Faculty of Physics
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The Faculty of Physics is a large research and teaching center. It consists of The Institutes of Theoretical Physics, Experimental Physics, Geophysics, The Astronomical Observatory and The Department of Mathematical Methods in Physics.
The Faculty is regarded as one of the best in the country, recognized internationally for the high quality of research and education.
News
Conference Scalars 2025 – September 22–25, 2025
From September 22 to 25, 2025, the Faculty will host the seventh edition of the international conference Scalars 2025, dedicated to the role of scalar fields in high-energy physics and cosmology. The event will bring together experts from around the world to present the latest research results and discuss future directions in this rapidly developing area of science.| More
"Zapytaj fizyka" lecture - Particle Physics Show
On Tuesday, September 23, at 6:00 PM, students and research fellows from University of Bonn will host "Particle Physics Show" in the "Zapytaj fizyka" series. The co-creator and main coordinator of the show is Prof. Herbert Dreiner, a specialist in elementary particle physics. The show combines theatre and science in an unusual way: during the show two young characters will travel back in time to discover the secret of mass in particle physics. During their adventure they will meet prominent scientists form England (1910) , USA (1950), Germany (1980) and finally CERN laboratory in Geneva (2012), where they will witness a historic discovery of the Higgs boson in Large Hadron Collider (LHC). During the spectacle 25 physical experiments will be presented live on stage. The event will take place in room 0.03 at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 5 (Warsaw).
This event is a part of Science Festival.| More
29th Science Festival at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
Do superconductors conduct super-current? What connects a sneeze, soap, and invisible creatures? Why is it so difficult to detect gravitational waves? What is it like to work in an analogue space base? How do scientists study works of art? – answers to these and many other questions can be found during lectures, workshops, and classes organized at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, as part of the 29th edition of the Science Festival in Warsaw. This year’s edition will also be highlighted by a unique popular science show “Particle Physics Show”, prepared by students and researchers from the University of Bonn.| More
Making the invisible visible: a new way to boost light emission at the nanoscale
Light still holds surprises – as demonstrated by researchers from the Ultrafast Phenomena Lab at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, who have discovered a new enhancement effect in the emission of upconverting nanoparticles. They demonstrated that simultaneous excitation of these nanostructures with two near-infrared beams of laser light leads to a significant increase in emission intensity. Under carefully chosen conditions, visible emission emerges only when both beams are applied together, even though neither beam alone produces any emission at all. This discovery paves the way for visualizing infrared radiation beyond the sensitivity range of standard detectors. The findings, potentially applicable in microscopy and photonic technologies, have been published in the prestigious journal “ACS Nano”. | More
High Magnetic Fields – New Research Opportunities
High magnetic fields play a crucial role in the study of modern materials, and discoveries related to them have repeatedly been recognized with the Nobel Prize. Access to the highest fields is provided by the European Magnetic Field Laboratory (EMFL), a unique research infrastructure with facilities in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. The Polish scientific community has been actively using this infrastructure for decades, and the University of Warsaw has joined EMFL for the years 2025–2029, representing the EMFL-Polska consortium. Researchers will be able to conduct experiments at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, and apply for access to EMFL laboratories. The project also includes outreach activities, including the EMFL Users Meeting, to be held in Warsaw in June 2026.| More
Strong electromagnetic fields at the Faculty of Physics UW
The Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw is a member of the international LUXE Collaboration, which is preparing an experiment at the Eu.XFEL laboratory in Hamburg. It aims to study the Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) in the regime of extremely strong electromagnetic fields. One of the signatures being searched for is creation of electron-positron pairs in collisions of a strongly-focused high-power laser beam with a high-energy electrons. A key element of the planned experiment is the high-density ECAL-P calorimeter, designed for precise measurement of the energy and spectrum of positrons. The Warsaw LUXE group is actively involved in its design and construction. From 8 to 12 September 2025, the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw will host the LUXE collaboration meeting and the ECAL-P detector team workshop. The event is organized by researchers from the Particles and Fundamental Interactions Division: Prof. Aleksander Filip Żarnecki, and Dr. Grzegorz Grzelak. The author of the project and the main executor of the mechanics of the ECAL-P calorimeter is Dr. Piotr Zbinkowski from the IFD Mechanical Workshop.| More
Polish physicists co-discover “lonely” spinons - a new step towards quantum technologies
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and the University of British Columbia have described how a so-called lone spinon - an exotic quantum excitation that is a single unpaired spin - can arise in magnetic models. The discovery deepens our understanding of the nature of magnetism and could have implications for the development of future technologies such as quantum computers and new magnetic materials. The findings were published in the renowned journal “Physical Review Letters.”. | More
New photonic platform developed by Polish research team
