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
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
Semiconductor policy - role and opportunities for the University of Warsaw
The Ministry of Digitalisation has published a strategic document ‘Poland in the game for the future - policy for the semiconductor sector 2025+’, which sets the directions for the development of one of the key technology areas. This sector is being intensively developed at the UW's Faculty of Physics. The scientific teams of the FUW conduct advanced research into quantum states of light, semiconductor nanostructures, and materials used in optoelectronic systems. Researchers from the Faculty of Physics also actively participated in the public consultation of the document, enriching the national strategy for the development of the semiconductor sector with the perspective of the academic community.| More
Faculty of Physics UW - member of the Semiconductor Competence Centre InnoSemi
The Faculty of Physics UW has become a partner of the Semiconductor Competence Centre - InnoSemi, an initiative aimed at developing the national semiconductor sector and its integration into the European innovation ecosystem. The project coordinators on behalf of the Faculty are Prof. Adam Babiński, Prof. Barbara Piętka and Dr Piotr Kaźmierczak.| More
Publication by scientists from the Faculty of Physics UW awarded the Crystallographic Diamond
A scientific publication authored by Dr. Piotr Fabrykiewicz, in collaboration with Prof. Radosław Przeniosło and Prof. Izabela Sosnowska, has been honored with the prestigious Crystallographic Diamond Award by the Committee on Crystallography of the Polish Academy of Sciences.| 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
FUW researcher in EIC Women Leadership Programme 2025
Dr hab. Barbara Piętka, prof. UW has been selected to join the prestigious 2025 cohort of the EIC Women Leadership Programme. This program, organized by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), in partnership with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), aims to enhance skills, foster networking, and empower women researchers, entrepreneurs, and aspiring leaders in the fields of innovation and technology. The program is implemented by Impact Hub and Female Founders. | 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
8th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics
An international school of statistical physics, the ‘8th Warsaw School of Statistical Physics’, organized by researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, will be held from 29 June to 5 July 2025 at the European Centre for Geological Education of the University of Warsaw in Chęciny. Lectures will be on the physics of growth processes, complex systems, quantum nonequilibrium processes, topology and mechanics of soft matter and quantum thermodynamics. | 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
2025-10-02 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
to be announced
2025-10-09 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Introduction to PDE Lie systems
2025-10-16 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
To be announced
2025-10-23 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
Lie systems: A 16 years restrospective about a 132-years-old theory
2025-10-30 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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2025-11-06 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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2025-11-13 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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2025-12-04 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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2025-12-11 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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2025-12-18 (15:15) :: Gamma Seminar
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Research Highlights
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
Suster M.C., Szymańska A., Antosiewicz T.j., Królikowska A., Wróbel P.
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, vol. 17(15), pp. 23076-23093
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c00716
Nowak J.L., Dragaud I.C.D.V., Lee J., Dziekan P., Mellado J.P., Stevens B.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2025, vol. 17(3), art. e2024MS004340
DOI: 10.1029/2024MS004340
Aleksander Rodek, Mateusz Hajdel, Kacper Oreszczuk, Anna Kafar, Muhammed Aktas, Łucja Marona, Marek Potemski, Czesław Skierbiszewski, Piotr Kossacki
Advanced Optical Materials, first published: 18 February 2025
DOI: 10.1002/adom.202401879
Nawaz N., Perveen S., Ramalingam K., Bieńkowski K., Wrobel P., Pisarek M., Prabhakaran S., Gonzalez Szwacki N., Pitchaimuthu S., Solarska R.
Chemical Engineering Journal 511, 2025, art. 162272
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.162272
Upcoming Conferences & Events
19th Congress of the Polish Biophysical Society
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw / Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, June 23-26, 2025
Gravitational Wave Probes of Physics Beyond Standard Model 4
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw / Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, June 23-27, 2025
Workshop on Ultracold Molecules 2025
Warszawa, June 24-27, 2025
8th Warsaw School on Statistical Physics
Chęciny, Poland, June 29 - July 05, 2025
PKO’2025 – VIII Polska Konferencja Optyczna
Rzeszów, June 30 - July 03, 2025
OECS’19 – XIX International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems
Warszawa, July 14-18, 2025
SN2025gw: First IGWN Symposium on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Theory and Detection
Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw / Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, July 21-25, 2025
38th Mazurian Lakes Conference on Physics
Piaski, August 31 – September 06, 2025
Quantum Optics XI
Kraków, 1-5 September 2025
Advanced school on complexity, integrability, and quantum chaos
Wydział Fizyki UW, Warszawa, 1-5 September 2025
Job offers
2025-06-06 :: Assistant Professor (Post-doc), astronomy
2025-06-06 :: Assistant Professor (Post-doc), theoretical physics
2025-04-30 :: Assistant professor, research academics [40/2025]