Degree: Professor
Position: Professor
Division: Astrophysics II (Warsaw)ORCID: 0000-0003-1667-7334
Office: 135
Phone: +48 223296135
E-mail: sikora@camk.edu.pl
Marek Sikora is a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center (CAMK) in Warsaw.
He has been associated with CAMK, where he is currently employed part-time as an emeritus professor, for many years: here he completed his doctorate in astronomy (which was first at CAMK, 1980); received habilitation in astrophysics (1990); and eventually was awarded the title of Professor of Physical Sciences (1999).
His research regards the astrophysics of high energies and focuses on large-scale outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). A more extensive description can be found in the book “Across the Universe. Research at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences” (Warsaw 2020, pp. 72-73).
The list of and links to his publications can be found in NASA ADS database. One of the best cited works (about 1100 times) is "Comptonization of diffuse ambient radiation by a relativistic jet: the source of gamma rays from blazars?" (DOI: 10.1086/173633).
Prof. Sikora supervised the work of five doctoral students: Prof. Rafał Moderski (CAMK); Dr. Michał Błażejowski; Prof. Krzysztof Nalewajko (CAMK); Dr. Maitrayee Gupta (IRAP, France); Dr. Katarzyna Rusinek-Abarca.
