Curriculum Vitae
Personal life
- In 1966, I was born in Łomża, Poland, as the first son of Janina Łepkowska and Tadeusz Łepkowski.
- In 1991, I married Agnieszka Głybyszyn. We have two daughters: Anna and Maria.
Education
- 1973-1981: the primary education at the 4th Primary School in Łomża.
- 1981-1985: the secondary education at the Tadeusz Kościuszko High School in Łomża.
- 1985-1991: studies at the Faculty of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, completed by obtaining the MSc degree.
- 1999: PhD degree from the Institute of Electron Technology in Warsaw.
- 2010: DSc (habilitation) degree from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Additional courses:
- 1992-1995 : three-year extramural studies of theology at the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw, Collegium Joanneum.
- 1995-1997: two-year extramural studies of physics and astronomy at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.
Positions
- October 1991 - February 1992: visiting scholar (TEMPUS program) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, City University of London, UK.
- April 1992 – June 1992: specialist in computer modeling in the Air Force Institute of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
- July 1992- March 2000: assistant in the Department of Physics and Technology of Low-dimensional Structures, the Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
- October 2000 – September 2013: assistant professor/associate professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland.
- April 2000 – till now: specialist/assistant professor/associate professor in the Laboratory of Semiconductors, the Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Scientific activity
- I published about 80 papers in reputed journals.
- I have been serving as an referee in 30 scientific journals.
- I am a guest editor of special issues in the journals Nanomaterials and Crystals.
- Since September 2023, I am a member of the Topic Advisory Panel of Nanomaterials.
Awards
- The paper “Topological phase transition and evolution of edge states in In-rich InGaN/GaN quantum wells under hydrostatic pressure”, (co-author W. Bardyszewski), was included in the annual journal highlights in 2017 by the Editors of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
- The paper “Topological insulator with negative spin-orbit coupling and transition between Weyl and Dirac semimetals in InGaN-based quantum wells”, (co-author W. Bardyszewski), was selected to the Editor’s choice collection by the Editors of Scientific Reports.
- The paper “Quantum spin Hall effect in two-monolayer-thick InN/InGaN coupled multiple quantum wells” was selected as a "Feature paper" by the Editors of Nanomaterials.