CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME:
                            Tomasz Szarek
DATE OF BIRTH:
                            September 19, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH:
                            Rzeszów, Poland
FAMILY STATUS:
                            Married, two children

OFFICE ADDRESS:
                            Institute of Mathematics Gdansk University
                            Wita Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland
HOME ADDRESS: 
                           Rybaki Górne 4/1, Gdansk

EDUCATION:

• The title of Professor, July 2008
• Jagiellonian Unniversity, Cracow, Habilitation in mathematics, 2004, The title of dissertation: Invariant measures for nonexpansive Markov operators on Polish spaces;
• Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ph. D. in mathematics, 1997, The title of dissertation: Asymptotic stability of Markov operators acting on measures in Polish spaces, supervisor – Prof. Andrzej Lasota;
• Academy of Theology, M. Sc. in philosophy, 1998;
• Silesian University, M. Sc. in mathematics, 1994;
• Silesian Technical University, M. Sc. in technical sciences, 1992;

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS:

• 2009- Full Professor, Institute of Mathematics, University of Gdansk.
• 2008 Fall Semester \ Visitor in Dept. of Math. North Texas University in Denton.
• 2006- 2009 University Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University, Katowice
• 2004-  2006 \ Adjunct (Assoc. Professor), Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University, Katowice
• 2003 - 2004\ Adjunct (Assoc. Professor), Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Katowice;
• 2001 - 2003 \ Post-doc position, Dipartimento di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, Università di L’Aquila, Italia;
• 2000 - 2001 \ Adjunct (Assoc. Professor), Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Katowice;
• 1997 - 2000 \ Adjunct (Assoc. Professor), Institute of Mathematics, Silesian University;

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: lectures for undergraduates:

1. Mathematical Analysis;
2. Probability Theory;
3. Stochastic Processes;
4. Measure Theory. 

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

1. Asymptotic behaviour of Markov processes;
2. Multifractal properties of invariant measures;
3. Stochastic differential equations;
4. Diffusion processes on fractal sets;
5. Fractal sets;
6. Superprocesses.

INTERESTS:

• Theology, philosophy and literature ;

AWARDS:

• 2005 - Awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences the W. Sierpiński Prize.
• 1997 - Prize of the M. Wacławek foundation for the doctor's thesis;
• 1991 - Prize for the best Polish student Primus inter pares;