Alina Ciach,
 Professor
  • M.Sc., 1979 - Department of Physics, University of Warsaw

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  • Ph.D., 1986 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw

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  • D.Sc., 1994 - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Warsaw

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  • Professor 2002

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 Education and training:
  • 1997 - Institute of Theoretical Physics, Trondheim University, Norway (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research)

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  • 1998 - Department of Physics, University of Essen, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow)

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 Research areas:
  • Statistical mechanics of complex systems

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  • Special fields: self-assembling systems, ionic fluids, effects of boundaries and confinement on structure and thermodynamical properties of simple and complex fluids
 
 Selected papers:
  1. Stecki J., Ciach A. and Dudowicz J., Intrinsic properties of the two-point functions of the solid-on-solid interface, Phys. Rev. Lett., 56, 1482-1484 (1986).

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  2. Ciach A., Hoye J. and Stell G., Microscopic model for microemulsion, J. Phys. A, 21, L777-L782 (1988).

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  3. Diehl H.W. and Ciach A., Surface critical behavior in the presence of linear or cubic weak surface fields, Phys. Rev. B, 44, 6642-6662 (1991).

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  4. Ciach A. and Poniewierski A., Description of the geometrical and topological structure in amphiphilic systems, Phys. Rev E, 52, 596-601 (1995).

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  5. Ciach A., Maciołek A. and Stecki J., Critical Adsorption in the Undersaturated Regime. Scaling and Exact Results in the Ising Strip, J. Chem. Phys., 108, 5913 (1998).

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  6. Ciach A. and Stell G., Effect of competition between Coulomb and dispersion forces on phase transitions in ionic systems, J. Chem. Phys., 114, 3617 (2001).

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  7. Babin V., Ciach A. and Tasinkevych M., Capillary condensation of periodic phases in self-assembling systems, J. Chem. Phys., 114, 9585 (2001).

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  8. Ciach A. and Stell G., Effect of space discretization on phase diagrams in ionic systems; field theoretic approach, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 60601 (2003).

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  9. A. Ciach, W.T. Góźdź and G. Stell, Mesoscopic theory for size- and charge-asymmetric ionic systems: I. The case of extreme asymmetry, J. Phys. Cond. Matt. 18, 1629 (2006)

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  10. Ciach A. Universality class of the critical point in the restricted primitive model of ionic systems, Phys. Rev. E 73, 066110 (2006)

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Total number of publications: 65
Number of promoted PhD students: 2
 aciach@ichf.edu.pl