Henryk Turski

Witold Trzeciakowski was born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1952. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in solid-state physics from Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, in 1974 and 1980, respectively, and the Habilitation degree from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, in 1989. From 1974 to 1980, he was a Teaching Assistant with the Department of Physics, Warsaw University, and since 1980, he has been a Research Scientist with the Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 1986–1989, he was a Research Associate with the Division of Physics, National Research Council Canada, and with the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA. In 1991, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Physics, University of Florence, Italy, in 1993, for a period of 9 months, with the Laboratory of Microelectronics, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, in 1997, for a period of one year, with the Department of Physics, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, for a period of six months. Initially, he performed theoretical modeling of semiconductors. His recent research interests include semiconductor laser diodes and their applications. Prof. Trzeciakowski is a Referee for Physical Review B, Physica Status Solidi, and other journals. He is a member of Polish Sensor Society. He received the title of Professor from Polish Academy of Sciences in 2000.