Dr. Czak’s research interests are in condensed matter and non-equilibrium systems. Specific research interests include: out-of-equilibrium dynamical behavior of complex systems, stochastic population dynamics, disordered and chaotic systems, applications of statistical physics to biological problems and control and manipulation of spatiotemporal patterns. These systems are explored using the tools of statistical physics.

Dr. Czak’s current student research projects involve using the methods of statistical physics with concepts of control theory and nonlinear dynamics to study spatiotemporal patterns in chaos exhibiting systems.

• PhD in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics, 2022, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• MS in Atomic Optics, 2015, Delaware State University, Dover, DE
• MS in Semiconductor Physics, 2013, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
• BS in Condensed Matter Physics, 2009, Penn State, State College, PA

• J. Czak and M. Pleimling, Spatiotemporal patterns emerging from a spatially localized time delayed feedback scheme, Phys. Rev. E 104, 064213, pp. 1 9 (2021).
• D. N. Talwar, B. A. Lenze, J. E. Czak, and A. Bensaoula, Phonon modes and Raman intensity profiles in zinc blende BN/GaN superlattices, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 47, 015305 (2013).