Karol Życzkowski#


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

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