D.Sc., Ph.D. Marek Pękała is an experimental physicist in the field of solid-state physics. He received his M.Sc. in 1972 and Ph.D. in 1981 at University of Warsaw. In 2001, he received D.Sc./Habilitation at Warsaw University of Technology. In 1972, he joined Warsaw University, where he focused on experimental magnetics and transport studies of solids. ORCID 0000-0003-2256-5160