Marek Cieplak
Professor
physics
Polish Academy of Science
Poland
Biography
"Born: December 8, 1950, Warsaw, Poland. Citizenship: Polish.education: D.Sc., 1984, Warsaw University, Poland Thesis: Nature of ordering in spin glasses Ph.D. 1977, University of Pittsburgh, USA Thesis advisor: Frederic Keffer Thesis: Theoretical problems in magnetism M.Sc., 1973, with honors Physics Department, Warsaw University Research advisor: Jaroslaw Piasecki Thesis: Correlation functions in van der Waals fluids.Employment In Poland 1973-1989 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University since 1989 Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science Full Professor since 1995"
Research Interest
"Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1998 Professor of the Month of June at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, awarder by the Alpha-Kappa-Phi Sorority, July 2001 Member of the executive board of Division of Physics in Life Science www.dpl.risoe.dk On the editorial board of ""Fractals"" and Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter four Ph.D. students eight M.Sc. students More than 1800 citations, including: 111 for Nature of ordering in spin glasses, J. R. Banavar and M. Cieplak, Phys. Rev. Lett. 832 (1982); 108 for Molecular origins of friction: The force on absorbed layers, M. Cieplak, E. Smith, and M. O. Robbins, Science, 1209 (1994); 101 for Fundamental patterns underlying gene expression profiles: simplicity from complexity, N. S. Holter, M. Mitra, A. Maritan, M. Cieplak, J. R. Banavar, and N. V. Fedoroff, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 8414 (2000); 94 for Critical phenomena in fluid invasion of porous media, N. Martys, M. Cieplak, and M. O. Robbins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1058 (1991) 5 Polish KBN grants"
