Assistant University

CURRICULUM VITAE

Piotr Decowski

Department of Physics

Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063-1000

413-***-**** (office), 413-***-**** (FAX)

email: *********@*****.***

web: http://www.science.smith.edu/~pdecowsk

Education:

Ph.D., 1967, University of Warsaw

MSc, 1961, University of Warsaw

Expertise:

Experimental nuclear and hadron physics

Employment history:

2011 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Adjunct Professor of Physics

2011 - Smith College, Professor Emeritus of Physics

1990 - 2011 Smith College, Professor of Physics

1988 - 1991 University of Warsaw, Poland, Professor of Physics

1986 - 1990 University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, Senior Researcher (on leave

from University of Warsaw)

1981 - 1984 Center of Nuclear Research, Juelich, Germany, Visiting Researcher

(on leave from University of Warsaw)

1975 - 1977 Michigan State University, Assistant Professor of Physics (on leave

from University of Warsaw)

1973 - 1988 University of Warsaw, Poland, Associate Professor of Physics

1969 - 1973 University of Warsaw, Poland, Assistant Professor of Physics

1968 - 1969 University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, International Atomic Energy

Agency Fellow (on leave from University of Warsaw)

1964 - 1969 University of Warsaw, Poland, Senior Research Assistant

1963 - 1964 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR, Scientific

Researcher (on leave from University of Warsaw)

1961 - 1964 University of Warsaw, Poland, Research Assistant

Services:

1970 - 1973 Head of the Nuclear Physics Division in the Institute of the

Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw

1978 - 1981 Deputy director of the Institute of the Experimental Physics,

University of Warsaw

1974 - 1975 and 1977 - 1981

Member of the Main Board and the Secretary

General of the Polish Physical Society

1978 - 1981 Member of the Main Council of the European Physical Society

1990 - 1994 Member of the Five College Physics Working Group

1994 - 1995 President of the Smith Chapter of the Sigma XI Society

1994 - 1998 Member of the Executive Committee of the New England Section of

the American Physical Society

1995 - 1998, 1999 2000, fall 2004 Chair of the Department of Physics, Smith

College

2004 - 2006 Member of the Administrative Board, Smith College

2005 - 2008, 2009 - 2010 Member of the Tenure and Promotion Committee,

Smith College

2006 - 2009 V-Chair, Chair, and Past Chair of the New England Section of the

American Physical Society

2009 Chair of the Nominating Committee of the New England Section of

the American Physical Society

Participation in advisory and judgment procedures:

PhD and MSc theses supervision (5 PhD s in Warsaw and 2 in Utrecht,

~10 MSc s in Warsaw and 3 in Utrecht)

participation in the judgment of PhD theses and habilitation dissertations

(~25 in total), scientific publications and peer reviews of scientific

achievements.

referee of journals with international circulation: the Physical Review and

the Physical Review Letters, Europhysics Letters

member of NSF grant panels

referee of NSF grants

member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of the Experimental

Physics (University of Warsaw), 1973 - 1987

member of the Scientific Council of the Warsaw Heavy Ion Cyclotron

Laboratory, 1980 - 1981

Recent External Grants:

* NSF Research Opportunity Award, $28,459 May 1994

* NSF Research at Undergraduate Institutions Grant, $32,861 June 1996

* NSF Research at Undergraduate Institutions Grant, $110,319 May 1999

* NSF Research at Undergraduate Institutions Grant, $114,831 August 2002

* NSF Research at Undergraduate Institutions Grant, $132

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