Pavel Baroch is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics- Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB and the Head of the Department of Physics and NTIS - European Centre of Excellence. Since 2014, he was the Vice-Dean for Strategy and Public Affairs, then the Vice-Dean for International Cooperation and External Relations of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB.

He obtained his PhD in 2004 and attended the EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Japan as Postdoctoral fellow before joining  Department of Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, UWB as Assistant Professor in 2006.

He is Specialized in plasma technologies, reactive magnetron deposition of thin films, high power pulsed magnetron sputtering and design of plasma sources and vacuum systems.

He is also member of the Scientific committee of Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology (SPPT) and of the Program committee of the International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE).