Curriculum Vitae - Krzysztof Markowicz Adress: Institute of Geophysics Warsaw University               02-093 Warsaw, ul. Pasteura 7, Poland               Phone: [+48] (22) 55 46 836                Fax: [+48] (22) 822 23 87  e  -mail: kmark@igf.fuw.edu.pl home page: http://www.igf.fuw.edu.pl/meteo/stacja Personal Details:               Date and Place of birth: 12 April 1974, Rzeszów, Poland              Marital Status: Single Qualifications:              Degree: Master of Atmospherics Physics, Warsaw University 1999                             Ph.D.  of Atmospherics Physics, Warsaw University 2003              Positions:  Adiunct (assistant professor) Warsaw University, Institute of Geophysics

Education:

• 2003 Ph. D, Physics Department, Warsaw University, “Experimental Determination of Solar and Infrared Radiative Forcing”

• 1999 M.Sc, Institute of Geophysics, University of Warsaw, Atmospheric Science Group

Awards:

• Scholarship Foundation for Polish Science, 2005

• Scholarship Foundation for Polish Science, 2004

• Fulbright scholarship, 2001
• Bardwin-Otwinowska award for the M.Sc. thesis “The role of vorticity on cloud droplets concentration”  1999
• Scholarship of  Ministry of Education (1997)

• Polish Academy of Sciences Award for paper General features of climate of Strzyzow (1992).

• Polish Academy of Sciences Award for paper “Extinction of visible spectrum of solar radiation in the lower troposphere (1993) 

Recent Professional Activities:

• 2005 Saharan Dust Over Warsaw (SAWA)

• 2004 United Arab Emirates Unified Aerosol Experiment (UAE2)

• 2003 BALTEX Bridge Campaign, Holland

• 2001 MINOS  Crete, Greece

• 2001 ACE-Asia cruise, R/V Ronald H. Brown, Honolulu - Sea of Japan

• 1999 Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) R/V Ronald H. Brown

• Research on local Climate in Strzyzow

• Research in Institute of Physics PAN

• Research on ekstynction of solar radiation in lower troposphere.

Recent Collaborations and Research

• 2005-2009 QUANTIFY (Quantifying the Climate Impact of Global and European Transport System), Framework 6 – Integrated Project.

• 2005-2007 Co-principal investigator of KBN grant, Investigation of the spectral optical properties of the atmospheric aerosol and the radiative forcing.

• 2004-2006 Principle Investigator of NICOP (Naval International Cooperative Opportunities in Science and Technology Program) “Validation and Data Assimilation for the Navy Transport Models: NAAPS and COAMPS/Transport”

• 2004-present, developed and performed observation at radiative transfer station in Strzyzow.

• 2002 June-November Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey

• 2002 February-June Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD

• 1998-1999 role of turbulence on cloud microphysics

• 1985-1992 developed and performed observations at the amateur meteorological station in Strzyzow

 Interest

• aerosol and climate, 

• radiative transfer

• meteorological instruments