Curriculum Vitae Name: Alina Ciach Address: Institute of Physical ...

Name: Alina Ciach
Address:
Curriculum Vitae
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
01-224 Warszawa
Kasprzaka 44/52
Poland
phone: (48)(22) 343 3242
E-MAIL: aciach@ichf.edu.pl
FAX:48 (22) 343 33 33; 48 (22) 632 52 76
Eduction and professional positions:
• M.Sc., 1979 – Department of Physics, University of Warsaw
• Ph.D., 1986 – Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
• 1987 – Institute of Theoretical Physics, Trondheim University, Norway (Postdoctoral
Research Fellow, Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)
• 1988 – Department of Physics, University of Essen, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt
Research Fellow)
• D.Sc., 1994 – Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
• Associate Professor, 1995 – Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
• Professor, 2002 – Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw
Research interests:
Statistical mechanics of complex systems, in particular: self-assembling systems,
ionic fluids, effects of boundaries and confinement on structure and thermodynamical
properties of simple and complex fluids.
Invited lectures and seminars at scientific institutions:
Center of Theoretical Physics, PAS, Warsaw (3), Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart (2), Institute
of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw (8), Institute of Fundamental Thechnogical
Research, PAS, Warsaw (3), Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Ukrainian National
Academy of Sciences, Lviv, University of Bristol (2), ENS Lyon, Institute of Low Temperature
and Structure Research, PAS, Wroclaw, University of Lisbon (2), Max-Planck Institute
Berlin, Technische Universitat Berlin, University of Munich, University of Essen (2)
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Invited Lectures at International Conferences (since 2000):
• Alina Ciach and George Stell: “Criticality and tricriticality in ionic systems”, 21st
IUPAP International conference on Statistical Physics, STATPHYS 21, Cancun, Meksyk
15-20. 07. 2001
• Alina Ciach: “From ’living polymers’ to ionic crystals: effects of charge-density fluctuations
in ionic systems” NATO Advanced Research Workshop Ionic Soft Matter: Novel
trands in theory and applications, Lviv, Ukraine, 14-17 04.2004, invited lecture
• A.Ciach, W.T. Gó´zd´z and G. Stell “Mesoscopic theory for highly charged colloids in pure
water”, invited lecture, 16th International thermophysics conference, Boulder, USA,
30.07-04.08.2006
• A. Ciach,“Mesoscopic theory for highly charged colloids”, ESF exploratory workshop
“Chains: The Limit of Neutrality”, Compiegne, Francja, 14-17 09. 2006.
• A. Ciach, “Phase transitions and pretransitional effects in the primitive model of ionic
systems. Results of the field-theoretic approach”, CECAM international workshop
“Fluid phase behaviour and critical phenomena from liquid state theories and simulations”,
Lyon 05-07 07. 2007
• A. Ciach, “Mesoscopic theory for soft-matter systems”, 3rd conference Statistical Physics:
Modern Trends and Applications (dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of Prof. M.M.Bogolyubov),
June 23-25, 2009 Lviv, Ukraine; plenary lecture
Grants:
• “Surfactant-containing solutions” grant No 2P30302007, State Committee for Scientific
Research, Principal investigator; completed 1997
• “Structure on the nanoscale in magnetics, alloys, fluids and biological membranes” grant
No T09A07316, State Committee for Scientific Research, Principal investigator; completed
2002,
• “Effect of geometry and topology of confining surfaces on structure and phase transitions
in simple and complex fluids”, grant No 4T09A06622, State Committee for Scientific
Research, Co-investigator; completed 2005
• “ Effect of self-assembly on phase equilibria in complex systems”, grant No 1 P03B033
26, State Committee for Scientific Research, Principal investigator; completed 2007
• Structure of nanomaterials from the first-principles theory, grant No N N202 006034
