Degree: Professor
Position: Professor
Functions: Chairman Of The Scientific Council
ORCID: 0000-0002-7596-4221
Office: 124
Phone: +48 223296124
Personal website: http://users.camk.edu.pl/ptz
E-mail: ptz@camk.edu.pl
Piotr Życki is a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK) in Warsaw.
He earned his Ph.D. at CAMK in 1995, after which he spent three years (1996-1998) at the Department of Physics at Durham University (UK), where he worked with Prof. Chris Done. He received his habilitation in 2002 and was awarded a title of professor in 2008.
He was deputy director of CAMK from 2006 to 2014, and its director from 2014 to 2022.
Prof. Życki participates in the Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics (ATHENA) project and, together with Prof. Agata Różanska, is a member of the Consortium Board of the Wide Field Imager (WFI) detector consortium.
His recent research concentrated on the problem of X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations often observed in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei (AGN).
Beside astrophysics as a science Prof. Życki is also interested in astronomical education. Since 1983 he has been occasionally giving talks for pupils and students, as well as teachers on both astronomical topics and how to present them to students. From 1983 to 1995, he was an active member of the Almukantarat astronomy club, which evolved from even earlier initiatives aimed at helping talented students to gain deeper knowledge in many branches of science, arts and technology.
The link to his publications included by the service NASA ADS can be found here.
