Prof. Marek Samoć
e-mail: marek.samoc@pwr.edu.pl
Professor of Materials Science and Head of Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group, Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland, 50-370 Wroclaw, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27
Degrees and Titles:
- PhD. in Chemistry – Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, 1977
- Habilitation (D.Sc.) – Technical University of Wroclaw, 1985
- Professor of Chemical Sciences – title awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland, 2007
Employment History:
- 2008 – present – Professor at Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
- 2003 – March 2009 – Senior Fellow at Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
- since 2003 – Research Professor, Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA
- September 1992 – December 2002: Fellow at Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
- September 1990 to 1993: Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo, NY;
- November 1991 to September 1992: Visiting Scientist at Laser Physics Centre, ANU;
- May 1977 to September 1991: Lecturer at Inst. of Org. and Phys. Chemistry, TU of Wroclaw;
- March 1988 to August 1989 and May 1990 to September 1990: Visiting Scientist at Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo, NY
- February 1987 to March 1988: Senior Research Associate at Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
- October 1979 to October 1980: Research Associate (postdoctoral) at Division of Chemistry, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa.
Scientific Community Service:
- Member of the Council of the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN) for 2018-2022
- Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
- Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Knowledge (PAU, Kraków)
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASC)
Research Interests and Expertise:
- Nonlinear optical materials and effects: Nonlinear absorption and refraction; second-order nonlinear optical effects and materials; third-order nonlinear optical effects and materials; nonlinear chirooptic effects.
- Nanophotonics and biophotonics: Nanoconfined structures and metamaterials; colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals; upconverting nanoparticles; plasmonic nanostructures; markers for nonlinear microscopy; light-activated theranostic systems.
- Electrical and related properties of organic solids: Photoconduction, photovoltaics and charge carrier mobility; photorefractive effect.
Membership of Learned Societies: SPIE, Optical Society of America, Polish Chemical Society.
Track Record: ~380 publications, ~10000 citations, h-index=58.
Major Awards:
- Foundation for Polish Science “Welcome” award (2009)
- Poland Prime Minister Science Prize for outstanding achievements in scientific research (2015)
- City of Wroclaw Science Prize (2016)
- Foundation for Polish Science Prize (2016)
- Polish Chemical Society Jan Zawidzki Medal (2017)
- Sapienti Sat Medal awarded by Jedrzej Sniadecki, Karol Olszewski and Zygmunt Wroblewski Association (2018)
- French-Polish Award in Chemistry awarded by the French Chemical Society (2019)
