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PhD – 1977, Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry Technical University of Wroclaw (TUW), Poland, in physical chemistry: electrical and optical properties of organic crystals; MSc - 1973 in organic chemistry, TUW, Poland
1997 – present: Fellow at Laser Physics Centre, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering (RSPhysSE), Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia; 1992 - 1997 Research Fellow, 1991 -1992 Visiting Fellow in Laser Physics Centre, RSPhysSE ANU;
1977 – 1991: Lecturer at Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland;
1988 – 1989: Research Associate at Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA;
1987 – 1988: Research Associate at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA;
Visiting Fellow: Jan. 1980 - Department of Macromolecular Chemistry Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Prague, Czechoslovakia, May-Sep.1980 - Division of Chemistry, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa 1983, 1986 - Institute of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland; July 2006 - Proprietes Optiques des Materiaux et Applications (POMA) Laboratory at Universite d’Angers, France,
Development and characterization of second-order and third-order nonlinear optical materials, second harmonic generation, Pockels effect, degenerate four wave mixing, Z-scan, electrical, optical properties of organic crystals; fabrication and characterization of molecular crystals, polymers, organically modified sol-gel glasses (ormosil), thin films, planar optical waveguides and polymer optical fibres. Research interest in characterization and developing nonlinear optical materials for photonics, and the functionalised DNA-based nanocomposites with controlled orientation of nonlinear optical chromophores for biotronics applications.
85 journal publications, 82 conference abstracts, 2 book chapter, 2 patents