prof. dr hab. Tomasz Dietl
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Physics
Tomasz Dietl is a professor and the head of the International Centre for Interfacing Magnetism and Superconductivity with Topological Matter (MagTop) funded with a grant awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science and implemented at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He completed his PhD and habilitation degrees in experimental and theoretical condensed matter physics in 1977 and 1983, respectively, and became professor at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences in 1990, where he was the head and founder of the Laboratory for Cryogenic and Spintronic Research and since 1986 has managed a research team. Professor Dietl was a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and Munich Technical University. He was a visiting professor at the Kepler University in Linz, Fourier University in Grenoble, Tohoku University, and Paris Sud University in Orsay. He was a part-time ordinary professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Warsaw (2004-2016) as well as principal investigator and professor at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University in Sendai (2012-2023).
His current research interests are focused on the development of material systems and device concepts for nanospintronics of topological insulators, ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic semiconductors, and of hybrid metal/semiconductor nanostructures. He is the author and co-author of over 380 research publications and 30 popularizing articles and has been cited over 22 000 times, with an h-factor of over 58 (WoS). Professor Dietl has delivered over 200 invited talks at international meetings, including 9 plenary talks at major physics conferences.
In 1998, Professor Dietl became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2002, he was elected to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Commission on Low Temperature Physics. Later, Professor Dietl was nominated Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, the American Physical Society, and the Japanese Society of Applied Physics (in 2004, 2015, and 2019, respectively). In 2009, he was elected to the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and Warsaw Science Society and in 2011 to Academia Europaea. In 2011, he was appointed to the Scientific Council and Steering Committee of the European Research Council (ERC) by the European Commission for the term 2011-2014.
Professor Dietl is the recipient of the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Award in Poland (1997); Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in Germany (2003); Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize (2005) alongside David D. Awschalom and Hideo Ohno, for pioneering work that has paved the way to the emergence of semiconductor spintronics; Foundation for Polish Science Prize (2006), and Marian Smoluchowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society (2010). In 2008, Tomasz Dietl received an Advanced Grant (FunDMS) of the European Research Council.