State Committee for Scientific Research, Principal investigator;
• Mesoscopic theory of nanomaterials inspired by biological systems, grant No N N204 24
240534, State Committee for Scientific Research, Co-investigator
International collaboration:
• University in Essen, Germany, prof. Hans W. Diehl
• State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA, prof. George Stell
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• Bristol University, Great Britain, prof. Robert Evans (scientific colalboration between
Polish and Academy of Sciences and Royal Society)
• Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the Ukraninian National Academy of Sciences,
Lviv, Ukraine, prof. Ihor Mryglod and Dr. Oksana Patsahan (scientific colalboration
between Polish and Ukrainian Academies of Sciences)
• Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matiére Condensée, Unievrsity P. and M.Curie,
Paris, Dr. Aurelien Perera (POLONIUM)
• Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano of the Consejo Superior de Investigationes
Cientificas in Madrid, prof. Enrique Lomba (scientific colalboration between Polish
Academy of Sciences and CSIS)
Textbook:
R. Holyst, A.Poniewierski and A.Ciach “Thermodynamics for chemists, physicists and
engineers” UKSW-publishing house (2005) (in Polish) (author of the Part III: Introduction
to Statistical Thermodynamics)
Supervised PhD theses and postdocs:
• Amphiphilic Systems in Restricted Gometry Dr. Mykola Tasinkevych, 1999 (currently
at the Max-Planck Institut Stuttgart)
• Bicontinuous cubic phases in slit-like pores Dr. Volodymyr Babin, 2003 (currently Department
of Physics, North Carolina State University)
• NATO postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Zoryana Usatenko, 2003 (Humboldt fellowship in 2006)
Selected recent papers
1. A.Macio̷lek, A.Ciach and A.Drzewiński Crossover between the ordinary and normal transitions
in 2d critical Ising films Phys.Rev.E, 60, 2887 (1999)
2. A.Ciach and G.Stell, Effect of competition between Coulomb and dispersion forces on
phase transitions in ionic systems J.Chem.Phys., 114, 3617 (2001)
3. A.Ciach and G.Stell, Why the Ising and continuous-space models of ionic systems exhibit
essentially different critical behavior, J.Chem. Phys. 114, 382 (2001)
4. V.Babin, A.Ciach and M.Tasinkevych, Capillary condensation of periodic phases in selfassembling
systems J.Chem.Phys., 114, 9585 (2001)
5. A.Ciach and G.Stell, Criticality and tricriticality in ionic systems Physica A, 306, 220
(2002) (invited lectures, IUPAP conference STATPHYS 21)
6. A.Ciach, W.T. Gó´zd´z and R.Evans, Effect of a nearby charge-ordered phase on correlation
functions in ionic systems J.Chem.Phys., 118, 3702 (2003)
7. A.Ciach Effect of charge-density fluctuations on the order-disorder transition in the lattice
restricted primitive models of electrolytes, Phys. Rev. E, 70, 046103 (2004)
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8. A. Ciach, Universality class of the critical point in the restricted primitive model of ionic
systems, Phys.Rev.E 73, 066110 (2006)
9. A. Ciach, W.T. Gó´zd´z and A. Perera, Simple three-state lattice model for liquid water,
Phys.Rev.E,78, 021203 (2008)
10. A. Ciach, Universal sequence of ordered structures obtained from mesoscopic description
of self-assembly, Phys.Rev.E,78, 061505 (2008)
Referee for the journals:
Phys. Rev. Lett, Phys. Rev., J. Chem. Phys., J. Phys. Chem., J. Phys. A, J.Phys.
Condens. Matt, and others
Awards and Honors:
• Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences award for studies on the structure of interfaces
(with J.Stecki and J.Dudowicz) 1985
• Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS award for the Ph.D thesis “Statistical Mechanics
of Interfaces” 1986
• Awards for the best publications in the Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS (1994, 1995,
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008)
• Member of the Polish Chemical Society since 2002
• ’Golden Cross of Merit’ granted by the president of Poland (2005)
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