Krzysztof Kurek

Prof. dr hab. Eng. Krzysztof Kurek is the Director of the National Center for Nuclear Research. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics in the field of basic technical problems, specialization in Technical Physics in 1980. His interest in the issues of elementary particle physics, models of their interactions and quantum field theory resulted in his doctoral thesis entitled "Taking into account the influence of quark masses in description of the production of new hadrons at high energies in the framework of the parton model and quantum chromodynamics ”, defended at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw in 1986. He obtained the habilitation degree in 2012 on the basis of the monograph: "Understanding the Nucleon's Spin Structure. The Direct Gluon Polarisation Measurement at the COMPASS Experiment ”. In 2019 he was appointed professor. His research interests include:

Prof. dr hab. Eng. Krzysztof Kurek worked on high-energy physics experiments conducted with the use of a muon beam at the CERN European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva: New Muon Collaboration, Spin Muon Collaboration and Common Muon Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy (COMPASS). Since 2013, he has been a member of the Polish team in the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He is the author or co-author of over 250 publications in international scientific journals. At the National Center for Nuclear Research, he was the head of the PhD Studies and the Scientific Secretary of the NCBJ. From October 25, 2015, he is the director of NCBJ.