Department of Magnetism (Geoelectromagnetism)
Institute of Geophysics PAS
ul. Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa
tel.: +48 22 6915 904
e-mail: kamiz@igf.edu.pl

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Education:

  • 1998-2003 – Master diploma with distinction, Physics Faculty, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 2003-2007 – Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
  • 2007 – Ph.D. in physical sciences, Physics Faculty, University of Warsaw, Poland
  • 2013 – Habilitation degree and diploma with distinction in geophysics, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), Poland

Employment history:

  • 01.2008-05.2011 – Post-doc position, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  • 06.2011-01.2013 – Adjunct position, Department of Mechanics and Physics of Fluids, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • 10.2012-01.2013 – Geophysicist position, Department of Plasma Physics, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • 02.2013-02.2014 – Adjunct position, Department of Magnetism, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • From 03.2014 – Associate Professor position, Department of Magnetism, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Main research field:

  • Theoretical magnetohydrodynamics and hydrodynamics with applications to the Earth’s core dynamics and dynamics of stellar interiors and accretion discs. Renormalization theory in fluid dynamics.

Other scientific activities:

  • Team member for numerical modeling of industrial filters of urea, with the use of numerical package FLUENT (2005-2007). The aim was to obtain optimal configuration for most efficient separation of small oil droplets from urea.
  • Team member for modeling the dynamics of forest pests, by the use of statistical and numerical methods (2006-2007). The research was funded by the Polish Forestry Commission
  • Recent collaboration with the Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, Physics Faculty, University of Warsaw on dynamics of non-equilibrium growth of finger-like structures in dissolving fractures.

Selected grants and projects:

  • 04.2018 – 04.2022: Buoyancy driven magnetic dynamo (Polish title: Dynamo magnetyczne indukowane przez siły wyporu), project of the Polish National Science Centre NCN 2017/26/E/ST3/00554, (name of the call: SONATA BIS),Principal inestigator, Budget: 782 600 PLN, Key words: magnetic dynamo, magnetic buoyancy, Thermal and Compositional Convection, theoretical fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, Earth’s core, Solar Tachocline, MAC waves, Solar activity, Geomagnetic field, planetary and stellar magnetic fields
  • 01.2024-01.2028: Geodynamo from nonequilibrium turbulent wave field (Polish title: Ziemskie dynamo magnetyczne generowane przez nierównowagowe oddziaływania fal w turbulentnym przepływie), project of the Polish National, Science Centre NCN 2023/49/B/ST10/03412, (name of the call: OPUS), Principal inestigator, Budget: 1 244 000 PLN, Key words: Geomagnetism, hydromagnetic dynamo, magnetohydrodynamics, non-equilibrium turbulence, geomagnetic reversals.

Books:

  • K.A. Mizerski, 2021, Foundations of Convection with Density Stratification, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-63054-6, ISBN: 978-3-030-63053-9
  • K.A. Mizerski, 2023, Non-equilibrium hydromagnetic dynamos, IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK, DOI: 10.1088/978-0-7503-6362-4, ISBN: 978-0-7503-6358-7

Selected publications:

  • K.A. Mizerski, 2025, Tuning of the current drive in tokamaks with phase-shifted beating waves, AIP Advances, 15, 115107, DOI: 10.1063/5.0293112
  • K.A. Mizerski, 2025, Geomagnetic reversals and excursions as an outcome of non‐equilibrium wave‐turbulence and beating MAC waves in the core, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030679, DOI: 10.1029/2024JB030679
  • M.J. Grądzki, D.W. Hughes & K.A. Mizerski, 2023, Joint action and competition between centrifugal, magnetorotational, and magnetic buoyancy instabilities, Astroph. J. Suppl. Ser. 267(48):(24pp), DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acce2f
  • K.A. Mizerski, N. Yokoi & A. Brandenburg, 2023,  Cross-helicity effect on α-type dynamo in non-equilibrium turbulence, J. Plasma Physics 89(4):905890412, DOI: 10.1017/S0022377823000545
  • K.A. Mizerski, 2023, Helical correction to turbulent magnetic diffusivity, Phys. Rev. E 107(5):055205, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.055205
  • C.A. Jones, K.A. Mizerski & M. Kessar, 2022, Fully developed anelastic convection with no-slip boundaries, J. Fluid Mech. 930, A13, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.905
  • K.A. Mizerski, 2021, Renormalization group analysis of the magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and dynamo, J. Fluid Mech. 926:A13, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.707
  • K.A. Mizerski, 2020, Renormalization group analysis of the turbulent hydromagnetic dynamo: the effect of nonstationarity, Astroph. J. Suppl. Ser. 251(2):21, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abb8dc
  • M. Kessar, D.W. Hughes, E. Kersale, K.A. Mizerski & S.M. Tobias, 2019, Scale selection in the stratified convection of the solar photosphere, Astroph. J. 874:103 (15 pp), DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab07bf
  • H.K. Moffatt & K.A. Mizerski, 2018, Pinch dynamics in a low-beta plasma, Fluid Dyn. Res. 50(1), 011401, DOI: 10.1088/1873-7005/aa6edd
  • K.A. Mizerski, C.R. Davies & D.W. Hughes, 2013, Short-wavelength magnetic buoyancy instability. Astrophys. J. Suppl. Series., 205, 16, DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/205/2/16
  • K.A. Mizerski & S. M. Tobias, 2013, Large-scale convective dynamos in a stratified rotating plane layer, Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dyn. 107, 218-243, DOI: 10.1080/03091929.2012.672567
  • K.A. Mizerski & W. Lyra, 2012, On the connection between the magneto-elliptic and magneto rotational instabilities. J. Fluid Mech., 698, 358-373, DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.95