Prof. dr hab. inż. Henryk Fiedorowicz
Military University of Technology in Warsaw
Institute of Optoelectronics
Henryk Fiedorowicz graduated from the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, studying technical physics in the field of nuclear physics. After graduation, he began working at the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion in Warsaw, where he studied laser thermonuclear fusion. The results of this research were awarded by the Minister of National Defence and were the subject of a dissertation on the investigation of spherical laser plasma compression using X-ray diagnostic methods, on the basis of which he received a doctorate in technical sciences in the field of materials engineering.
In the late 1980s, he began research on the production of X-ray and extreme ultraviolet radiation by laser and its application in science and technology. Since 1992, he has been conducting research in this field at the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, where he established a laboratory for the interaction of laser radiation with matter. The greatest achievement of this work was the development of a new method for the production of X-ray radiation by laser and an X-ray laser using a pulsed gas target, for which he received the degree of habilitated doctor of physical sciences at the Institute of Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
He managed many research projects under national and foreign grants, including seven grants from the Polish Committee for Scientific Research and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, two NATO grants and three projects under the EUREKA programme and four projects under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union. He was the coordinator of the international doctoral programme EXTATIC under the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme and the Laserlab-Europe project under the Horizon 2020 programme. He managed the NCN research project under the Polish-German scientific cooperation programme Beethoven. He spent many research internships abroad, in the USA, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan, Korea and China. He was a visiting professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University in Osaka, Japan. At the request of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, he was awarded the title of professor of physical sciences.
Currently, he leads the team of the Military University of Technology participating in the NCN project, carried out in cooperation with the team from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany, in two European projects RIANA and Lasers4EU, within the Horizon Europe programme and the PolFEL project, concerning the construction of a free electron laser in Poland. He coordinates the activities of the national consortium of universities and research units interested in access to the European research infrastructure ELI ERIC. He is the author of over 310 publications in scientific journals and 4 patents, including 2 foreign ones. For his scientific achievements, he has received two individual and one team Award of the Minister of National Defence. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the Gold and Silver Cross of Merit. Between 2003 and 2010 he was the director of the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Military University of Technology. He is currently a professor at this university. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Physics at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.