A team of researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Military University of Technology, and the Institut Pascal at Université Clermont Auvergne has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The platform created by the researchers enables the formation and dynamic tuning of photonic crystals with integrated spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and controlled laser emission. The results of this groundbreaking research have been published in the renowned journal “Laser & Photonics Reviews”. | More
A drop hollows out the stone... and records the climate's history
Water reshapes the Earth through slow, powerful erosion, carving intricate landscapes like caves and pinnacles in soluble rocks such as limestone. An international team from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the University of Florida, and the Institute of Earth Sciences in Orléans has discovered that vertical channels, known as karstic solution pipes, preserve a record of Earth’s climatic history. Their study, published in Physical Review Letters, reveals that these pipes evolve with time into an invariant shape, a fixed, ideal form that remains unchanged as the pipes deepen, encoding ancient rainfall patterns. | More
Quantum control of collisions beyond ultralow temperatures
At ultracold temperatures, interatomic collisions are relatively simple, and their outcome can be controlled using a magnetic field. However, research by scientists led by Prof. Michal Tomza from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and prof. Roee Ozeri from the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that this is also possible at higher temperatures. The scientists published their observations in the scientific journal “Science Advances”. | More
From classical hydrodynamics to quantum hydrodynamics and back again – how the Navier-Stokes equations describe quantum systems
Although the Navier-Stokes equations are the foundation of modern hydrodynamics, adopting them to quantum systems has so far been a major challenge. Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, Maciej Łebek, M.Sc. and Miłosz Panfil, Ph.D., Prof. UW, have shown that these equations can be generalised to quantum systems, specifically quantum liquids in which the motion of particles is restricted to one dimension. This discovery opens up new avenues for research into transport in one-dimensional quantum systems. The paper, published in the prestigious Physical Review Letters, was awarded an ‘editors’ suggestion'. | More
A new class of cosmic X-ray sources discovered
An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, have identified a new class of cosmic X-ray sources. The findings have been published in „Astrophysical Journal Letters”. | More
Upcoming events
2025-09-16 (12:15) :: String Theory Journal Club
Quantum effects in black hole physics near extremality
2025-09-22 (14:00) :: PhD Thesis
Self-Organizing Photonic Potentials of Different Dimensions in Liquid Crystal Microcavities with Spin-Orbit and Light-Matter Couplings
2025-09-25 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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2025-09-30 (13:00) :: PhD Thesis
Analiza danych i modelowanie struktury i plastyczności synaps w kontekście uczenia i pamięci
2025-10-02 (12:15) :: Seminar "Theory of Particle Physics and Cosmology"
Decay of scalar condensation: two different approaches
2025-10-02 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
to be announced
2025-10-03 (13:15) :: Atmospheric Physics Seminar
Wave propagation and causality in atmospheric free shear layers
2025-10-09 (13:15) :: Atmospheric Physics Seminar
Recent progress in the symmetry based theory for near-surface shear flows
2025-10-09 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Introduction to PDE Lie systems
2025-10-16 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Sasakian geometry and foliations (provisional title)
Research Highlights
Z. Ogorzałek, C.-C. Lee, J. Z. Domagala, W. Zajkowska-Pietrzak, S. Kret, R. Bożek, W. Pacuski, I. Lutsyk, W. Ryś, P. J. Kowalczyk, M. Tokarczyk, M. Polakowski, D. Wasik, J. Sadowski, B.-H. Huang, H. Lin, M. Gryglas-Borysiewicz
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2025
DOI/10.1021/acsami.5c04474
P. Rajchel-Mieldzioć, A. Bednarkiewicz, K. Prorok, P. Fita
ACS Nano 2025, 19, 29, 26932–26941
DOI/10.1021/acsnano.5c08510
Łucja Kipczak, Zhaolong Chen, Magdalena Grzeszczyk, Sergey Grebenchuk, Pengru Huang, Kristina Vaklinova, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Adam Babiński, Maciej Koperski, Maciej R. Molas
Nanoscale Horizons, Advance Article (2025)
DOI:10.1039/D5NH00198F
Chen S., Krueger S.K., Dziekan P., Enokido K., MacMillan T., Richter D., Schmalfuß S., Shima S.-I., Yang F., Anderson J.C., Cantrell W., Niedermeier D., Shaw R.A., and Stratmann F.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2025, vol. 17(7), art. e2024MS004562
DOI:10.1029/2024MS004562
Y.-X. Liu, L. Zhu, J. Luke, M. C. Babin, M. Gronowski, H. Ladjimi, M. Tomza, J. L. Bohn, T. V. Tscherbul, K.-K. Ni
Nature Chem. 17, 688 (2025)
DOI:10.1038/s41557-025-01778-z
Upcoming Conferences & Events
Geometry of classical and quantum space-times Jerzy Lewandowski Memorial Conference
Banach Center, Warszawa; September 15–19, 2025
II EU Workshop on Water Cherenkov Experiments for Precision Physics
Kraków, September 17-19, 2025
Job offers
2025-09-15 :: Postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
2025-09-11 :: Research Specialist position in the Laboratory of RNA Biology – ERA Chairs Group (Technical Support)
2025-09-11 :: Postdoctoral Researcher position in the Laboratory of RNA Biology – ERA Chairs Group (Junior Researcher) - 3 posts
2025-09-10 :: Research Specialist position in the Laboratory of RNA Biology – ERA Chairs Group (Technical Support)
2025-09-08 :: Student at the Laboratory of Chemical Biology – Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw
2025-08-26 :: Student Scholarship: Spatiotemporal light shaping and photon counting cameras for microscopy.
2025-08-26 :: Doctoral Scholarship: Spatiotemporal light shaping and photon counting cameras for microscopy.
2025-04-30 :: Assistant professor, research academics [40/2025]