Zbigniew Galazka

Dr. Zbigniew Galazka is a crystal growth specialist at Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung (IKZ) in Berlin, Germany. He is experienced in growing a diversity of oxide single crystals for a variety of applications in both academic research and industrial developments. His current research focuses on the fast-emerging field of transparent semiconducting oxides to bring this class of materials to a higher level in terms of availability of bulk single crystals of emerging compounds. He was educated in Poland in micro- and optoelectronics at Warsaw University of Technology and made his PhD thesis at Institute of Electronic Materials Technology in Warsaw, where he worked for a decade on the Czochralski method. Next, he joined the crystal growth industry at Photonic Materials in the UK, and later at Saint-Gobain Crystals and Detectors in France. It has been over a decade since he had led the research on the bulk single crystals of transparent semiconducting oxides at IKZ.