Professor of Physics
Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Physics
AI. Lotnikow 32/46
PL - 02-668 Warsaw

Tel: 48 22 843 66 01
Fax: +48 22 843 09 26
E-mail: langer@ifpan.edu.pl

Born in Lódz (Poland) in 1947.

Scientific degrees: 1970 - MSc - Physics Dept. Warsaw University 1972 - PhD - Physics Dept. Warsaw University , 1978 - habilitation Physics Dept. Warsaw University, 1987 - Professor title (awarded by the President of Poland).

Employment: 1970-1978, Physics Department, Warsaw University, since 1978 - Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, (full Professor), 1993-2001- College of Science, (full Professor), 1999-2004– Advisor to the President of Polish Academy of Sciences.2005 - Deputy Minister at Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Society Technologies.

Scientific fields of interest: solid state physics (mainly semiconductors), nanotechnologies, nonlinear optics, information techniques.

Publications: Over 70 invited talks on physics at major international conferences, Over 160 physics research papers published in major international journals, 3 Patents and over 100 publications and lectures on science and science policy.

Teaching and scientific guidance: 12 MSc Theses guidance , 13 PhD Theses supervisor. Several years of graduate and undergraduate teaching in physics.

Major international activities: Honorary vicepresident of EUROSCIENCE (past Vicepresident - 6 years), member in Program and Advisory Committees of Int. Conferences in Physics (about 50 times), Polish Academy of Sciences delegate to European Science Foundation (6 years), Member of JRC Board of Governors, Member of ISTAG (2002-2004), Member of ESF-HLWG for the concept of ERC. Member of DG RES-HLEG for the impact of ERC

Major scientific awards and recognitions: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, USA - 1989 for a major contribution to the physics of defects and recombination phenomena in solids. Maria Sklodowska Curie Award - 1991 - highest indiv. award for physics and chemistry in Poland, Polish Academy of Science awards (Scientific Secr. of the Polish Ac. Sci - 5 times, Div. Mat. Phys. Chem - 2 times), Distinguished Lecturer of the Polish Physical Society –1995, Polonia Restituta (1998) medal and several other.

Longer term stays abroad: post doc. Stanford University, Stanford, USA (1972/73), Inv. Professor J. Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria (1985 and 1987), Distinguished Res. Fellow UMIST, Manchester, U.K (1990); NEC Laboratories (Tsukuba Japan) – consulting distinguished scientist (summer 1995), well over 100 lectures and seminars in research institutions worlwide (USA, U.K, Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, Mexico, France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary).