ProfessorCzesław Rudowicz

Professor

A graduate of AMU - here he defended his master's thesis (1970) and doctoral thesis (1974). Since leaving the country in 1978, he worked first at universities in Nigeria (1978-80) - as the so-called Polservice’s specialist, and Germany (1980-82) - as a scholarship holder of the Humboldt Foundation. He obtained his habilitation through Adam Mickiewicz University in 1989, based on the achievements gained at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, where he worked in the years 1982-1989. He received the academic title of Professor of Physical Sciences in December 2002, also through AMU, on the basis of the achievements gained at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), where he worked in 1989-2005, including from 1995 as Professor (Chair) in Physics.

Since returning to the Poland in 2005, he worked at the West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) [until 2009 - Szczecin University of Technology] until September 2018. From August 2014, he lives again in Poznań. Since March 2015, he has been Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry, AMU.

He is the author or co-author of nearly 270 publications in the field of theoretical and experimental solid state physics and chemistry. The scientific achievements also include a number of extensive review articles, including in Magnetic Resonance Review (1987), Applied Spectroscopy Reviews (2001) and more recently Coordination Chemistry Reviews (2015). These works have received numerous citations, as evidenced by the Hirsch index 41.

Emeritus Professor, City University of Hong Kong (since June 2008)

    Other important aspects are worth mentioning:

    • Founder President (since 1997; for life) & Immediate Past President (2004-08): Asia-Pacific EPR / ESR Society
    • Advisory / Editorial Boards Membership: Appl. Mag. Reson.; Physica B; Indian J. Pure & amp; Appl. Physics
    • Honorary Professorship: CityU, Hong Kong (2005/08); Hong Kong Institute of Education (2010)
    • Fellow of the American Physical Society (Forum on International Physics), since Nov 2004.
    • President, Polish EPR Society (April 2007 - May 2010); Chairman, Polish EMR Group (May 2010 - present)
    • Emeritus Professor, City University of Hong Kong (since June 2008)

Research interests include, inter alia foundations of the spin Hamiltonian theory and electron magnetic/paramagnetic resonance (EMR/EPR) spectroscopy, crystal field theory and optical spectroscopy, the theory of magnetocrystalline anisotropy and magnetism. It is worth noting that in the last decades the above-mentioned fields have become the basis of many research in the field of chemistry, which are also carried out by scientists at the Faculty of Chemistry, AMU.

Ten Most Representative Publications 2009-2020 (with citation [C:] as of Dec 2020)

  1. M. Karbowiak, C. Rudowicz, T. Ishida, “Determination of Crystal-Field Energy Levels and Temperature Dependence of Magnetic Susceptibility for Dy3+ in [Dy2Pd] Heterometallic Complex”, Inorg. Chem., 52, 13199-13206 (2013); dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic4021542.  C: 9
  2. M. Karbowiak, J. Cichos, and C. Rudowicz, "Comment on the Crystal-field Analysis Underlying "Breakdown of Crystallographic Site Symmetry in Lanthanide-Doped NaYF4 Crystals", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 54, 1074-1076 (2015); DOI: 10.1002/anie.201408640  C: 2
  3. C. Rudowicz and M. Karbowiak, “Disentangling intricate web of interrelated notions at the interface between the physical crystal field Hamiltonians and the effective spin Hamiltonians”, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 287, 28-63 (2015); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2014.12.006. C: 48
  4. M. Karbowiak and C. Rudowicz, "Ground state of Ho atoms on Pt(111) metal surfaces: Implications for magnetism", Phys. Rev. B 93, 184415, pp. 1-7 (2016); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.184415. C: 4
  5. M. Karbowiak, C. Rudowicz, and J. Cichos, "Extension of High-Resolution Optical Absorption Spectroscopy to Divalent Neodymium: Novel Absorption Spectra of Nd2+ Ions in Strontium Chloride Host SrCl2", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 10721-10724 (2017); http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201704559; C: 4 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ange.201704559
  6. A. Gorczyński, D. Marcinkowski, M. Kubicki, M. Löffler, M. Korabik, M. Karbowiak,  P. Wiśniewski, V. Patroniak, and C. Rudowicz, "New field induced single ion magnets based on prolate Er(III) and Yb(III) ions: tuning the energy barrier Ueff by the choice of counterions within N3-tridentate Schiff-base scaffold", Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 5, 605-618 (2018). DOI: 10.1039/c7qi00727b). C: 14
  7. M. Kozanecki, C. Rudowicz, H. Ohta, T. Sakurai, "High-frequency EMR data for Fe2+ (S = 2) ions in natural and synthetic forsterite revisited - fictitious spin S' = 1 versus effective spin S~ = 2 approach", J. Alloys and Compounds, 726, 1226-1235 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2017.07.227). C: 0
  8. C. Rudowicz, P. Gnutek, M. Açıkgöz, “Superposition Model in Electron Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - a Primer for Experimentalists with Illustrative Applications and Literature Database", Applied Spectroscopy Reviews, 54/8, 673-718 (2019); doi.org/10.1080/05704928. 2018.1494601. C: 1
  9. C. Rudowicz, K. Tadyszak, T. Ślusarski, “Modeling spin Hamiltonian parameters for Fe2+ adatoms on Cu2N/Cu (100) surface: Semiempirical microscopic spin Hamiltonian approach.”, J. Mag. Mag. Mat., 485, 381–390 (2019). doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.04.099 C: 1
  10. M. Kozanecki, C. Rudowicz, “Importance of the fourth-rank zero field splitting parameters relative to the second-rank ones for Fe2+ (S = 2) adatoms on CuN/Cu(100) surface evidenced by their determination based on the DFT calculated spin energy levels”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 22, 19837-19844 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CP02986F C: 0