Piotr Perlin graduated from the Department of Physics, University of Warsaw, in 1984. Since 1985, he has been employed as a research associate at the Center for High Pressure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD degree from the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1993. From 1995 to 1997, he was employed by the University of New Mexico, USA, as a research associate and senior research engineer, studying the physics of GaN-based optoelectronic devices. From 1997 to 1998, he worked at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been an assistant professor at the Center for High Pressure Research in Warsaw since 1999. In 2002, he received his habilitation from the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2010, he has rewarded the title of full professor of physics at the Institute of High Pressure Physics. He is also the CTO of TopGaN Ltd. His research topics mainly include nitride-based laser diodes, laser diode arrays, superluminescent diodes, and physics carrier recombination in nitride quantum structures.