Professor Marek Szymonski
Education:
  • 1973 - M.Sc. in Physics, Inst. Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
  • 1978 - Ph.D. , Inst. Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
  • 1982 - Higher doctoral degree (habilitation), Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
  • 1991 - Full Professor , Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Positions held:
  • Vice-Rector of the Jagiellonian University (1993-1999).
  • Chairman, Supervisory Board "Krakow Centre for Advanced Technologies" (1998-1999).
  • Chairman, Council for the Regional Laboratory for Physicochemical Analysis, Jagiellonian University (from 1999).
  • Member, Scientific Board of the Institute of Catalysis and Physicochemistry of Surfaces, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (from 1996).
  • Scientific Director, Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University (1984-88).
  • President, Polish Vacuum Society (1996-1998).
  • President Elect, Polish Vacuum Society (from 2001).
Honors and awards:
  • Member of the "Steering Committee" of the European Science Foundation "ESF/PESC Scientific Programme Nanotribology - NATRIBO".
  • Principal Coordinator of NATO Co-operative Linkage Programme "NANO-SCALE MODIFICATION OF IONIC SURFACES INDUCED BY ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS".
  • Councillor (1992-1998) and Alternate Councillor (from 2001) to the Executive Council of the Int. Union for Vacuum Science, Technology and Applications.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of "Surface Science Division - Int. Union for Vacuum Science, Technology and Applications" (1995-2001).
  • 1979, 1982 - The awards of the Polish Minister of National Education.
 
Acting Member of the Conference Steering Committee of:
  • International Workshop on Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions.
  • European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS).
  • International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids.
Chairman of Organising Committees:
  • 7th International Workshop on Inelastic Ion Surface Collisions (1987).
  • International Workshop on Electronic Excitations at Surfaces of Halides (1993).
  • 6th International Workshop on Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions (1994).
  • International Conference "The World of New Technologies" (1996).
  • International Conference "Research at Central and East European Universities" (1997).
  • International Symposium on Nanoscale Surface Modification (1998).
  • 20th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-20) (2001).
 
Selected publications:
  1. J. Kolodziej and M. Szymonski, Hot Carrier Transport Processes in Stimulated Desorption of Alkali Halides, Phys. Rev. B, 58 (1998) 13204.
  2. J. Kolodziej, P. Czuba, P. Piatkowski, M. Szymonski, Angle-resolved Auger Electron Emission from Ion-bombarded NaCl Surface, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. B 160 (2000) 21.
  3. B. Such, P. Czuba, P. Piatkowski, M. Szymonski, AFM Studies of Electron-Stimulated Desorption Process of KBr (001) Surface, Surface Science 451 (2000) 203.
  4. B. Such, J. Kolodziej, P. Czuba, F. Krok, P. Piatkowski, P. Struski and M. Szymonski, Surface Topography Dependent Desorption of Alkali Halides, Physical Review Letters 85 (2000) 2621.
  5. M. Szymonski, J. Kolodziej, B. Such, P. Piątkowski, P. Struski, P. Czuba, F. Krok, Nano - Scale Modification of Ionic Surfaces Induced by Electronic Transitions, Progress in Surface Science 67 (2001) 123.