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Curriculum Vitae


Marcin Kostur
Institute of Physics
University of Silesia
40-007 Katowice, Poland
e-mail: marcin.kostur@us.edu.pl
tel: +48 32 359 1360


  • 1971 born
  • 1990-1991 chemisty study at the University of Silesia in Katowice
  • 1992-1995 physics study at the University of Silesia in Katowice
  • 1995 MSc in theoretical physics
  • 1995-1999 Ph.D. student in the Institute of Physics at the University of Silesia.
    • 1995 one year stay at Department of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Manchester University, UK.
    • 1998 DAAD scholarship at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany under supervision of prof. Lutz Schimanski-Geier.
    • 1999 Ph. D. degree in theoretical physics, Ph. D. thesis "Noise induced transport: the numerical study".
  • since 1999: lecturer position in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Silesia
    • 2000-2001, post-doc at Humboldt University in Berlin,Germany at the research group of prof. Lutz Schimanski-Geier.
    • 2001-2003 post-doc at University of Maine,USA in the research group prof. Dean R . Astumian.
    • 2003-2007 post-doc at University of Augsburg, Germany in the research group prof. Peter Hänggi.
  • 2009 habilitation

Major research interests

  • stochastic processes
  • Brownian ratcher, molecular motors
  • microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip, chaoric advection
  • Josephson Junctions
  • numerical methods
  • parallel computing


Publications and citations:

  • Number of published papers: 35
  • Number of citations: 485

(according to Web of Knowledge in the time span 1996-2009) • h-index: 14



Curriculum Vitae