Curriculum Vitae

 

Professional Experience


Jul 2017 - present Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, associate professor
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017 Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, postdoc
Oct 2013 - Sep 2016 CERN, Geneva, fellow
Oct 2011 - Sep 2013 IPPP, Durham University, postdoc position

Oct 2008 - Sep 2011 LPTHE, CNRS, Paris 6 Univ., postdoc position

Nov 2006 - Oct 2007 CERN, M. Curie Early Stage Research Training Programme

Education


2017 Habilitation
  Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  Main achievement: monograph QCD and Jets at Hadron Colliders, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 89, 1-55, 2016

2008 Ph.D. in Physics with Distinction
  Supervisor: prof. K. Golec-Biernat
  Thesis: Effects of quantum chromodynamics in particle collisions at high energies

2004-2008 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Ph.D. studies

2004 Master of Science in Physics with Distinction
  Supervisor: prof. A. Białas
  Thesis: Diffractive production at high energies in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

1999-2004 Jagiellonian University, Cracow, undergraduate studies

1995-1999 Marcin Wadowita High School, Wadowice

Conferences, Workshops, Schools and Seminars

  • Seminar of the Division of Theoretical Physics, IFJ PAN, Kraków, 19 October 2017; talk: Precise predictions for collider processes in perturbative QCD

  • 13th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections, RADCOR 2017, St. Gilgen, Austria, 24-29 September 2017; talk: Top pair production at NNLO: an alternative approach

  • Limits of Knowledge, International Scientific Conference Humboldt-Kolleg, AGH Kraków, 22-25 June 2017; talk: Awaiting a revolution in particle physics. What can it be and when can it happen?

  • MC4BSM, SLAC, USA, 11-13 May 2017; talk: NLO+PS matching and perspectives for NLO PS

  • SLAC Elementary Particle Physics Theory Seminar, SLAC USA, 10 May 2017; talk: Matching NLO with parton shower in Monte Carlo scheme

  • Mini-workshop on collective effects in p+p, p+A and A+A, Kraków, Poland, 18-20 May, 2016; talk: Forward dijet production in p+A collisions and effects of improved TMD factorization

  • “Collider Physics” 2nd Symposium of the Division for Physics of Fundamental Interactions of the Polish Physical Society, Katowice, Poland, 13-15 May, 2016; talk: Matching fixed order QCD with parton shower for Drell-Yan and Higgs production

  • Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory, Leipzig, Germany, 24-29 May, 2016

  • XIIIth Workshop on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, DESY, Hamburg, Germany, 21-24 March, 2016

  • Conference on the Physics Opportunities at an ElecTron-Ion Collider, POETIC 6, Palaiseau, France, 7-11 September, 2015; talk: Forward dijet production and improved TMD factorization in dilute-dense hadronic collisions

  • Amplitudes 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, 6-10 July, 2015

  • Parton Showers, Event Generators and Resummation 2015, Cracow, Poland, 26-28 May, 2015; talk Matching in MC scheme - the KrkNLO method

  • RWTH Aachen, Institute for Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology, Aachen, Germany, 30 April 2015; seminar: Calculating the dominant part of NNLO for high-pT observables

  • Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, March 21-28, 2015, La Thuile, Italy; talk: Forward dijet production and improved TMD factorization in dilute-dense hadronic collisions

  • Physics comparisons and Generator Tunes, CERN, 18 July, 2014; talk: Matching NLO with parton shower in MC factorization scheme

  • 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, 2-9 July, 2014, Valencia, Spain; talk: Matching NLO with parton shower in Monte Carlo scheme

  • EW precision physics at the LHC, June 30, 2014, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; talk: NLO matched with shower in Monte Carlo scheme for Drell-Yan

  • Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, March 9-16, 2013, La Thuile, Italy; talk: WZ and W+jets production at large transverse momenta beyond NLO

  • Working Group on EW precision measurements at the LHC, October 8-10, 2012, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; talk: WZ production at large transverse momenta beyond NLO in QCD

  • International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, September 16-21, 2012, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland; talk: Saturation in central-forward jet production in p-Pb collisions at LHC

  • pA@LHC Workshop, 4-8 June 2012, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; talk: Saturation in central-forward jet production in p-Pb collisions at LHC

  • Physics at TeV Colliders Les Houches Workshop, May 30 - June 7, 2011, Les Houches, France; talk: LoopSim

  • Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Interactions, March 20-27, 2011, La Thuile, Italy; talk: Reaching beyond NLO in processes with QCD K-factors

  • Boston Jet Physics Workshop, January 12-14 , 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; talk: Controlling large K-factors in processes with jets

  • Workshop on Hadron-Hadron & Cosmic-Ray Interactions at multi-TeV Energies, November 29 - December 3, 2010, ECT* - Trento, Italy talk: Characterising the underlying event in hadron-hadron collisions

  • The 3rd International Workshop on High Precision for Hard Processes at the LHC, September 14-17, 2010, Florence, Italy; talk: Simulating NNLO QCD corrections for processes with giant K-factors

  • CERN TH Institute, Perturbative higher-order effects at work at the LHC, June 21 - July 9, 2010, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; talk: Simulating NNLO QCD corrections for processes with giant K-factors

  • L Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, June 9-19, 2010, Zakopane, Poland; talk: Addressing giant QCD K-factors at hadron colliders

  • Rencontres de Moriond, QCD and High Energy Interactions, March 13-20, 2010, La Thuile, Italy; talk: On strategies for determination and characterisation of the underlying event

