Interests:
Banach spaces and their operators; geometry of Banach spaces
Ideals and representations of operator algebras and, more generally, Banach algebras
Applied probability, Risk measures, Financial markets, Python modelling.
Grants:
2019–2021 Principal investigator of the GAČR project 19-07129Y:
Metody lineární analýzy v operátorových algebrách a naopak
(Eng. Linear-analysis techniques in operator algebras and vice versa).
Postdoctoral researchers in the project:
- Szymon Draga (2019),
- Bence Horváth (2019-present),
- Jarosław Swaczyna (2020-2022)
Longer research visits:
March 2018
University of Cambridge, Peterhouse.
February – April 2014
Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto
Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras.
Employment:
September 2017 – present
Researcher at the Department of Abstract Analysis
Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
January 2016 – September 2017
Research Associate at Mathematics Institute employed from the ERC Advanced Grant Local Structure of Sets, Measures and Currents (PI: David Preiss, FRS),
University of Warwick, England.
September 2015 – December 2015
Temporary Lectureship in Mathematics,
University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
September 2014 – September 2015
Temporary Lectureship in Mathematics,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, England.
January – September 2014
WCMCS post-doctoral fellow (assistant professor),
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
October 2010 – November 2013
General teaching assistant,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, England.
Scientific titles:
June 2020
Habilitation, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
A series of papers under the joint title: Surjective images and ideals of Banach algebras with an emphasis on algebras of operators on Banach spaces
October 2010 – November 2013
PhD in Mathematics, Lancaster University. Thesis: Closed ideals of operators on Banach spaces of continuous functions, 196 pp defended on November 5th, 2013,
Supervisor: Niels J. Laustsen, Examiners: T Alastair Gillespie and Graham Jameson.
October 2019 – October 2021
MSc studies on Computer science, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Master's Thesis: Methods of Topological Data Analysis in Decision Theory
Supervisor: Tomasz Wachowicz (final grade equivalent to First Class).
October 2005 – June 2010
Integrated MSc studies on Pure Mathematics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Master's Thesis: On the applications of Martin's Axiom
Supervisor: Aleksander Błaszczyk (final grade equivalent to First Class).
September 2002 – June 2015
I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Waleriana Łukasińskiego, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.
Other activities:
• I am a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH.
• I also serve as an expert for the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.
• Occasionally, I contribute to Mathoverflow and Mathematics StackExchange.