Birthdate & Birthplace: January 17, 1957, Działdowo, Poland
Status: Polish National, Permanent Resident in the USA
Education: Warsaw University Warsaw Poland 1980—1984
Nicolaus Copernicus University Toru´n Poland 1975—1980
Academic Degrees: Professor of Physical Sciences 2003
Doctor Habilitatus Physics Warsaw University 1997
Ph.D. Physics Warsaw University 1987
M.Sc. Astronomy Nicolaus Copernicus University 1980
Appointments: California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Senior Research Scientist, January 2003—Present
European Southern Observatory, Garching bei M¨unchen, Germany
Associate Astronomer, August 1999—December 2002
European Space Agency/NASA Planck Mission, Planck Scientist, and
Co-Investigator, October 1997—Present
Teoretisk Astrofysik Center, Kobenhavn, Denmark
Associate Professor, June 1996—August 1999
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Raytheon STX, Greenbelt, MD
Chief Scientist, August 1995—inactive employee since July 1996
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Universities Space Research Association
Senior Research Scientist, February 1993—August 1995
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Visiting Research Scholar, October 1992—January 1993
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France
Visiting Fellow—Poste Rouge, March 1992—October 1992
University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL
Visiting Scholar, October 1991—February 1992
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Universities Space Research Association
Consultant with the COBE Science Team, March 1991—January 1993
Princeton University, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, and
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Science, Princeton, NJ
Visiting Research Fellow, March 1991—October 1991
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos, NM
Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, February 1989—April 1991
University of California at Berkeley, Astronomy Department, Berkeley, CA
Postdoctoral Fellow, June 1986—February 1989
Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Research Assistant, 1984—1986, Research Associate, 1986
Scientific Interests: Physical Cosmology, Cosmic Background Radiation, Large-Scale Structure of
the Universe, Galaxy Formation, Gravitational Lensing, Computational
Astrostatistics, Structure of, and Science Extraction from Large Astronomical
Data Repositories, Development of the Virtual Observatory
