New professor nomination at the Institute for Dr. hab. Janusz Sadowski

We are happy to announce that our colleague Janusz Sadowski, by the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of June 19, 2026, has received the academic title of Professor of Natural Sciences in Physics. Our newly appointed full professor has been employed at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1987.

 We are happy to announce that our colleague Janusz Sadowski, by the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of June 19, 2026, has received the academic title of Professor of Natural Sciences in Physics. Our newly appointed full professor has been employed at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1987.

Janusz Sadowski graduated from the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Warsaw University of Technology. From 1987 to 1992, he was involved in the construction of the first molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, as a member of the research group led by Prof. M.A. Herman, who also supervised his doctoral dissertation.

In 1996, he obtained a PhD in physical sciences and, shortly thereafter, was awarded a French Government scholarship. Under this fellowship, he spent six months conducting research in the CEA/CNRS–Joseph Fourier University group (now Université Grenoble Alpes) in France. There, he carried out a project on magnetic-field-tunable excitonic Bragg mirrors in CdTe/CdMnTe multiple quantum well heterostructures.

In 1998, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship and joined the Swedish national synchrotron-radiation laboratory MAX-lab (now MAX IV) at Lund University. After several years, he was appointed to a research position there and became one of the first researchers in Europe to grow and experimentally investigate the diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As. At the same time, while working part-time at IF PAN between 2007 and 2015, he initiated the MBE growth and investigation of semiconductor nanowires. He continues this line of research today, with a particular focus on topological materials.

In 2011, he obtained his habilitation degree in physical sciences, and since 2015 he has been an associate professor at IF PAN. In 2019, he concluded his employment at MAX IV and, after spending three years as a visiting professor at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden, moved his professional activity entirely to Poland in 2023. At IF PAN, in collaboration with the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, he continues his experimental research on quantum nanostructures based on topological semimetals, altermagnets, and two-dimensional materials

We sincerely congratulate our colleague and wish him further fruitful work!