Prof. dr hab. Piotr Bojarski
University of Gdańsk
Physical Sciences
Piotr Bojarski works at the University of Gdańsk and is a professor of physical sciences. He graduated in physics at the University of Gdańsk (1988), where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 and habilitated at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 2001. He received the national title of professor in 2008. Prof. Piotr Bojarski completed long-term postdoctoral research internships at the Department of Biophysics at the University of Bremen and at the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Later, he was a visiting professor at the University of North Texas in Fort Worth, the Health Science Center, as well as in the CNR network in Naples and Rome. He has published over 130 scientific papers in renowned international journals. His research interests are interdisciplinary: from molecular physics and biophysics, through organic and hybrid optical materials and biomaterials, to the application of physical methods in forensic science and medical physics. An important role in the research is played by mathematical modelling of the studied physicochemical phenomena and processes. The topic that binds the research is luminescence and its applications in related sciences and technologies. The research is carried out by a scientific team in the Department of Biomaterials and Medical Physics, headed by Professor Piotr Bojarski. The main research interests of Prof. P. Bojarski’s team in recent years include the development and verification of models of nonradiative electronic excitation energy transport on core-shell nanostructures, nanolayers, ordered polymers or polypeptides, design of plasmonic platforms for sensitive detection and amplification of fluorescent probes emission and design of biosensors, physicochemical studies of materials in terms of their suitability for of fourth-generation OLEDs as well as the use of physicochemical methods for the sensitive detection and identification of biological forensic traces.
He has worked for NCN many times as a reviewer and expert on different panels: ST2, ST4 and ST5. He has also prepared many opinions and reviews for other institutions supporting scientific activities, both domestic and foreign. During the last evaluation of scientific units, he was an expert in the evaluation of criterion III. In recent years he has led, among others, two OPUS grants and participated in numerous other projects, including science organisation and teaching, e.g. the creation of a luminescence kinetics laboratory, the FNP project for international doctoral studies in physics as a supervisor, as a coordinator of the didactic project ‘Physics for medicine’ or the applicant in a successful project for the construction of the UG Institute of Computer Science building. He has given lectures and actively participated in numerous international conferences, also as a co-organiser or a member of scientific panel. In 2023, he co-chaired the programme committee of Polish physicists’ most important national event: the Congress of Polish Physicists. He has promoted five PhDs and is currently taking care of three PhD students.
In addition to science, he has numerous passions: brewing, table tennis and chess, to name just a few. He is keenly interested in art, music and literature, especially contemporary poetry.