetometer prototype I supervised a mini manufacturing activity, building array of 14 magnetometers. The magnetometers were used to arrange 2D array of 6 gradiometers. During my work in Geometrics I was involved in various engineering projects. In January of 2015 company decided to terminate service of a group of professionals, including me.
In the year 2016 I decided to start my private research program in the specific field of cybernetics sciences called metacybernetics. This approach is developed only in Poland by a group of scientists associated in the organization called: Narodowa Akademia Informacyjna NAI
, which can be translated as National Informatics Academy. Metacybernetics is based on so called Qualitative Theory of Information
, established by polish cybernetics science specialist prof. Marian Mazur. Metacybernetics can be used very effectively in education, science, engineering, projects management, consulting, talents
recruitment, personal coaching, human resources and others. I am developing my version of metacybernetics, that can be used in a new approach to photonic engineering. Optical and photonic engineering requires a new information-system
approach to utilize the new technology based on meta-materials/meta-surfaces and 3D printing of optical/photonic components. In my opinion new approach to engineering based on metacybernetics (which I call cybernetic engineering
) is necessary to utilize effectively mentioned above technological advances in photonics.