Dr. Szymon Gladysz

• Running a research group (currently 10 members and 3 laboratories) • Obtaining external funding (USD 4 million in total, as of 2023) • Supervising post-docs and students • Maintaining intl. collaborations and industrial partnerships • Serving as conference chair, committee member, invited speaker and topical editor

Lecturer (“Lehrbeauftragter”) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, course Adaptive Optics supervisor of ca. 20 M.Sc. theses

• Modelling of light propagation along horizontal paths and strong turbulence • Blind image restoration for horizontal-path imaging and for space situational awareness • Combining the model of partially-developed speckle and the theory of adaptive optics

• Recovery of signals hidden in speckle clutter • Deconvolution after imaging through turbulence • Speckle statistics in non-stationary turbulence

• Theoretical aspects of light propagation through atmospheric turbulence

• Simulation of the adaptive optics systems for the European Extremely Large Telescope • Development of image processing algorithms for weak signal detection

Postdoctoral Researcher in the Applied Optics Group, National University of Ireland, Galway • Matched-filter approach to the problem of detection and photometry of weak light sources

Visiting Scholar, Center for Adaptive Optics, Santa Cruz, California • Modelling and evaluation of the adaptive optics system at the Lick Observatory • Carrying out observations with the 3-m Shane telescope