Maciej Pieczarka, Former Research Fellow, The Australian National University
Dr Maciej Pieczarka is currently a research fellow at FLEET Partner, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. He won a START scholarship for young Polish Scientists of Foundation for Polish Science. Dr Pieczaka was an experimental physicist working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University in Prof Elena Ostrovskaya’s group.
Maciej studied exciton-polariton condensates within FLEET research theme 2, focusing on dynamical condensation and phase transitions of exciton-polariton fluids created in semiconductor microcavities. He also investigated excitations such as vortices and solitons in nonlinear fluids of light.
Maciej background in novel optoelectronic materials and devices is particularly useful in FLEET’s study of optimisation of microcavities containing 2D materials for room-temperature operation of polariton lasers.
