Prof. Rafał Babilas, PhD, DSc
Professor of the University
Department of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials,18a Konarskiego Street, Room 282/5
+(48) 32 237 18 97
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0000-0001-7706-8933 
Scientific field
Engineering and technical sciences
Scientific discipline
Materials Engineering
Priority Research Areas of the Silesian University of Technology
POB3 – Materials of the future
Scientific activities:
- PhD degree in technical sciences in the field of materials engineering in 2010.
- Habilitation degree in technical sciences in the field of materials engineering in 2016.
Research interests
- engineering of metallic materials
- amorphous, nanocrystalline and quasicrystalline materials
- conventional and bulk metallic glasses based on light and ferromagnetic metals
- structure modeling and Reverse Monte Carlo simulations
- research on the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials and nanostructured materials
- tests of thermal, magnetic, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance’
Scientific career
- Deputy Head of the Department of Engineering and Biomedical Materials, from 1.10.2019
- Head of the Department of Nanocrystalline and Functional Materials and Sustainable Ecological Technologies at the Institute of Engineering and Biomedical Materials at the Faculty of Mechanical Technology of the Silesian University of Technology, 1.09.2017 – 30.09.2019.
- Editor of a special issue in the Materials MDPI magazine – “Structure and Properties of Crystalline and Amorphous Alloys”
- Topic Editor in the Materials MDPI journal – Topic Editor
- Editor of a special issue in the Clean Technologies MDPI journal – “Cleaner Production Technologies 2021”
- Dean’s Representative for Project Management at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology from 1.01.2017.
- Representative of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology on the Council of the National Consortium of scientific units interested in using the European Synchrotron Radiation Center in Grenoble.
- Member of the Materials Engineering Discipline Council, term: 1.09.2020 – 30.08.2024, 1.09.2024 – 30.08.2028.
Research projects
- Thermodynamic approach in the design of amorphous, nanocrystalline and quasicrystalline aluminum-based alloys with increased strength and corrosion resistance for special applications, 2018/29/B/ST8/02264, 2019 – 2023, OPUS, National Science Center, principal investigator
- The use of nanomaterials in environmental protection in the processes of decolorization and degradation of chemical dyes – presentation of research results at prestigious international scientific conferences, MNiSW/2019/32/DIR/NN3, 2018 – 2019 as part of the “Best of the Best 3.0” program under Measure 3.3 POWER, principal investigator
- Modeling of the amorphous and nanocrystalline structure of bulk metallic glasses to justify their functional properties, 2011/03/D/ST8/04138, 2012 – 2016, SONATA, National Science Center, principal investigator
- Improving the properties of high-entropy alloys by designing the chemical composition, modeling the microstructure and producing cellular structures using additive technologies, 2022/47/B/ST8/02465, 2023 – 2026, OPUS, National Science Center, principal investigator
- The influence of the morphology of magnetite nanoparticles on the process of their isothermal growth, electrical properties and photocatalytic activity, 0220/DIA/2018/47, 2018 – 2022, Diamond Grant, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, scientific supervisor of the principal investigator
Membership of scientific associations
- Member of the Nanomaterials Team of the Metal Materials Section of the Committee for Materials Science and Metallurgy of the Polish Academy of Sciences 2020-2024
- Member of the Nanomaterials Team of the Materials Science Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2016-2020
- Member of the Polish Society of Materials Science
Membership of scientific associations
- PhD Eng. Katarzyna Młynarek-Żak: “Design of the chemical composition of aluminum alloys with amorphous, nanocrystalline and quasicrystalline structures based on thermodynamic calculations”, defense date: 10.07.2023.
- PhD Eng. Adrian Radoń: “Shaping the physicochemical properties of magnetite nanoparticles using selected methods of modifying their structure, shape and surface”, defense date: 17.10.2023.
- PhD Eng. Wojciech Łoński: “Structure and properties of high-entropy alloys AlCoCrxFeNiSiy and AlCoFeNi(Ti,Si) produced by rapid cooling methods”, defense date: 7.11.2024
- PhD Eng. Dawid Szyba: “Resorbable Ca-Mg-Zn alloys with the addition of ytterbium, boron and gold for biomedical applications”, defense date: 19.12.2024
