Prof. dr hab. Wojciech Knap obtained his master and PhD degrees from Faculty of Physics – University of Warsaw Poland. His PhD concerned the Terahertz (Far infrared) properties of narrow gap semiconductors HgTe and InSb. After his PhD degree (1985) he obtained the position of permanent assistant professor at the University of Warsaw in the Department of Solid State Physics. In 1987 he moved to France to work as the assistant professor at the University of Montpellier, Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Toulouse Pulsed High Magnetic Field Laboratory. In 1992 he obtained a permanent position at French National Centre for Scientific Research – CNRS – Montpellier. He worked as a visiting researcher at joined USA–Japan Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY and Tohoku University Sendai Japan.

Researcher unique identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4537-8712
List of the most important publications: https://centera.eu/publications_wk/

Since 25th February 2020 he has become the professor of Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences;
September 2015- 2020 – assistant professor;
Deputy Head of laboratory TeraGaN – at the Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS;
PhD (Semiconductor Physics) Institute of Physics PAS (2004);
Bachelor&Master of Science in Engineering in the field of microelectronics and semiconductor instruments;
Diploma with Honors, St. Petersburg, Russia (1995);

MSc Anna Krynska received master’s degree from the Faculty of Management, Bialystok University of Technology. In the years 2008 – 2019 she worked at the Bialystok University of Technology, leading, among others: doctoral studies, Erasmus program. She also dealt with the administrative service of the Foreign Language Center PB. She completed post-graduate studies in European Union Project Management.

PhD Lech Trzeciak has a strong biomedical background, having graduated from Warsaw University of Medicine as a medical doctor and working in the profession for several years and simultaneously doing research in biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics. Visited St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1991, University of Washington in 1994-1995 as Fulbright Scholar and Institute of Virology in Koln 2014. Obtained PhD (in genetics of cancer) in 1999. Completed postgraduate studies in biostatistics at Medical University of Łódź in 2014. Co-authored 21 papers in peer-review journals, h=12. Worked also in the field of dissemination and popularization as an editor of medical textbooks and an editor, author and translator for Polish edition of “Scientific American”. Recently turned to research management, specializing in European-funded multinational projects and applications.

Prof. IHPP PAS Alvydas Lisauskas received the Diploma in physics from Vilnius University in 1995, and the PhD degree from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in 2001. In 2002, he joined the Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Terahertz Physics Group at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, working on novel semiconductor devices for THz applications.
From 2014, he is a professor and leading researcher at Vilnius University. From 2014 till 2016 he was a head of joint research laboratory on electrical fluctuations established between the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology and Vilnius University. Since February 2019, he joined CENTERA Project of the Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS, where he is leading a workgroup on THz electronics.

Prof. dr hab. eng. Thomas Skotnicki was working for France Telecom from 1985 till 1999 when he joined STMicroelectronics. He became the first STMicroelectronics Company Fellow and Technical Vice-President. He invented the UTBB FDSOI structure (in production at STMicroelectronics, GF and Samsung). Today he is the Co-Leader of the CENTERA project (International Research Agenda funded by Foundation for Polish Science) and Professor at the Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS, His PhD concerned the Terahertz (far-infrared), as well as in Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

Theoretical support

Prof. dr hab. Jacek A. Majewski specializes in theoretical and computational nanoscience.
He obtained his master’s degree in theoretical physics from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. Then he obtained his Ph.D. degree (1981) and Habilitation (1990) from the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences. After Ph.D., he holds scientific positions at the Institute of Physics PAS (1981-1988), Karl-Franzes Universität Graz (1984 -1986 and 1988 -1990), professor position at Walter Schottky Institute and Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Munich (1990 – 2004), and since 2004 is a professor at Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.

Closely collaborating with CENTERA, Prof. Valentin Kachorovskii was born in Leningrad, Russia, in 1962. He received the Ph.D. degree in semiconductor physics from the A.F Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1989. He is currently a Senior Researcher in the Department of the Theory of Electrical and Optical Phenomena in Semiconductors, the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute.
He has authored or co-authored over 120 scientific articles published in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include transport in disordered systems, spin-dependent phenomena in low-dimensional structures, dynamics of plasma waves, and terahertz electronics.

