Prof. Zygmunt Lalak, Ph.D., is a physicist whose research interests focus on the physics of fundamental interactions and elementary particle cosmology. He has worked at research institutions abroad, including CERN (Switzerland), the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), the University of Pennsylvania (USA), as well as at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Bonn (Germany). He is the author of over 120 scientific papers published in international journals.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics at the Warsaw University of Technology. His academic career is associated with the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, where he earned his Ph.D. in physics in 1990 and his postdoctoral degree in 1999. He was awarded the title of professor of physics in 2008.

During the 2016–2020 term, he served as Vice Dean for Research and Development at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw and was the first chair of the Scientific Council for the Physical Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Since 2020, he has headed the “Initiative of Excellence – Research University” program.

For the 2020–2024 and 2024–2028 terms, Prof. Zygmunt Lalak holds the position of Vice Rector for Research.