Dr Wladek Forysiak
TRANSNET Co-Investigator
Dr Wladek Forysiak studied Physics at Imperial College, London and then joined the Physics department at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and received a PhD for studies on Nonlinear Dynamics of Three-Level Lasers in 1989.
Following post-doctoral appointments at Heriot-Watt University, Aston University and The University of Arizona, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at Aston University in 1996 as a lecturer and was promoted to reader in 2000. During that period he taught several UG and MSc-level courses in electronic engineering and telecommunications, and performed research on high-speed optical fibre transmission systems via numerical simulations, with emphasis on optical solitons, dispersion management, and WDM.
In 2000, he moved to Marconi Solstis as Development Director alongside five colleagues from Aston to develop an ultra-long-haul DWDM transmission system, named uPLx160. From 2003-2010 he worked for Marconi plc, and subsequently Ericsson Ltd, as Photonics Modelling Manager leading an international team responsible for propagation modelling, simulation tools, and link configuration design rules. In 2010, Wladek was appointed Director, technology and systems at Oclaro Technology Ltd, where he worked for the Optical Network Systems Business Unit, with interests in optical communication systems, high-bit-rate modules, advanced amplification, and related technologies.
In 2012 he was appointed Royal Society Industry Fellow at AIPT to work on a research project entitled “Tackling Information Capacity limits to Tbit/s fibre Optic Communication systems” (TICTOC) and in July 2014 appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Applied Physics at Aston. He has been a TRANSNET Co-Investigator, based at our Aston University site since 2018.
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