Prof. IHPP PAS Sergey L. Rumyantsev received the M.S.E.E. degree from Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute in Petersburg in 1977, the PhD degree in physics from the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute in 1986, and Mathematics in 1986, and the D.Sc. (Habilitation) degree in electronics from the A.F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, Leningrad, in 1996.
From 1977 to 1980, he was working in the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute. From 1977 to 1989, he was working with Industrial and Scientific Corporation “Svetlana.” From 1989 to 2018, he is a Research Fellow of the A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute. From 1999 to 2018 he was a prof. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. From 2018 he is a professor of Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Teodor Narytnik graduated from the Kyiv University of Technology, the Faculty of Radioelectronics, in semiconductors and dielectrics. He obtained a doctorate in technical sciences, and defended his master’s thesis in 1979 in a special Scientific Council of the Research Institute “Istok” (Russian Federation) after completing postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Radiophysics of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. His research was devoted to paraelectric active elements for use in radio-electronic devices and special-purpose systems. The work is focused on the study of radio-electronic devices and systems, dielectronic and microelectronics, microwave technology, and terahertz telecommunication technologies.

Prof. Ernest Arushanov received the Diploma in physics with Honors from  Chisinau State University in 1963. Then he obtained his Ph.D. degree (1969) and Habilitation (1984) from the Institute of Applied Physics Academy of Sciences of Moldova (IAP ASM). He worked as a researcher (1967-1986), deputy director (1988-1997), and head of laboratory (1986 to present) in IAP ASM. In 1989 he became a professor, in 1992 he was elected as a corresponding member, and in 2000 as an academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Paweł Bajurko received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication from Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in 2004 and 2012, respectively. Since 2012 he has been an assistant professor at WUT. In 2022 he joined the Institute of High Pressure Physics. His research interests include microwave and millimeter wave measurement techniques, material characterization, antenna design, and wireless localization. In the CENTERA project, he is involved in the design and measurement examination of GaN-based devices operating from microwave to sub-THz frequency range.

Maciej Haras, PhD Eng., was born in Gdańsk, Poland in 1984. He obtained M. Eng in power electronics at Gdańsk University of Technology and at Polytechnique de Grenoble (2008), PhD in nanotechnology at Université Lille-1 (2016) for investigation of silicon-based thermoelectric generators, awarded with the best PhD prize from Université Catholique de Lille.
Joined STMicroelectronics R&D (2011) working on energy harvesting. In 2014 he joined IEMN and investigated CMOS compatible thermoelectric generators and mechanical properties of silicon nanowire . Currently he is the assistant professor at Institute of High Pressure Physics (UNIPRESS), Polish Academy of Sciences and at Warsaw University of Technology.

Kamil Stelmaszczyk, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, where he received his doctorate in physics in 2003. In 2004-2005, he received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Free University of Berlin in the group of Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Ludger Wöste, where he conducted his research on saturable optical spatial solitons in gases, in particular on the effect of supercontinuum generation, obtaining a postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in 2012. He worked in leading scientific institutions in Germany, e. g., Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Free University of Berlin, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf or Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Since 2019 he has been associated with the Center for Terahertz Research and Application CENTERA in Warsaw.

PhD eng. Cezary Kolacinski studied at Warsaw University of Technology and obtained MSc degree in 2013. After graduation, he joined Institute of Electron Technology as IC Design Engineer. Simultaneously, he started PhD study in the field of low-noise THz readout circuits. This study ended in 2017 with successful defense of the doctoral dissertation entitled “Multichannel, Integrated Readout Systems for FET-based THz Detectors Working with Unmodulated THz Beam”. In the beginning of 2020 Cezary joined NL-11 Lab in IHPP PAS and CENTERA team. Currently he is working on exploration of high-frequency limits of Field Effect Transistors and Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors.

Jacek Przybytek obtained PhD from the University of Warsaw in experimental solid state physics. Expertise in electronic properties of materials and electronic devices under extreme conditions of cryogenic temperature, high hydrostatic pressure and high magnetic field. He carried out fundamental as well as applied research – among others optical end electronic properties of deep defects, noise optimization of Hall effect GaAlAs/GaAs-based magnetic sensors at the industrial level (Marie Curie Industrial Host Fellowship in Montrouge Technology Center of Schlumberger: 2000-2002). Special interest in fluctuation phenomena in solids and solid state devices in relationship to fundamental scattering, generation-recombination and relaxation processes in solids (e.g. origins of electronic noise in resonant tunneling diods and electronic transport and noise in manganites).

