161. Research at ACMiN – Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology AGH Kraków
Abstract:
I will begin my lecture by describing Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology funded at the AGH University of Krakow (Poland), its establishment, organization, financing, scientific and other activities. I will talk about the equipment base we have, and especially about its development in 2024-2025. I will talk about current scientific activities in the Center using three examples: (1) electron tunneling and spin-dependent phenomena: developing concepts for computer memory andlogic, (2) topological insulators as a promising class of materials and its importance for computing, and finally something about medicine: (3) magnetic micro- and nano nanoparticles, focusing on their characteristics and biomedical uses, such as in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
About the author:
Marek Przybylski – professor of physical sciences. Graduate of AGH (technical solid state physics), doctorate at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, habilitation at AGH. In the years 1999-2013 associated with Max-Planck-Institut fur Mikrostrukturphysik in Halle (Germany), where he led an international team of scientists. Since 2013 director of the Academic Center for Materials and Nanotechnology AGH (scientific category A+). In 2019 he led the team preparing AGH’s participation in the European competition “Initiative of Excellence – Research University”, which brought AGH the status of a “research university” and recognition as the third best university in Poland. Author or co-author of over 160 publications in journals from the JCR list mainly in the field of properties of systems with reduced symmetry. Member of the Committee on Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and several scientific councils and advisory board (in Poland and abroad).