Research Interests
Theoretical Physics. Application of Quantum Field Theory to Quantum Optics, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Present Position
Leipzig University, Germany
Research Associate, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dec. 2005-present
Previous Positions
University of South Carolina, USA
Research Associate, Kosciuszko-Foundation fellow, 2005
WSIZ, Poland
Research Associate, 2004-2005
Education
Hamburg University, Germany
Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, 2003, Advisor: Klaus Fredenhagen
Thesis: “Quantum Electrodynamics on background external fields”
Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
MSc. Theoretical Physics, 2000, Advisor: Andrzej Herdegen
Thesis: “Electron scattering in long-range electromagnetic field”
JW Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Vordiplom in Physics, 1997, Advisor: Walter Greiner
Awards and Fellowships
Erwin Schrödinger Institute
Short-term research fellowship, Vienna, Austria
March/April 2007
The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship
for research at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
2005
Graduate Fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
2001-2003
Three Stipends of the Polish Ministry of Science
in recognition of excellent results of study
1999,1997,1996
European Union's “TEMPUS” Stipend
for a year of exchange studies at the J.W.Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1996-1997
Selected recent publications
P. Marecki, Balanced homodyne detectors and Casimir energy densities, Journal of Physics A: Math. Theor. 41 164037 (2008)
arxiv:0711.1541, 
P. Marecki, Bounds on the energy densities of ground states on static spacetimes of compact objects, Phys.Rev. D73, 124009 (2006)
gr-qc/0507089,
P. Marecki, N. Szpak, Spontaneous emission of light from atoms: the model, Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 14, 428 (2005)
quant-ph/0407186,
P. Marecki, Application of quantum inequalities to quantum optics, Phys. Rev. A 66, 053801 (2002)
quant-ph/0203027,
For complete list including most recent preprints visit my research website.
Selected research talks
"E pur si muove" - on the problem(s) of rotation in Gereral Relativity
Talk at the Ulm University, June 2009
Remarks on quantum noise, negative energy densities and Hadamard regularization
Talk at the Hamburg University, April 2009
Time domain restrictions and Casimir cavity
expectation values of the quantum noise
Talk at the Albert-Einstein-Institute, Hannover, April 2008,
Field theory in Gödel-type spacetimes
Talk at the DPG Frührahrstagung, Freiburg, March 2008
On quantum effects in the vicinity of would-be horizons
Talk at the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting , FU Berlin, July 2006,
See also my research website for other presentations.
Short biography
