Marek Korkusinski - Curriculum Vitae

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Main areas of interest:

• Theoretical condensed matter physics,
• Optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures,
• Correlations in electronic and electron-hole systems,
• Nanospintronics and quantum computing,
• Topological insulators and their realizations in semiconductor systems.

Education:

• 2004: Ph.D. - Physics Department, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;
  Thesis title: "Correlations in Semiconductor Quantum Dots",
  Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Pawel Hawrylak (Physics Department, University of Ottawa and Institute for Microstructural Scieneces, National Research Council of Canada).
• 1998: M. Sc. (with Honors) - Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland;
  Thesis title: "Analytical Methods in the Theory of Quantum Dots",
  Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Lucjan Jacak (Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology).

Positions held:

• December 4, 2006 - present: Associate Research Officer,
  Quantum Theory Group, Security and Disruptive Technologies (former Institute for Microstructural Sciences), National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A0R6
• October 5, 2005 - December 4, 2006: Assistant Research Officer,
  Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A0R6
• June 15, 2005 - September 15, 2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate,
  Physics Department, University of Ottawa,
  and Visiting Scientist, Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A0R6; supervisor: Dr. Pawel Hawrylak.
• July 20, 2004 - June 15, 2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate,
  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47907, USA; supervisor: Prof. Gerhard Klimeck.
• July 2000 - July 20, 2004: Visiting Scientist/Student;
  Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A0R6; supervisor: Dr. Pawel Hawrylak.

Professional experience:

• 2000 - 2003: teaching assistant at the University of Ottawa (Teaching Assistant of the Year Award in 2001),
• 2003: short visit to the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, working with Prof. Carlos Tejedor on a single quantum dot in a photonic cavity,
• 2001: short visit to the Department of Natural Sciences, Antwerp University (Belgium), working with Prof. F. Peeters on strain in self-assembled quantum dots,
• 1999: short visit to the Institute of Physics, Chair of Technical Physics, University of Wuerzburg, working with Dr. P. Hawrylak on Lanczos recursive methods in numerical simulations of the electronic structure of solids,
• 1998: three-month visit to the Institute of Semiconductor Technology, Technical University of Braunschweig, working with Prof. A. Schlachetzki on optical spectra and gain of quantum cascade and quantum wire lasers.

Computer skills:

• Operating systems:
  • Windows 95, XP - experienced user and administrator,
  • Apple Mac OS X - experienced user and administrator,
  • UNIX/Linux - experienced user, basic-level administrator
• Programming languages:
  • C/C++, FORTRAN77, Python - advanced and experienced programmer,
  • Java, Pascal, FORTRAN 90 - intermediate programmer,
  • Message Passing Interface (MPI) in parallel programming for computer clusters - advanced and experienced programmer.
• Markup languages: HTML, XML
• Other tools:
  • Document preparation system LaTeX with RevTeX extensions,
  • Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel,
  • Mathematical environments MATLAB, Mathematica, Maple,
  • Scientific graphic packages Origin, GNUplot, Surfer
  • Version control system CVS.

Lectures and invited talks:

1. "QNANO - Atomistic theory of semiconductor quantum dots and nanocrystals," Extreme Photonics - Nanophotonics Summer School, Ottawa, Canada, April 30 - May 4, 2012.
2. "Optical properties of self-assembled epitaxial quantum dots and nanocrystals from atomistic theory - multi-exciton generation", International Symposium "Controlling Spin at the Nanoscale," Ottawa, Canada, October 28-29, 2010.
3. "Atomistic calculations of optical properties of nanostructures - application to III-V and II-VI systems" - seminar at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, March 23, 2010.
4. "Multi-exciton generation in CdSe nanocrystals" - seminar at the Department of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland, March 26, 2010.
5. "Electrical spin manipulation and coded qubits in triple quantum dot molecules," an invited talk at the Fifth International School and Conference on Spintronics and Quantum Information Technology (SPINTECH V), Cracow, Poland, July 7-11, 2009.
6. "Atomistic theory of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures," an invited talk at the International Conference on Theoretical Physics, Dubna-Nano 2008, Dubna, Russia, July 7-11, 2008.
7. "Atomistic tight-binding calculations of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures," an invited talk at the CECAM Workshop "Computational approaches to semiconductor, carbon and magnetic nanostructures", Lyon, France, June 16-19, 2008.
8. "Optical detection of spin in semiconductor nanostructures", talk at the Coherent Spintronics Workshop, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, January 9-12, 2008.
9. "Atomistic calculations of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures", an Invited talk at the LDSN Workshop, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 18-22, 2007.
10. "Optical signatures of spin polarization of carriers In quantum dots", seminar at the Physics Department, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA, November 2007.
11. "Atomistic calculations of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures," seminar at the National Institute of Physics of Matter, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, September 10, 2007.
12. "Building semiconductor nanostructures atom by atom," invited talk at the Sixth International Conference on Low-Dimensional Structures and Devices, San Andres, Colombia, April 15-20, 2007.
13. "Atomistic calculations of the electronic structure of quantum dots," seminar at the Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, May 15, 2006.
14. "Atomistic simulations of strain and electronic structure of multimillion-atom nanostructures," Christmas Symposium, Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Physics, Ottawa, Ontario, December 19, 2005.
15. "Development of the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool (NEMO-3D) for multimillion-atom quantum dots," Quantum Information Workshop, Avoca Beach, Australia, February 2005.
16. "Exchange and correlations in lateral quantum dots," seminar at the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2003.
17. "Nano-spintronics: Single and coupled spin transistor," Nanoscience Workshop of the National Research Council of Canada, St-Sauveur, Quebec, 2002.

Presentations at international conferences:

1. "Spin-orbit induced bonding-to-antibonding transition of the hole ground state in artificial molecules," 29th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 27 - August 2, 2008.
2. "Topological Hunds rules and electronic properties of a triple lateral quantum dot molecule in a magnetic field," Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Saskatoon, Canada, June 17-20 2007.
3. "Spin-polarized multi-exciton complexes in quantum dots," International Workshop "Optical Properties of Low-Dimensional Systems," Ottawa, Canada, June 2, 2007.
4. "Optical properties of charged self-assembled quantum dots," 28th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Vienna, Austria, July 2006.
5. "Far -infrared absorption spectra of a negatively charged exciton in self-assembled quantum dots," Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 2006.
6. "Atomistic simulations in nanostructures composed of tens of millions of atoms: Importance of long-range strain effects in quantum dots," The Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show Nanotech 2005, Anaheim, California (USA), May 2005.
7. "Atomistic simulations in nanostructures composed of tens of millions of atoms," March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Los Angeles, California (USA), March 2005.
8. "Electron and hole states in the vertically coupled self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dot molecule," March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Montreal, Quebec, March 2004.
9. "Exchange and correlation effects in lateral quantum dots," March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Austin, Texas, March 2003.
10. "Optical detection of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of a single electron on a quantum ring," Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Charlottetown, PEI, 2003.
11. "Exchange and correlations in a few-electron quantum dot," Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Quebec City, Quebec, 2002.
12. "Coupling and entangling of electron and hole states in a quantum dot molecule," Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Victoria, BC, 2001.
13. "Entangled states of electron-hole complex in a single InAs/GaAs coupled quantum dot molecule," 10th International Conference on Modulated Semiconductor Structures, Linz, Austria, 2001.