Our Division
Staff
Arkadiusz Błaut – dr hab., prof. Uwr (Head of division)
Research: gravity, cosmology, gravitational waves, astrophysics
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 927
Mail: arkadiusz.blaut [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Tomasz Pawłowski – dr hab., prof. Uwr
Research: quantum cosmology, quantum gravity, black hole theory
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 9251
Mail: tomasz.pawlowski [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Giacomo Rosati – dr hab.
Research: Quantum Gravity Phenomenology, Non-commutative field theory
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel.+48 71 375 – 9415
Mail: giacomo.rosati [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Remigiusz Durka – dr
Research: gravity, supergravity, algebraic enlargements, Taub-NUT spacetime, symbolic computations in GR and theoretical physics
Publications: ORCID + inspire + researchgate
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – 9415
Website: remigiuszdurka.wordpress.com
Mail: remigiusz.durka [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Falk Hassler – dr
Research: string theory, its inherent dualities, integrable models, conformal field theories and their implications for quantum gravity
Publications: ORCID + inspire + google scholar
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9241
Website: fhassler.de
Mail: falk.hassler [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Jakub Jankowski – dr
Research: high energy physics, climate
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel.+48 71 375 – ….
Mail:jakub.jankowski [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Aleksander Kozak – dr
Research: Extended theories of gravity
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 9407
Mail: aleksander.kozak2 [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Eric Lescano – dr
Research: String Dualities and String Cosmology
Publications: INSPIRE
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9390
Mail: eric.lescano [email at] uwr.edu.pl
David Osten – dr
Research: Integrable models, Dualities, Extended field theories, String and M-Theory
Publications: inspires + ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – …
Website: Website
Mail: david.osten [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Wiesław Sobków – dr
Research: time reversal violation (CP violation); neutrino nature; nonstandard interactions at low energies; neutrinos in astrophysics and cosmology; nature of dark matter
Publications: ORCID + researchgate + publons + Researcher ID: W-1040-2018
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-….
Mail: wieslaw.sobkow [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Tomasz Trześniewski – dr
Research: quantum gravity, gravity in 2+1 dimensions, quantum groups and noncommutative geometry, nonlinear phase spaces, non-Lorentzian kinematics
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – 9241
Mail: tomasz.trzesniewski [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Aneta Wojnar – dr
Research: gravity, theoretical astrophysics, GR extensions, thermodynamics of gravitational systems, Big Bang nucleosynthesis
Publications: inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – ….
Mail: aneta.wojnar2 [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Website: Website
Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman – prof. dr hab.
Research: gravity, quantum gravity
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9390
Mail: jerzy.kowalski-glikman [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Andrzej Borowiec – prof. dr hab.
Research: gravity, cosmology, quantum groups and quantum spaces, modified gravity
Publications: ORCID + inspire + Google Scholar + ResearchGate + ift
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9406
Mail: andrzej.borowiec [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Jerzy Lukierski – prof. dr hab. (Professor emeritus)
Research: Noncommutative geometries: quantum-deformed phase spaces, Hopf algebras, generalizations of Snyder models. Quantum deformation of twistors, new ideas in quark model with Z_3-graded symmetries.
