Employees of the Laboratory of Teleinformatic and Photonics Technologies
Prof. Ewa Weinert Rączka Head of the Laboratory | Professor Ewa Weinert-Rączka was born in Szczecin. She graduated from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, and received her PhD from the Warsaw University of Technology. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Jena, as a grantee of the German DAAD foundation. Her research interests include nonlinear optics, integrated optics, all-optical switching devices and semiconductor heterostructures with photorefractive properties. For several years, she has served as chairman of the Optics Section of the Polish Physical Society, is the main organizer of the Polish Optical Conferences and co-organizer, together with Professor Miroslaw Karpierz, of the International Scientific Workshop “Nonlinear Optics Applications.” | |
Prof. Patryk Urban Head of the Department of Telecommunications and Photonics
| Graduate of Faculty of Electrical Engineering at West Pomeranian University of Technology (2004); researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (2005-2009) and the National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications in Pisa (2009-2010); research engineer at Ericsson AB in Stockholm (2010-2018); since 2018 ZUT professor and technology and business development consultant in photonics for the telecom/datacom/sensing/ market. He holds a doctorate in optical access networks from Eindhoven University of Technology (2009) and a doctor of science in telecommunications from Warsaw University of Technology (2017). Since 2005, he has been conducting research on next-generation optical access network technologies including monitoring and sensing techniques. He has initiated or participated in many international scientific projects. Since 2006, he has been an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), including, founder and long-time chairman of the board of IEEE Photonics Sweden, chairman of IEEE Photonics Poland, and vice-chairman of the Polish Committee on Optoelectronics within the Society of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP). He contributes as a reviewer to the periodicals of IET, IEEE, OSA/Optica, and Springer. He is a member of scientific committees of industry conferences including the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications and contributions to major conferences, symposia and workshops around the world as well as presentations at ITU and FSAN standardization forums. His track record includes around 50 granted international patents.
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Andrzej Ziółkowski DSc, PhD |
Andrzej Ziolkowski has been a researcher at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin since 2007. In 2007-2008 he worked as an assistant and since 2009 as an assistant professor, first in the Department of Optical Telecommunications and Photonics of the Institute of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics and then in the Department of Telecommunications and Photonics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of West Pomeranian University of Technology. He defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Nonlinear light propagation in a photorefractive planar waveguide on multiple quantum wells” with honors at the Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology in 2008. Since the establishment of the Teleinformatic and Photonics Technologies Laboratory, he has been associated with the Photonic Devices Laboratory, which is part of it. The research interests of Andrzej Ziolkowski, include the search for and characterization of new nonlinear optical materials and their use in the fabrication of reconfigurable optical circuits and in the switching and processing of light signals. The main thematic axis of his research work is optically induced physical phenomena in bulk semiconductor materials such as GaAs, AlGaAs and InP and in multiple quantum well structures fabricated based on these materials. As part of his scientific activity, Andrzej Ziolkowski, carries out projects of both theoretical and experimental nature, cooperating with research groups of such centers as the Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics in Warsaw, the Department of Physics at the Warsaw University of Technology, the Institute of Physics at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
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Grzegorz Żegliński PhD |
Grzegorz Zeglinski is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Telecommunications and Photonics. He created and currently leads the Laboratory of Microstructured Fiber Optics. For many years, he has been involved in quality control and testing of telecommunications network components, as well as verification of new telecommunications standards through construction and testing of reference optical networks and their passive and active components. His research interests include microstructured optical fibers and their applications in passive optical fiber networks and sensors. He teaches courses in fiber optic network design, measurements in fiber optic networks, optoelectronic and fiber optic sensors. | |
Błażej Jabłoński PhD | Błażej Jablonski is a graduate of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) in Szczecin, majoring in Electronics and Telecommunications. After completing his second degree, he began working on his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Ewa Weinert-Rączka, which he defended in April 2024. Since 2013, he has been employed as a research and teaching assistant. In his scientific work, his interests include photonics, in particular with nonlinear phenomena occurring in photorefractive semiconductor structures. His scientific achievements consist of several publications and numerous articles in conference proceedings. He actively participated in the organization of conferences, including the “Polish Optics Conference”, the interdisciplinary doctoral workshop “IIPhDW” and the international scientific workshop “Nonlinear Optics Applications”.
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Marek Wichtowski PhD |
Marek Wichtowski has worked in the Department of Telecommunications and Photonics as an assistant professor since 2007. As part of his teaching activities, he has given lectures, exercises and laboratories on many subjects related to the field of optoelectronics in the broadest sense, such as Applied Optoelectronics, Physics of Lasers, Lasers in Medicine, Monitoring of Electromagnetic Environment, Fundamentals of Fiber Optic Telecommunications, Fiber Optic Sensors, Semiconductor Instruments, Issues in Modern Optics. Currently, these are mainly lectures, auditing exercises and laboratories in physics. In his scientific work, he is mainly engaged in the theoretical study of photorefractive nonlinearity in photoconducting crystals, especially in semiconductor heterostructures, and the properties of spatial solitons in such materials. Author of about 30 scientific articles and the monograph Linear Optics. Physical Fundamentals, PWN, Warsaw 2020.
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Eliza Miśkiewicz MSc |
Eliza Miśkiewicz is an engineering graduate (specialization Electronic Systems) and a master's graduate (specialization Optoelectronic Telecommunication Systems) from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, West Pomeranian University of Technology. Since 2012, she has been a PhD student, and in 2013-2015 an assistant, in the Department of Telecommunications and Photonics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at ZUT. She is involved in the research work of the Laboratory of Telecommunication and Photonics Technologies - mainly the Laboratory of Photonic Devices in the field of nonlinear optics and characterization of electro-optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Her research interests also include the influence of thermal phenomena on electro-optical properties and nonlinear optical phenomena in semiconductor heterostructures.
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Andrzej Niesterowicz MSc |
Andrzej Niesterowicz has been an employee of the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (Szczecin University of Technology) since 1983. In 1983, he graduated from the Szczecin University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, majoring in Industrial Automation and Metrology, with a Master of Science degree. Subsequently, he was employed at the Department of Laser Techniques of the Institute of Industrial Automation at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Szczecin University of Technology as a technician. During a period of six years, he was engaged in work on the application of lasers and magneto-optical materials. Since 2000, he was employed as a senior lecturer teaching optoelectronics and fiber optic telecommunications. Since February 2013, he worked as a specialist in the Laboratory of Information and Communication Technologies and Photonics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin. He is currently employed as a specialist in the Dean's Office and cooperates with the Department of Telecommunications and Photonics. As part of the cooperation, he is involved in quality control and testing of telecommunications network components, as well as verification of new telecommunications standards. |
