Marek Stankiewicz

Marek Jerzy Stankiewicz graduated in Physics from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in 1973. From 1986, when he was appointed a Research Fellow at the University of Reading (GB), he began research using synchrotron radiation. Permanently employed at the Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University, he developed intensive international cooperation in the field of high-energy molecular spectroscopy, receiving successive contracts at the University of Reading and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and conducting research at synchrotron centers in Daresbury (GB), Lund (S) and Trieste (I). At the same time, at the end of the 1990s, he took up the subject of research on the interaction of strong laser pulses with matter. Between 2004 and 2008, he took part in The UK Attosecond Science Project – dedicated to the generation of ultra-short pulses of light and the study of their interaction with matter. In 2009 he received the title of professor. Appreciating the new, multidisciplinary research horizons available thanks to synchrotron centers, he supported the initiative of building a synchrotron in Poland for many years. In 2010, after the Jagiellonian University obtained funds from the Innovative Economy Programme for the construction of the National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS, he became the project manager. After its completion, from 2015 to 2023, he served as the director of the Centre. In 2016, he was awarded the City of Krakow Award in the field of science and technology.

Since 2022, he has been delegated by the Ministries of Science and Higher Education to work at the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).