physicist, 2 years postdoctoral experience in Japan, LC, FTIR, DSC, Programing C, PASCAL, FORTRAN
cx...@nimc.go.jp
2 years of postdoctoral experience with National Institute in Japan
Major: Physics, FTIR spectroscopy, Liquid Crystals
Preferred job: permanent; laboratories or company / industry
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NAME
FIRST: Grzegorz LAST: Kruk
CURRENT ADDRESS
2-7-9-102, Higashi
Tsukuba
305 Ibaraki
Japan
home tel. +81 298 526005 after 9 p.m. Tokyo Time
PERMANENT ADDRESS
Wysoka 12A/146
41-200 Sosnowiec
Poland
E-MAIL
gk...@workmail.com
kr...@nimc.go.jp
EDUCATION:
Ph.D.
13th of December 1993, graduated from Trinity
College, University of Dublin, Ireland.
Thesis: FT Infrared Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals.
Papers:
A. Kocot, R. Wrzalik, G. Kruk, J.K. Vij, Molecular Materials,
v.1,
p.273-279, (1992).
A. Kocot, G. Kruk, R. Wrzalik, J.K. Vij, Liquid Crystals, v.12,
n.6,
p.1005-1012, (1992).
J.K. Vij, A. Kocot, G.Kruk, R. Wrzalik, R. Zental, Mol. Cryst. Liq.
Cryst.,
v. 14, p. 337-350, (1993).
G. Kruk, A. Kocot, R. Wrzalik, J.K. Vij, O. Karthaus, H. Ringsdorf,
Liquid
Crystals, v.14, n.3, p.807-820, (1993).
G. Kruk, J.K. Vij, O. Karthaus, H. Ringsdorf, Supramolecular Science,
v.2,
p.51-58, (1995).
6th of July 1989, graduated from Silesian University, Katowice,
Poland,
(specialization: experimental and applications of physics).
Degree of Magistri (Master) in Physics.
Thesis: Strong Thermal Lens Induced by Laser Light in Mixtures of
Organic Liquids with Ferrocene.
Published in Berichte der Bunsenges. Phys. Chem., v.94, p.417-420,
(1990)
by G. Kruk and Z. Gburski.
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:
Internal EC SCI*0291 project meeting, 1990, University of Dublin,
Ireland.
14th International Liquid Crystal Conference, 1991, Pisa, Italy,
(Presented 2 posters).
Internal EC SCI*0291 project meeting, 1992, University of
Manchester,
U.K., (Seminar).
Japanese Liquid Crystal Conference, 1998, Senri Life and Science
Center,
Senri-Chuo, Osaka, Japan (Oral Presentation).
EXPERIENCE
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Dec 1997 -> Dec 1999 STA Postdoctoral fellow with
National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research
Tsukuba, JAPAN
working for the project on:
Rewritable Full Color Recording on a Thin Solid Film
of a Cholesteric Solid.
Gained additional experience with:
Perkin Elmer Paragon 1000 Fourier Transform Infra-Red
spectrometer
JASCO / MICRO-20 FTIR microscope measurements in
transmission and reflectance modes
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) measurements using
SEIKO INSTRUMENTS DSC 120 S II system
HP 8453 UV-VIS spectrometer
TENCOR INSTRUMENTS Alpha-Step 300 Profiler
Thickness Measurements
Polarizing Optical Microscope measurements of cholesteric
compounds
High Pressure measurements of phase transitions in
dicholesteric derivatives (up to 2500 bar)
Papers:
Grzegorz Kruk, Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiro Matsuda and Yoshishige Kida,
"Optical and Thermal Properties of Cholesteric Medium Molecular Weight
Compounds Having the Same Number of Connecting Carbons While Different
Chemical Structures, JLCC 98' Conference Proceedings, p.312
Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Grzegorz Kruk and Hiro Matsuda
"Optical and Thermal Properties of Cholesteric Glass from Liquid
Crystalline Compounds with Medium-Molecular Weight", JLCC 98' Conference
Proceedings, p. 310
Grzegorz Kruk, Nobuyuki Tamaoki, Hiro Matsuda and Yoshishige Kida
"Optical and Liquid Crystalline Properties of Dicholesteryl
Derivatives having Different Linkage Configurations
of Hydrocarbon Analogues"
In press, Liquid Crystals vol. 26, 1999
N.Tamaoki, G.Kruk, H.Matsuda, "Optical and Thermal
Properties of Cholesteric Solid from Dicholesteryl
Esters of Diacetylenedicarboxylic Acid"
In press J. Mater. Chem. 1999.
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1988-1994 physicist, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland.
Duties:
1) preparing and explaining basic experiments on physics
for
undergraduate students.
2) writing computer programs for experiments
3) designing and performance supervising of new
experimental
setups for experiments within undergraduate course
4) supervising students performing their own experiments
5) supervising maintenance jobs on experimental hardware
6) assembling electronic hardware for experiments like
e.g.
interfaces for meters and also writing software in
ASSEMBLER
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1989-1990 part time teacher of programming in PASCAL and BASIC, III
Liceum
Ogolnoksztalcace im. A. Mickiewicza, Katowice, Poland.
Duties:
1) Installing software
2) Teaching programming in Pascal and Basic and also how to
run and operate other applications
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1991-1993 research student, EEE Department, Trinity College,
University of
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. (working for EC research project
SCI*0291
in cooperation with groups of University of Mainz and University
of
Manchester).
Duties:
1) Laboratory research on liquid crystals and discotic
liquid
crystals using FTIR spectroscopy equipment and
polarizing
microscopy including:
a) FTIR Spectrometer BIO-RAD FTS60A a Motorola 68000
based
system with IDRIS operating system
b) Programmable Intelligent Temperature Controller
Oxford ITC4
2) Writing software applications for data handling in
FORTRAN
3) Data handling and plotting on VAX/VMS (MATLAB), UNIX,
DOS
(EASYPLOT, WORD, LOTUS MANUSCRIPT)
4) Preparing seminars for internal project meetings and
conferences
5) Correcting tutorials
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Since March 1994 - Owner of home based business - "RAVEN" -
Translation & Interpreting Services
Cooperating with:
East European Business Center, Welling, London, Kent
International Language Engineering, Boulder, CO, USA (signed
contract)
Duties:
1) Interpreter
2) Accountant
3) Accountancy software developer
6+ years in translating technical texts, computer (hardware & software)
related
Among others '97 LANtastic's version by Artisoft.
PROGRAMMING: PASCAL, FORTRAN, C
EXPERIENCE WITH OPERATING SYSTEMS:
VMS, UNIX, DOS, RSX-11, CP/M, TOS, Windows 95
LANGUAGES: English-fluent, Polish-native.
OTHER SKILLS: driving license (Polish, International, Japanese), yacht
steersman license
INTERESTED IN:
programming, robotics, computer simulations, AI, optical computing,
space research.
OTHER FIELDS OF INTEREST:
sailing, skiing, driving & sightseeing, pop & rock music, movies, chess.
36 years old, married, 2 children (13&5)
CITIZENSHIP: Polish (NATO country).
Work Permit/Green Card/US Citizenship/visa
sponsorship required.
Visas/Green Cards required also for wife and
children.
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cx...@nimc.go.jp
2 years of postdoctoral experience with National Institute in Japan
Major: Physics, FTIR spectroscopy, Liquid Crystals
E-MAIL
gk...@workmail.com
kr...@nimc.go.jp
EDUCATION:
INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES:
Gained additional experience with:
HP 8453 UV-VIS spectrometer