After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie


Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.
Lise Meitner

Projects

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Calorimetry for the Electron Ion Collider

The future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will enable studying the proton’s structure with unprecedented levels of precision, and electromagnetic calorimetry is critical to reach its ambitious physics goals.

Deep Inelastic Scattering at CLAS12

Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) processes are sensitive to the orbital momenta of quarks inside the proton. Collisions of high-energy electrons can be used to study the 3-dimensional internal structure of nucleons.

Studying the proton spin structure with STAR

How the spin of a nucleon arises from the spins and orbital angular momenta of quarks and gluons? This fundamental question in hadron physics remains not completely answered. Experiments with polarized proton-proton collisions can bring us closer to the comprehensive understanding of the internal spin structure of matter.

Polarimetry for storage ring EDM experiments

The origin of the matter-antimatter imbalance in the universe is one of the grand puzzles of modern physics. Searches for Electric Dipole Moments of charged hadrons within the JEDI collaboration can shed the light on the new sources on the CP-symmetry violation which could explain the observed preponderance of matter in our world.

Diffractive interaction of protons at CDF

Central exclusive production processes are characterized by large regions in forward rapidity devoid of hadrons, and a centrally produced state, in our case pairs of charged mesons. This class of reactions measured at TeV energies has an important role in meson spectroscopy, favoring states having valence gluons, such as glueballs.

Probing the proton mass with WASA

The fact that up and down quarks have slightly different masses has quite some impact on our existence, resulting in the proton being heavier than the neutron, and therefore stable. Net effects of quark-mass differences can be studied in hadronic reactions such as those measured with the WASA-at-COSY experiment.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
March 2021 – Present
Lemont, IL, USA

Assistant Physicist

Argonne National Laboratory

Collaboration: ePIC, CLAS12, and STAR

  • Leading calorimetry R&D for the ePIC detector at the Electron Ion Collider.
  • Investigating the proton spin structre with the STAR and CLAS12 experiments.
 
 
 
 
 
July 2018 – March 2021
Berkeley, CA, USA

Postdoctoral Researcher

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Collaboration: STAR

  • Led analysis towards understanding the gluon contribution to proton spin with longitudinally polarized proton-proton collisions at excess energy 200 GeV.
 
 
 
 
 
January 2017 – July 2018
Jülich, Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Center Jülich

Collaboration: JEDI

  • Investigated polarized deuteron-carbon scattering with the WASA detector.
  • Obtained database of spin observables for a dedicated polarimeter for the search for electric dipole moments of charged particles at a storage ring (srEDM).
 
 
 
 
 
October 2013 – November 2016
Jülich, Germany

PhD Student

Research Center Jülich

Collaboration: WASA-at-COSY

  • Prepared and coordinated dedicated beamtime for the charge symmetry breaking reaction $dd\rightarrow{^4\text{He}}\pi^0$ measurement.
  • Measured for the first time the differential cross-section and quantitatively interpreted obtained results by means of partial wave analysis.
 
 
 
 
 
October 2011 – July 2013
Cracow, Poland

MSc Student

Jagiellonian University

Collaboration: WASA-at-COSY

  • Designed modification of the WASA detector setup for optimal measurement of the the $dd\rightarrow{^4\text{He}}\pi^0$.
  • Granted ten-week-long dedicated beamtime by the COSY Program Advisory Committee.
 
 
 
 
 
October 2010 – July 2013
Cracow, Poland

Teaching Qualifications

Jagiellonian University

Level: Middle schools and high schools

  • Completed coursework in pedagogy, psychology, and didactics of physics.
  • Taught high-school and middle-school physics classes including curriculum preparation for pupils with special needs.
 
 
 
 
 
July 2010 – May 2015
Batavia, USA

Summer Intern/Visiting Scientist

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Collaboration: CDF

  • Analyzed dedicated low-luminosity dataset at the CDF experiment.
  • Observed central exclusive $\pi^+\pi^-$ production for the first time at excess energy of 1.96 and 0.9 TeV.

Selected Publications

For a complete list of publications, see my INSPIRE-HEP author profile.
(2022). ATHENA detector proposal—A Totally Hermetic Electron Nucleus Apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider. In: JINST (17).

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(2021). Longitudinal double-spin asymmetry for inclusive jet and dijet production in polarized proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV. In: Phys. Rev. D Letters (103) (Editors’ Suggestion).

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(2020). A new beam polarimeter at COSY to search for electric dipole moments of charged particles. In: JINST (15).

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(2018). Importance of d-wave contributions in the charge symmetry breaking reaction $dd \to {}^4\text{He}\pi^0$. In: Phys. Lett. B (781).

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(2015). Measurement of central exclusive $\pi^+ \pi^-$ production in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 0.9$ and 1.96 TeV at CDF. In: Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communications) 91.

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(2014). Charge symmetry breaking in dd$\rightarrow$$^4$He$\pi$$^0$ with WASA-at-COSY. In: Phys. Lett. B (739).

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Outreach

To push further the frontier of our knowledge, we, as a community of scientists, cannot forget how essential popularization of science is. We can build state-of-the-art experimental facilities and create revolutionary theories and ideas, but as long as we do not have a diverse generation of enthusiastic young people with a critical-thinking attitude to continue our work, we cannot expect to achieve any long-lasting progress.

STEM outreach and education is an essential part of my mission as a scientist. See below some examples of my activity.

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Strong Interactions podcast

Strong Interactions is a podcast about exploring a new frontier in nuclear physics at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider, by Maria Żurek and Markus Diefenthaler.

Teaching and Content Development

Promoting STEM and sharing the joy of science with students and general audience is one of my passions.

Early-career scientist associations

Throughout my career, I’ve been heavily involved in initiatives supporting early-career scientists.

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U.S. Department of Energy has launched a series of virtual meetings with scientists from the US National Labs. In this video, I talk about my research at Berkeley Lab and Brookhaven National Laboratory, collaboration with scientists from all over the world, and motivation to pursue a career in STEM.

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My 3-min long presentation about messy protons during the finals of the Berkeley Lab Science SLAM 2019.

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During the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 2019 I had a chance to discuss the topic of aiming for a career in science with 3 Nobel Laureates in Physics Donna Strickland, Bill D. Phillips, and Wolfgang Ketterle, fellow LiNo participant Niamh Kavanagh, and STEM career consultant Alaina G. Levine.

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