Invited Speaker

Janusz Tobola is a professor at the AGH University of Krakow, where, since 2024, he has headed the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science. He obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from AGH in 1994. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the CNRS center in Grenoble (1994–1997), working at the Laboratoire de Cristallographie and the Laboratoire de Magnétisme Louis Néel. He specializes in ab initio electronic structure calculations for complex crystalline systems (both ordered and disordered), focusing on magnetic, superconducting, transport, and electrochemical properties. For nearly thirty years, his research has centered on thermoelectric materials (Half-Heusler and Chevrel phases, skutterudites, silicides and stannides, tetrahedrites, and argyrodites). He has authored nearly 200 peer-reviewed publications resulting from collaborative projects with research groups primarily from Poland and France, as well as from Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Cyprus and USA. He has served on the board of the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) and is currently a board member of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS). In 2024, he served as co-chair of the joint ICT/ECT conference held in Kraków.