Dr. Paweł Tecmer of the Institute of Physics, NCU, has been announced as a new member of the Council for Young Scientists ("Rada Młodych Naukowców"), an advisory body of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
The tenure of office of the Council for Young Scientists of the 6th term will run from March 1, 2018 to March 1, 2020. Its main task is to promote and support the career development of young researchers in Poland. The council has 18 members. All members have to be under 35 years of age and have significant scientific achievements.
A complete list of members of the Council of Young Researchers can be found here.
Dr. Paweł Tecmer did his undergraduate (chemometrics, Bachelor's degree 2006) and graduate studies (general chemistry, Master's degree 2008) at the Faculty of Chemistry, NCU in Torun. For his PhD studies, he joined the group of Prof. Lucas Visscher at the Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011, he visited the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, USA, for one month. In 2012, he defended his PhD thesis in the field of quantum chemistry, entitled "Towards reliable modeling of excited states of uranium compounds". After his PhD studies, Dr. Tecmer accepted a post-doc research position at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he was working on quantum chemical modelling of lanthanide compounds. After one year, he joined the group of Prof. Ayers at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, to develop new electron correlation methods for strong correlation. In 2016, he returned to Poland and started working at the Department of Quantum Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, NCU in Torun. Dr. Tecmer has been awarded a SONATA and POLONEZ fellowship.
Dr. Tecmer's research focuses on quantum chemical modelling of heavy-element compounds, the analysis of electronic structures using concepts of quantum information theory, and the development of novel electron correlation methods.