Jan Figiel

Prof. dr hab. Jan Figiel Born: 27-Nov-1948, Cracow, Poland Studies: 1971, graduate in physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Pl Ph.D: 1975, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Pl, “Production of pi-0 mesons in K+p interactions at 8.2 GeV” Habilitation: 1989, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Pl, “Hadronisation of partons in muon-nucleon interactions at 280 GeV/c” Professor: 2002, from the President of Republic of Poland Research and teaching positions: 1971 – 1975 Research assistant, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Pl 1975 – 1989 Assistant Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Pl 1976 – 1977 Scientific associate, CERN, Geneva, CH 1981 – 1983 Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany 1990 – 2002 Associate Prof. (Docent), Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Pl 1989 – 1991 Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut, Munich, Germany 2003 – Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Pl In between: lectures at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Pl, supervision of 2 PhD theses (one completed with distinction) Major management positions: 1996 – 2016 Coordination of the 6 Polish State Committee for Scientific Research and Ministry of Science and Higher Education grants 2008 – 2010 Head of the Hadron Structure Department of the Institute of Nuclear Physics Other: 2003 – member of the Scientific Council of INP Cracow 2009 – 2018 editor in Central European Journal of Physics/Open Physics 2011 – 2014 member of the Committee for Evaluation of Scientific Units, Ministry of Science and Higher Education 2015 – expert of the National Science Centre 2017 – Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recent research: E665 experiment at Tevatron, FNAL: investigation of mu-p and mu-nucleus interactions: diffraction, vector mesons, hadronic final states, nuclear shadowing. ZEUS experiment at HERA, DESY: diffraction, vector mesons, QCD, Design, MC simulation and testing of the luminosity monitor ALICE experiment at LHC, CERN: study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities in heavy ions and p-p collisions: diffraction etc. Author (co-author) of over 400 publications.