Email: michatom@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Phone: (718) 951 5357

Professor of Physics, Brooklyn College
Professor of Physics and Chemistry in the School for Graduate Studies of the City University of New York.
Director - Environmental Studies Program - Brooklyn College.
Divisional Editor-Journal of the Electrochemical Society (1981 - 1991);
Chairman - the Energy and Technology Division, the Electrochemical Society (1991 - 1993).
Member of the International Organizing Committee of the conferences on Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (1989 - 1992).
Director - The Electrochemistry Institute - Brooklyn College.
Ph.D. -Physical Chemistry-Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel-1969;
M.Sc. -Physical Chemistry-Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel-1963.

Active Research:

Management of Global Energy Transition:

• India - Energy Transition in the Sunderban with Prof. Vinit Parmar, Dept. of Film, Brooklyn College of CUNY).

• Energy Choices - a Political Game without Politics (with Prof. Lori Scarlatos,Dept. of Technology and Society, Stony Brook University) : Extend a global energy simulation to create a web-based game in which students take on the roles of world leaders making science-based decisions. Graduate student - Richard Cohen - Brooklyn College.

Funded Educational Activities:

• Brooklyn Outreach for Science Careers (BOSC) (with Seraphina Tisch, Peter Lesser, Louise Hainline, Eleanor Miele and Wayne Powell)

• Brooklyn College GK-12 – CITY AS LAB (with Wayne Powell, Louise Hainline and Simon Parsons)

Teaching and Curriculum Development: Environmental Studies Program

                                                    Computer Simulation in Physics

                                                     Energy Use and Climate Change - Core 30.02

Cosmology - Core 30.01

Selected Publications:

• M. Tomkiewicz ; "Surface Characterization of Nanostructured Systems" in Semiconductor Nanoclusters-Physical, Chemical and Catalytic Aspects; P.V. Kamat and D. Meisel edts, Elsevier (1997).
• M. Tomkiewicz and S. Kelly; "Morphology Dependent Photocatalysis with Nanoparticle Aggregates"; in Nanoparticles in Solids and Solutions. Preparation, Characterization and Application., VCH (1998)
• Sean Kelly, Fred H. Pollak and Micha Tomkiewicz; "Raman Spectroscopy as a Morphological Probe for TiO₂ Aerogels", J. Phys. Chem.101, 2730 (1997)
• M. Tomkiewicz; "Environmental Aspects of Electrodeposition" in Modern Electroplating; M. Schlesinger ed., John Wiley (2000).
• Micha Tomkiewicz; "Scaling Properties in Photocatalysis" in Catalysis Today, 58,115 (2000).
• M. Ciszkowska and M. Tomkiewicz; “Ionic and Electronic Transport in Gels and Aerogels”; Current Topics in Electrochemistry, 8, 1 (2001).
• N. Parker, Y. Andreopoulos, M. Tomkiewicz, A. Kawaguchi, S. Jones, and D. Denisov, Hybrid-Electric Transit Buses: Challenges and Implications for Full Implementation, 8th Pan-American Conference of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Albany, New York, September 2004.
• M. Tomkiewicz; “Computer Simulation of Energy Choices”, Proc. Of the International Conference on Energy, Environment and Disasters (INCEED 2005).  
• M. Tomkiewicz; “  Global Warming – Science, Money,and Self Preservation”, Compte Rendus Chimie, 9, 172 ( 2006).
• G. DeLuca and M. Tomkiewicz; "Personalizing the Anti-Plagiarism Campaign", Plagiary, 9, 1 (2007).
• Micha Tomkiewicz; "On the Feasibility of a Timely Transition to a More Sustainable Energy Future", Sustainability, 2, 204 (2010).