Karol Życzkowski#
| Membership Number: | 3794 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://chaos.if.uj.edu.pl/~karol |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2005 - Professor of Physics at Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
- 2004/05 - One-year visiting researcher position at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada
- since 1999 - professor at Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
- 1997 - 1998 Senior Fulbright Fellowship with Prof. Ed Ott at University of Maryland, College Park (USA)
- 1991 - 1998 Adjunct at Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
- 1989 - 1990 Humboldt Fellowship at Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Essen (Germany) in the group of Prof. Fritz Haake
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear dynamics and classical chaos
- Random matrices and quantum chaos
- Quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement
- Quantum information processing
- Mathematical physics
- Numerical range and operator theory
- Complex Hadamard matrices and applications
- Econophysics and financial mathematics
- Scientometry and bibliometry
- Voting power and voting systems
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Award of Rector of the Jagiellonian University for the series of papers on mathematical foundations of quantum information theory
- 2007: Award of Rector of the Jagiellonian University for the monograph Geometry of Quantum States published by Cambridge University Press in 2006
- 1997 Senior Fulbright Fellowship
- 1995 Prime Minister Award for outstanding habilitation thesis defended in 1994 (only 4 such awards were granted in Poland that year)
- 1989 Humboldt Fellowship
