Andrzej Kossakowski
Andrzej Marek Kossakowski is a Polish physicist and a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.Career
Andrzej Kossakowski was born on 20 February 1938 in Lviv, Poland. He attended a primary and secondary school in Sopot, Poland. In the years 1955-1960, he studied physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Right after graduation, he got a job at the same university, first as an assistant, then as an older assistant in 1962. In 1966, he defended his PhD thesis titled On the entropy increase law in informational thermodynamics of density operators, which was written under the supervision of Roman Stanisław Ingarden during the scientific internship in the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Wrocław in the academic year 1964/1965. In 1967, he was employed at the Nicolaus Copernicus University as an Assistant professor. In 1971, he habilitated, and his habilitation work is titled Informational decision scheme in statistical quantum mechanics. He got promoted to docent in 1972, and after three years he became an associate director of the Institute of Physics in didactics.. In 1992, he became a professor. Andrzej Kossakowski taught at the universities in Stuttgart Austin, Milan, Essen, Leuven, Naples, Santiago de Chile, and Tokio.
In 2019, Andrzej Kossakowski received the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in the field of mathematics, physics, and engineering for his works on the theory of open quantum systems.Most influential publications
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