Position: Professor at Polish Academy of Sciences,            Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Head,  Department of Anisotropic Structures of the home Institute, Head,  X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory ,(3D)at the same institution, Address: 25 Reymonta Str., 30-059 Krakow                tel.: ++48 12 295 2871                fax: ++48 12 295 2804                e-mail: nmbonars@imim-pan.krakow.pl

Dr. Jan Bonarski  PhD, D.Sc.

• 1981 – M.Sc. – metal physics, AGH-University of Science and Technology, Krakow, 
• 1990 - Ph.D. – metal physics, AGH-University of Science and Technology, 
• 2002 - D.Sc. – materials engineering, Aleksander Krupkowski Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.

Crystallographic texture and stress analysis, Microstructure characteristics of the near-surface layers, X-Ray texture tomography, Fatigue wear of constructing elements, Functionally graded materials and Natural polymers, X-Ray diffraction and acoustic examination of materials, Computer programming

• Observations of the magneto-X-ray Kerr effect (1989),

• Elaboration of the Incomplete Pole Figures Intensity (IPFI) method of quantitative phase analysis for texturized materials (1998),

• Solution to the non-destructive investigation of texture inhomogeneity in the near-surface layers by introducing the X-Ray Texture Tomography method (2001)

• Inventing (together with Dr. J. Guśpiel) a textural electric cell (2005, patent proposal BPP/3902/CH5/2004)

• Construction of a prototype, mobile apparatus for non-destructive inspection of microstructure degradation of steel-structure elements in exploitation conditions (2010)

• Author and co-author of above 110 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings, 

• Author of the computer programs in the field of Material Engineering,

• Member of the Research Group rewarded with a Gold Medal of the 53^rd World Exhibition on Innovation Eureka 2004 in Brussels for invention of the Implantable Pneumatic Heart Assist System POLVAD with flexible polyurethane construction coated with the titanium nitride (Ti-N) nanolayer, 

• Director of the grants of The State Committee of Scientific Research and The National Centre for Research and Development (1995, 2000, 2005 and 2007, respectively), 

• Supervisor of bilateral international cooperation programs: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, Russia, Ukraine

• Supervisor of a few diplom works and doctoral thesis,

• Chairman of the international  Symposium on Texture and Microstructure Analysis (SOTAMA) held in Krakow,  periodically: 2004, 2007

Experience gained abroad:

• 1992-1993 (DAAD scholarship) - Institute für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, TU Clausthal in Clausthal Zellerfeld, Germany. 
• 1996 research training on 3D texture analysis at the Institute für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, TU Clausthal, Germany. 
• 1999-2001 WAXS and SAXS experiments carried out in the Synchrotron Laboratory ELETTRA in Trieste (Italy) in co-operation with the Vienna University.
• 2006 research training in the field of Scanning Acoustic Microscopy at Krämer Scientific Instruments GmbH, Herborn, Germany.
• 1999-2006 research co-operation with the Vienna University, Faculty of Physics.
  
• Since 2010 investigation of 3D-characteristics of microstructure of graded materials at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron Lab. in Hamburg.
  

Selected publications:

• Jan Bonarski and Jan Karp; The magneto-x-ray Kerr effect in ferritic steel, J.Phys.:Condens.Matter 1 (1989), 9261-9266.

• J. Bonarski and A. Morawiec; Determination of Texture Inhomogeneity in Near-Surface layers. Experimental Verification, J.Appl.Cryst. 25 (1992), 624-627.

• J. Bonarski, L. Wciślak, H.J. Bunge; Investigation of Inhomogeneity Textures of Coatings and Near-Surface-Layers, Materials Science Forum, 157-162 (1994), 111.

• J. Bonarski, W. Olek, K. Pawlik; Textures of natural Polymers - Wood, Proc. ICOTOM-11 Eleventh International Conference on Textures of Materials, Xi’an, China 1996, Ed. Liang Zhide, Zuo Liang and Chou Youyi, International Academic Publishers, Beijing, China, 2 (1996), 1215.

• J. Bonarski, H.J. Bunge, L. Wciślak, K. Pawlik; Investigation of Inhomogeneous Surface Textures with Constant Information Depth: Part 1: Fundamentals, Textures and Microstructures, 31, No 1-2 (1998), 21-41.

• J. Bonarski, M. Wróbel and K. Pawlik; Quantitative phase analysis of duplex stainless steel using incomplete pole figures, Materials Science and Technology, 16 No 6 (2000),  657.

• J. Bonarski, M. Zehetbauer, Z. Świątek, I.M. Fodchuk, I. Kopacz, S. Bernstorff and H. Amenitsch; Structural Disturbances of Near-Surface Areas in Silicon Solar Cell Modified by P⁺ Ion Implantation and Thermal Treatment, Opto-Electronics Review, 8 No 4 (2000),  323.

• J. Bonarski and L. Starczewski; Texture and stress symptoms of tribological wear, Proc. of EUROMAT 2000: Advances in Mechanical Behaviour, Plasticity and Damage (Elsevier Science Ltd.), 1 (2000), 579.

• W. Truszkowski and J. Bonarski; On the Imperfection of Crystallographic Orientation in FCC Single Crystals, Z. Metallkd. (Carl Hanser Verlag), 91, 12 (2000), 1030.

• J. Bonarski; Rentgenowska Tomografia Teksturowa, Book, ed. by IMIM PAN, Kraków (2001).

• J.Bonarski and I. Alexandrov;  Severely plastically deformed Ti from the standpoint of texture changes, In M.J. Zehetbauer, R.Z. Valiev Ed. Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation. WILEY VCH Verlag & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, (2004), 309-314. 

• J. Bonarski; Non-destructive testing of FGM-made structural elements. Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, Vol. 50, 2 (2005), 535-542. 

• Jan T. Bonarski; X-ray texture tomography of near surface areas. Progress in Materials Science, 51 (2006), 61-149. 

• Jan Bonarski and Wiesław Olek; Texture function application for wood ultrastructure description. Part 1: theory. Wood Science and Technology, 40, 2 (2006), 159 – 171.

• Jan T. Bonarski; Non-invasive investigation tool of functionally graded materials. In: Foundation of Materials Design, Eds. K.Kurzydłowski, B. Major and P. Zięba, (2006) 157 – 174.

• J. Bonarski, J. Pospiech; The effect of heavy deformation on the structure of Mg-AZ31 alloy at ambient and elevated temperatures. Inżynieria Materiałowa, 3 (2010), 491 – 494.

• J.T. Bonarski, I. Alexandrov, V. Sitdikov, L. Tarkowski, J. Grzonka and M. Bieda-Niemiec; Texture/stress characteristics of microstructure used in interpreting deformation effects of Ti subjected to ECAP process. Proc. ITAP-3 conf. 2009 (Goettingen), Trans Tech Publications: Solid State Phenomena Vol. 160 (2010) pp 103-108.

• Jan T. Bonarski & Wiesław Olek; Application of the crystalline volume fraction for characterizing the ultrastructural organization of wood. Cellulose, 18 2 (2011) 223-235.