| Tomasz Skwarnicki | |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1958 |
| Fields: | Elementary particle physics High energy physics |
| Workplaces: | Syracuse University DESY Southern Methodist University CERN |
| Alma Mater: | Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences Jagiellonian University |
| Thesis Title: | A Study of the Radiative Cascade Transitions Between the Upsilon-prime and Upsilon Resonances |
| Thesis Url: | https://inspirehep.net/literature/230779 |
| Thesis Year: | 1986 |
| Known For: | pentaquarks |
| Awards: | Fellow of American Physical Society (2001) |
Tomasz Skwarnicki is a Polish-American physicist and professor at Syracuse University. He is known for his research on gravitational wave detectors, experimental elementary particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb), and pentaquarks.[1] [2]
Skwarnicki obtained a M.Sc. in Physics from Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland in 1982. He joined the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków to earn a PhD in 1986.
Skwarnicki began his academic career at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany and moved to the US in 1988.[3] In 1989, he joined the Department of Physics at Syracuse University as an assistant professor. He joined faculty at Southern Methodist University in 1992 while working at the Superconducting Super Collider in Dallas.[4] He moved back to Syracuse in 1995.[5]
Skwarnicki was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2001.[6]