PhD Dmitriy Yavorskiy has recently defended his thesis at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. He was doing his research studies in THz Lab Group led by professor Jerzy Lusakowski, who was also supervising his PhD thesis. All previous and current work is mostly related to the physical phenomenons of THz detectors and emitters such as a magnetoplasma excitation in a 2DEG, cyclotron transitions, Gunn effect or Smith-Purcell effect. He has built many experimental setups to study detection and emission of semiconductor structures and devices from silicon, GaAs, GaN and CdTe bulk materials and 2D systems. He has vast experience in a wide range of various measurements techniques, like Terahertz Magnetospectroscopy, Terahertz Photoconductivity, Terahertz emission and Transport measurements at cryogenic or room temperatures and high magnetic fields.

PhD Marcin Białek has defended his PhD in Physics in 2016 at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His thesis concerned magnetoplasmon resonances in high electron mobility two-dimension electron gas in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Until 2022, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. There, his research concerned THz spectroscopy of antiferromagnetic resonance and coupling of it to electromagnetic cavity modes.

Deepak Kala is a skilled bionanotechnologist with expertise in molecular diagnostics, nanoparticle production, and the use of nanoparticles in constructing electrochemical platforms for biosensing applications. He holds a Bachelor’s (B.Tech) and Master’s (M.Tech) degree in Biotechnology and has completed his PhD in Nanotechnology from Amity University Haryana, India. His PhD research focused on developing a nanohybrid electrochemical DNA sensor for detecting Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Jakub Sobolewski is a PhD student at the Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology of Warsaw University of Technology. He received a B.S. degree in electronics engineering and telecommunication from Bialystok University of Technology in Poland, in 2014 and an M.S. degree in telecommunications from Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, in 2017.

MSc Aleksander Cherniadev was born in Kirov in Russia and studied at Vyatka Humanitarian Gymnasium with Advanced Education in English language.
Education:
– joint master’s degree in Molecular Nano- and Biophotonics between University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), Saint Petersburg, Russia and École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Cachan, France, 2019;
– studied at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Joensuu, Finland, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Institute of Photonics, September 2017 – December 2017;
– bachelor’s degree in Photonics and Optical Information Technologies from the University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2017.
Currently an employee at CENTERA working on electrodynamic aspects of radiation interaction with two-dimensional electron gas.

PhD student
MSc Aleksandra Przewłoka was born in Puławy in Poland, in 1993. She received the M.Sc. degree in biology from the University of Lodz, Poland in 2019, the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Chemistry from Military University of Technology, Warsaw in 2017. She is currently working toward the PhD degree at Military University of Technology. She worked at the Lukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Electronic Materials Technology in Warsaw from 2013 to 2019. Since October 2019 she has been associated with the Center for Terahertz Research and Applications CENTERA in Warsaw.
Her current research interests are focused on investigation of properties of carbon-based nanomaterials (especially graphene and carbon nanotubes) and their chemical modification to improve their optoelectronic properties.

MSc Adil Rehman
Education: Master in Engineering Sciences (Applied Physics);
Current Position: Young Scientist at CENTERA Project, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences;
Research Interest: Graphene and other novel 2D materials, Carbon nanotubes, Optoelectronic devices, Low frequency noise characterization, SubTHz and THz measurements.

PhD eng. Piotr Wiśniewski received his  PhD degree from the Warsaw University of Technology in 2020. In 2013 he had a 6-month internship at IMEC Belgium where he was working on plasma processing of advanced CMOS devices. He is currently associated with the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT, Warsaw University of Technology, and also with the Center for Terahertz Research and Applications (CENTERA) at the Institute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests include physics and modeling of semiconductor devices with emphasis on problems related to quantum-mechanical phenomena as well as solid-state technology.

MSc eng. Maciej Filipiak obtained master degree in Photonics form Faculty of Mechatronics at Warsaw University of Technology in 2018. Has a 9 month practice in cleanroom laboratory as Litho Team at IMEC Belgium. He is currently an employee of the Center for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT as well as of the THz Laboratory at Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main responsibilities are photolithography and resist chemistry processes.

Ph.D. Eng. Ewelina Karpierz-Marczewska has graduated from Chemical Technology at Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology as well as from Nanostructure Engineering, interdyscyplinary studies at Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Chemistry of University of Warsaw. She has got a PhD diploma at Warsaw University of Technology in 2019. At the same year, she joined CENTERA group as a chemist. She deals with research on systems based on two-dimensional crystalline heterostructures.

MSc eng. Bartłomiej Stonio obtained master degree in Electronic form Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at Warsaw University of Technology in 2018. Has a 6 months practice in cleanroom laboratory as Cleaning, Polishing Etching Team at IMEC Belgium. He is currently a PhD student in Electronics at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology (WUT) in field of 2D materials. In CEZAMAT and CENTERA he is an engineer responsible for high temperature processes and layers depositions.