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Antoni Rogalski (born June 12, 1946 in Wojdal [1]) is a Polish electronics engineer, professor at the Military University of Technology [2], and a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences [3].

In 1972, he graduated with a degree in Technical Physics from the Faculty of Chemistry and Technical Physics of the Military University of Technology (MUT) in Warsaw. His scientific, teaching and organizational activities are associated with the Institute of Technical Physics (ITP) of the MUT. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1976, was habilitated in 1982, was deputy director from 1984 to 1988, and director of the ITP from 1988 to 2002. From 1994 to 2015, he also headed the Solid State Physics Department at the ITP [4,5], collaborating with Vigo System S.A. and conducting joint research and implementation work [6]. These resulted in the expansion of Vigo’s production offerings – world-renowned Polish manufacturer of infrared detectors. In 1990, he was awarded the title of professor of technical sciences. In 2004 he was elected a correspondent member, in 2013 a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2015 to 2022, he was dean of Faculty IV of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences [7-9]. He was also a member of the Central Commission for Degrees and Titles [10] in 2013-2016, a member of the Prime Minister’s Award Panel in 2016-2023 [11], and a member of the Euro-CASE Board of the European Council of Applied Sciences Technologies and Engineering [12].

In the course of his long-standing scientific activity, he has held many extended overseas research internships the most important of which are visiting professor positions at Belgrade University (Belgrade, 1987), Northwestern University (Evanston, USA, 1995), University of Western Australia (Perth, 2007 and 2013) and Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, 2023-2024). He also held the position of adjunct professor at the Center for Quantum Devices Northwestern University (Evanston, USA) from 2009 to 2013.

Prof. A. Rogalski is one of the most internationally recognized Polish scientists. In the prestigious ranking of Stanford University and Elsevier publishing house of the most influential 2% of scientists in the world (TOP 2%) published in the journal PLOS Biology (19-10-2021) [13], he is ranked third among living Poles with Polish affiliation, while in the practiced scientific discipline Optoelectronics and Photonics – second in the world.

The subject of Prof. A. Rogalski’s scientific activity is the technology of obtaining, studying the properties and applications of semiconductors for the detection of electromagnetic radiation, mainly in the infrared range. His scientific achievements are documented by: 15 monographs of global publishing houses, more than 330 papers in indexed journals cited from 13,000 to more than 23,000 with a Hirsch index from 48 to 62 depending on the type of database (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar) [14]. His book Infrared and Terahertz Detectors (reprinted three times, Taylor @ Francis Publishers, USA) [15], translated into Russian and twice into Chinese, has become the world’s most popular monograph on infrared and terahertz detectors. Equally valuable are his papers on alternative materials for the design of infrared detectors including two-dimensional materials (graphene derivatives) some of which occupy positions of the most read and cited papers in such prestigious journals as Progress in Quantum Electronics, Journal of Applied Physics, Reports on Progress in Physics and in Infrared Physics and Technology (citation over one thousand) [16].

For his scientific achievements, he was awarded the title of Fellow [17] of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Bellingham (USA), in 1995. In 1997 he was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in the field of technical sciences [18]. In 2006, he received the M. Pluta Award of the Polish Section of SPIE. He also received the Minister of Defense Awards for Scientific Achievement (2008) [19], for Lifetime Scientific Achievement (2014) [20], and the First Degree Award for the best scientific work and implementation in the field of defense (2017) [21]. In addition, in 2017 he received the Scientific Award of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences [22]. In 2010, he was included in the Golden Book of Achievements of the Military University of Technology.

Prof. A. Rogalski has been an academic teacher for more than 50 years, promoter of ten doctoral theses, member of scientific committees of several scientific journals with international circulation, invited author of scientific journal papers and invited author of conference plenary papers (including more than 80 international conferences [23]), organizer and chairman of international scientific conferences, as well as chairman of sessions of these conferences. From 1997 to 2015, he served as editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Opto-Electronics Review with the highest impact factor among Polish technical journals [24,25]. From 2004 to 2022, he also served as deputy editor-in-chief, and since 2023 he has been editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Technical Sciences [26].

He was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit in 1986, the Knight’s Cross in 1993 [27], and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2022 [28].

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Antoni Rogalski

Ph.D., D.Sc., Ordinary Member PAN

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Antoni ROGALSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc.

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