  • UE&MB at Early LHC Working Group, March 1-2, 2010, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland; talk: On characterisation of the underlying event

  • Les JournĂŠes P2I, February 4-5, 2010, l'IAP, Paris; talk: Characterising the underlying event in hadron-hadron collisions

  • Joint Theoretical-Experimental Workshop on Jets and Jet Substructure at the LHC, January 11-15, 2010, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; talk: On strategies for determination and characterisation of the underlying event

  • XXXIX International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, September 4-9, 2009, Homel Region, Belarus; talk: Underlying event characterisation in a jet based approach

  • Workshop on Standard Model Discoveries with Early LHC Data, March 30 - April 1, 2009, London, UK; talk: Jet-based approach for underlying event characterisation

  • Cracow Epiphany Conference on Hadron Interactions at the Dawn of the LHC, January 5-7, 2009,Cracow, Poland

  • 48. Cracow School of Theoretical Physics: Aspects of Duality, June 13-22, 2008, Zakopane, Poland

  • Parton fragmentation processes: in the vacuum and in the medium, Trento, Italy, February 25-29, 2008; talk: Hadronic composition as a characteristics of jet quenching at the LHC

  • Cracow Epiphany Conference on LHC Physics, January 4-6, 2008, Cracow, Poland talk: Hadronic composition as a characteristics of jet quenching at the LHC

  • School on QCD, Low x Physics, Saturation and Diffraction, Copanello, Italy, July 1-14, 2007; talk: Hadrochemistry of Jet quenching at the LHC

  • Workshop on Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC, Last Call for Predictions,
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, May 14 - June 8 , 2007; talk: Hadrochemistry of Jet quenching at the LHC

  • XV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Munich, Germany, April 16-20, 2007; talk: Heavy flavour production in DGLAP improved saturation model

  • XXXIII International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP, July 26 - August 2, 2006, Moscow, Russia; talk: QCD fits to diffraction

  • Low x Meeting, June 28-July 1, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal; talk: DGLAP Improved Saturation Model with Heavy Flavours

  • XLVI Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, May 27-June 5, 2006, Zakopane, Poland; talk: Heavy Flavours in DGLAP improved Saturation Model

  • 41st Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and Hadronic Interactions, March 18-25, 2006, La Thuile, Italy; talk: Heavy Flavours in DGLAP improved Saturation Model

  • Cracow Epiphany Conference on Neutrinos and Dark Matter, January 5-8, 2006, Cracow, Poland; talk: Diffraction at Tevatron and LHC in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

  • DESY Theory Workshop 2005, Quantum Chromodynamics from the MeV to the TeV Scales, September 27-30, 2005, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

  • The Photon: its First Hundred Years and the Future, August 30-September 8, 2005, Warsaw and Kazimierz, Poland

  • Low x Meeting, June 29-July 2, 2005, Sinaia, Romania; talk: Diffraction at Tevatron and LHC in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

  • XLV Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, June 3-12, 2005, Zakopane, Poland; talk: Diffraction at Tevatron and LHC in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

  • Cracow Epiphany Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, January 6-8, 2005, Cracow, Poland

  • Central European School in Particle Physics, September 14-24, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

  • XLIV Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, May 28-June 6, 2004, Zakopane, Poland

  • XLIII Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, May 30-June 8, 2003, Zakopane, Poland

  • Polish-German Astroparticle Physics Student Academy, September 18-28, 2002, Krzyżowa, Poland; talk: Inflation and the Cosmological Constant problem

Teaching

  • Ecole Internationale de Physique Subatomique, October 20-25, 2014, Lyon, France; Lectures on QCD and jets : Lecture 1: Foundations, Lecture 2: Applications, Lecture 3: Jets

  • British Universities Summer School in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (BUSSTEPP), September 2-14, 2012, IPPP, Durham, UK; tutorials: QFT, SM and BSM, SUSY, Neutrino and Dark Matter, Lattice FT, LHC Physics, Cosmology

  • Durham University, UK, 2011-2013; classes: Theoretical physics: Classical mechanics and Quantum mechanics

  • Terascale Monte Carlo School 2011, March 14-18, 2011, DESY, Hamburg, Germany; tutorial: Jet Physics

  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2009; supervising a diploma student Qi Cheng Zhang

  • Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 2004-2008; classes: Foundation of physics: Mechanics, Computer graphics, Introduction to programming, Physics laboratories

Training Programs

  • CERN Marie Curie Early Stage Research Training Programme - EUROTHEPHY,
    November 1, 2006-October 31, 2007, Geneva, Switzerland

  • DESY Summer Student Programme, July 14-September 7, 2004, Hamburg,
    Germany

  • Student Programme at Institute of Nuclear Physics, July 1-31, 2002, Cracow, Poland

Awards

  • Stipend of the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) for young researches - START - edition 2008

  • Doctoral Fellowship of Polish Ministry of Science, October 2006 - September 2008

Languages

  • Polish - native
  • English - fluent
  • French - conversational
  • German - basic

Computer Knowledge

  • Experience of Linux, Unix and Windows operating systems; extensive knowledge of related system tools.
  • Experience of C++, Python, Mathematica, FORM, GSL, SVN, CERNLIB, LaTeX. Gnuplot
  • Experience with FastJet, Herwig, Pythia, Sherpa, MCFM, NLOJet++, VBFNLO.
  • Knowledge of FORTRAN, Maple, HTML, ROOT, GTK, OpenGL.