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9452
Mail: jerzy.lukierski [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Zbigniew Haba – prof. dr hab. (Professor emeritus)
Research: mathematical methods of quantum field theory, in particular functional integrals, work on inflation models within the context of dark matter or dark energy
Publications: ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9432
Mail: zbigniew.haba [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Andrzej Frydryszak – dr hab., prof. UWr (Professor emeritus)
Research: classical fields, supersymmetry, nilpotent formalisms, quantum
correlations, quantum entanglement
Publications: ORCID + google scholar
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 9472
Mail: andrzej.frydryszak [email at] uwr.edu.pl
PhD Students
Tadeusz Adach – PhD student
Research: Noncommutative spacetime, Noncommutative field theory, Deformed Special Relativity
Publications: ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 71 375-9407
Mail: tadeusz.adach [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Débora Aguiar Gomes – PhD student
Research: Theoretical foundations of gravity, Cosmology, Stellar physics
Publications: inspire
PhD thesis realized at: University of Tartu, Estonia
Michał Bobula – PhD student
Research: Quantum gravity, Black holes, Quantum Information Theory
Publications: ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – 9407
Mail: michal.bobula [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Achilleas Gitsis – PhD student
Research: String Theory, Dualities in String Theory, Generalised Geometry
Publications: ORCID+inspire
Contact: tel. +48 57 19 44 316
Mail: 338733 [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Maciej Kowalczyk – PhD student
Research: Loop Quantum Cosmology, Loop Quantum Gravity
Publications: ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – 9407
Mail: 288948 [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Patryk Mieszkalski – PhD student
Research: Noncommutative spacetime, Noncommutative differential calculus, Quantum groups, Quantum gravity
Publications: ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – 9397
Mail: patryk.mieszkalski [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Michał Popiel – PhD student
Research: Noncommutative spacetime, Deformed Special Relativity, Quantum groups
Publications: ORCID+ResearchGate
Contact: tel. +48 51 286 – 7211
Mail: michal.popiel [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Marcin Postolak – PhD student
Research: Scalar-tensor Cosmology, Modified theories of gravity
Publications: ORCID + researchgate
Contact: tel. +48 71 375 – 9407
Mail: marcin.postolak [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Luca Scala – PhD student
Research: string theory, quantum groups, noncommutative spacetimes, quantum gravity
Publications: ORCID + inspire
Contact: tel. +48 57 19 44 316
Mail: 339123 [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Alex Swash – PhD student
Research: string theory, dualities, compactifications
Publications: ORCID
Contact: tel. +48 57 19 44 316
Mail: alex.swash [email at] uwr.edu.pl
Present division students
Grzegorz Dziewisz
Master thesis in preparation: “Concept of Mass in Extensions of General Relativity”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar
Estimated time of defense: 2025
Nachiket Jhala
Master thesis in preparation: “Entanglement Entropy and Quantum Groups”
Supervisor: Andrzej Borowiec
Estimated time of defense: 2025
Rene Payne
Master thesis in preparation: “Positive Energy Theorem for Finite Regions in Supergravity”
Supervisor: Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
Estimated time of defense: 2025
Niko Klag
Bachelor thesis in preparation: “Searching for the Dark Sector of the Universe in Stars”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar
Estimated time of defense: 2026
Marcin Klinkosz
Bachelor thesis in preparation: “Exoplanets as a Tool for Probing New Physics”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar
Estimated time of defense: 2026
Sebastian Marczyński
Bachelor thesis in preparation: “Light elements burning in low-mass stars”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar
Estimated time of defense: 2026
Dhrubajyoti Rakshit
Scientific project: “Neutron stars in modified gravity”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar, Aleksander Kozak
Estimated time of defense: 2025
Visiting professors
Jackson Levi Said
University of Malta
Public Lecture: “Probing New Physics through novel machine learning techniques”
Visitor of: Aneta Wojnar
Visiting stay: 05.05.2025-09.05.2025
Davi Rodrigues
Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitória, Brazil
Public Lecture: “Astrophysical Data: Galaxy Dynamics, Dark Matter, and the Hunt for Modified Gravity”
Visitor of: Aneta Wojnar
Visiting stay: 25.09.2025-18.10.2025
Visiting students
Adam Kaczmarek
J. Długosz University, Częstochowa, Poland
Project: “Condensed matter and gravity”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar
Visiting stay: 05-08.11.2024
Anna Horváth
Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
Project: “Stars in Kaluza-Klein theory”
Supervisor: Aneta Wojnar
Visiting stay: 01-29.03.2025
Staff List
- dr hab. Arkadiusz Błaut (Head of division)
- dr hab. Tomasz Pawłowski, prof. UWr
- dr hab. Giacomo Rosati
- dr Remigiusz Durka
- dr Falk Hassler
- dr Jakub Jankowski
- dr Aleksander Kozak
- dr David Osten
- dr Wiesław Sobków
- dr Tomasz Trześniewski
- dr Aneta Wojnar
- prof. dr hab. Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
- prof. dr hab. Andrzej Borowiec
- prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Haba
- prof. dr hab. Jerzy Lukierski
- dr hab. Andrzej Frydryszak, prof. UWr
PhD Students (name, starting year)
- mgr Tadeusz Adach (2021)
- mgr Michał Bobula (2021)
- mgr Achilleas Gitsis (2022)
- mgr Maciej Kowalczyk (2021)
- mgr Michał Popiel (2024)
- mgr Marcin Postolak (2021)
- mgr Luca Scala (2022)
- mgr Alex Swash (2023)
Former members of the Division:
- Zbigniew Jaskólski (2018 †)
- Marcin Daszkiewicz (2019 †)
- Ziemowit Popowicz (retirement 2021)
The whole staff of the Wrocław’s Institute of Theoretical Physics:
