Prof. Krystian Roleder

Prof. Krystian Roleder
University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
Do We Understand Why Antiferroelectric Order is Realized in PbZrO3 and PbHfO3

1977-1981: doctoral studies at the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

1981: defence of doctoral thesis in Physics

1990: habilitation in the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in the field of ferroelectrics and experimental physics

1994: associate professor of the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia

1999: professor, permanent position at the Institute of Physics, University of Silesia

 

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Dielectric, electrostrictive, piezoelectric and optical properties of ABO3 perovskites

98 papers published in the international journals, e.g.:

Phase Transitions, Ferroelectrics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Solid State Communications, Journal of Physics E: Science Instruments, Acta Crystallographica, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Physica Status Solidi, Physical Review B, Nature Communications.

According to the ISI Web of Knowledge: 950 citations, h-index = 20

80 posters and/or oral presentations at international conferences, e.g.:

  • ECAPD European Conference on Application of Polar Dielectrics, Metz, France 2006
  • ECAPD Aveiro, Portugal 2012
  • EMF-10 European Meeting on Ferroelectricity, Cambridge 2003;
  • EMF-11 Bled, Slovenia 2007
  • EMF-12 Bordeaux, 2011
  • IMF-7 International Meeting on Ferroelectricity, Saarbrücken, Germany 1989
  • IMF-10 Madrid, Spain, 2001
  • IMF-11 Iguassu Falls, Brazil 2005
  • IMF-12 Xi’an, China, 2009

General Chair of the IMF-13 in Kraków, Poland, 2013

Member of Steering Committees: EMF, IMF & ECAPD

Associate Editor of the multinational journal Phase Transitions

Founding Editor: A.M. Glazer, University of Oxford

Editor-in-Chief: Jens Kreisel, France

Associate Editor Peter Gehring, USA

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0141-1594&linktype=5


ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES

1990-1996: vice-dean for physics studies in the University of Silesia

1992-1995: co-ordinator of the European Mobility Scheme for Physics Students (under the auspices of the European Physical Society)

1996-2002: vice-rector of the University of Silesia

2005-2012: head of the Institute of Physics

2003-2014: head of the Department of Ferroelectric Physics