My main scientific interests:
I spent most of my career working on simulations of gasodynamical
processes in various astronomical objects (protostellar collapse,
stellar winds, supernova explosions, supernova remnants, collisions
of interstellar clouds, dynamics of disks in cataclysmic variables,
dynamics of protoplanetary disks, planet formation in protoplanetary
disks).
A few years ago I found that the real universe is even more interesting
than the virtual one, and since then I have been working on binary
systems in globular clusters, analysing light- and velocity curves,
and finding basic stellar parameters.
Other:
- public outreach: I have written several hundred popular science articles; significant
part of them as editor of, or freelance contributor to, major Polish
pop-science magazines Wiedza i Życie and Świat Nauki (Polish edition
of Scientific American). I am also a freelance contributor to the
science column of the Polish weekly Polityka.
