Collaborators
Leepsa Mishra
Leepsa obtained her Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology in Patna in August 2023. In her thesis, she studied charge and energy transfer between semiconductor nanocrystals and small molecules. She then joined Texas A&M University as a postdoc working on 2D semiconductors. She joined the Klopotowski group in December 2024. Her project focuses on the spectroscopy of single I-III-VI and lead halide perovskite nanocrystals and quantum dots.
Bożena Sikora
Bożena graduated from Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University in 2008. She then joined the team of Danek Elbaum at the Institute of Physics and did her Ph.D. on design and properties of biosensors based on colloidal ZnO and upconverting NaYF4 nanoparticles. She defended her thesis in 2014. Since then she is working on applications of up-converting nanoparticles
in photodynamic therapy.
Oksana Volnianska
Oksana started her Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics under Piotr Bogusławski in 2009. She worked on theory of impurity-induced magnetism in bulk semiconductors. She is now investigating the impact of dopants on the band structure of semiconducting nanocrystals.
Magdalena Duda
Magda graduated from the University of Warsaw in 2018. Her Master’s work focused on applications of upconverting nanoparticles in cancer therapies. Afterwards, she started her Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics. She is engineering the properties of I-III-V group compound nanocrystals for applications as ultrasensitive fluorescent nanothermometers. She is also working on evaluating the stability and toxicity of these materials.
Pushkar Joshi
Pushkar graduated from the National Institute of Technology in Silchar, India in 2020. His Master thesis was devoted to studies of photocatalytic activity of TiO2. In 2021, he joined the group of Łukasz Kłopotowski at the Institute of Physics as a Ph.D. candidate. His research focuses on the light emission mechanism of double perovskite nanostructures and their possible applications in energy harvesting devices.
Adam Ćwilich
Adam graduated from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw. He started his Ph.D. in January 2023. His work is focused on fundamental properties of I-III-VI nanocrystals. His tour de force is single nanocrystal spectroscopy. He is also involved in synthesis and preparation of QDs conjugated with electron withdrawing molecules.
Magdalena Podgórska
Magda is a student at the University of Warsaw. She defended her bachelor thesis on this and this and and that. She currently pursues a Master’s degree in a joint project between University of Warsaw and Institute of Physics, PAS. In her project, she will evaluate the potential of I-III-VI quantum dots for applications in super-resolution microscopy.
Jakub Majewski
Jakub obtained his Bachelor degree from the Technical University of Warsaw. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in a joint project between University of Warsaw and Institute of Physics, PAS. His work is focused on developing fluorescent nanothermometers for the cryogenic temperature range.
Maciej Olczak
Maciej is a student at the University of Warsaw. He joined the team for a summer practice in 2024 during which he successfully synthesized, highly emissive Bi- and Yb-doped double perovskite powders. Currently, he is pursuing his Bachelor degree in a joint project with the University of Warsaw. His topic is change-point analysis of photoluminescence fluctuations of semiconductor nanocrystals.
External collaborators
The group of prof. Wojciech Gawełda at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
The group of prof. Milena Arciniegas at the Istituto Italiano di Nanotecnologia, Genova.
The group of prof. Wojciech Gadomski at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw.
The group of prof. Adam Proń at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Technical University of Warsaw.
The group of Paulina Plochocka at Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Toulouse and Wrocław University of Technology.
The Laboratory of Ultrafast MagnetoSpectroscopy at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw.
Prof. Sebastian Maćkowski from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Dr. Kamil Sobczak at the Laboratory of Microscopy and Electron Spectroscopy, Biological and Chemical Research Center, University of Warsaw.
Past collaborators
Prof. Allison Dennis from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Magdalena Parlińska-Wojtan from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Claudia Backes from the Applied Physical Chemistry Department of Heidelberg University.
Valia Voliotis from the Institut Des NanoSciences De Paris.
Łukasz Cywiński from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Members of the laboratory of growth and physics of low dimensional structures at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences.