Education:
1979 - M.Sc. in Chemistry, from the Jagiellonian University
1996 - Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the Technical University of Czestochowa

Career:
1979 - 1988: Czestochowa Branch of National Laboratory of Environment Chemistry, Researcher (analitycal chemistry)
1988 to present: the Technical University of Czestochowa, Departament of Metallurgy and materials Engineering; Division of Chemistry

Field of activity:

• Corrosion behaviour and corrosion protection of hard magnetic materials and permanent magnets based on compounds of rare earth and 3d- metals Sm-Co and Nd-Fe-B types
• Investigation of corrosion behaviour of nanocrystalline magnetic materials NdFeB and SmFeN

Main projects:

• Investigation of mechanism of corrosion of hard magnetic materials of NdFeB type
• Corrosion protection of high energy magnetic materials, NdFeB and SmFeN, by modification of processing parameters
• Modification of surface properties of metallic materials for effective corrosion protection
• Influence of production technology on corrosion behavior of nano-crystalline magnetic materials of RE-M type

Main publications:

1. Bala H., Szymura S., Rabinovich Yu.M., Sergeev V.V., Pawlowska G., Pokrowskii D.V "Studies of sintered permanent magnets Re?Fe?M?Co?B" Revue Phys. Appl. 25, (1990), 1205?1211
2. Bala H., Pawlowska G., Szymura S., Sergeev V.V., Rabinovich Yu.M. "Corrosion charakteristics of Nd?Fe?B sintered magnets containing various alloying elements" J.Magn.Magn.Mater., 87,1990, 255?259
3. Szymura S., Bala H., Rabinovich Yu.M., Sergeev V.V., Pawlowska G. "Structure, magnetic properties and corrosion behaviour of sintered Nd16Fe76-xCrxB8 magnets" J.Magn.Magn.Mater. 94, (1991), 113?118
4. Szymura S., Bala H., Rabinovich Yu.M., Sergeev V.V., Pawlowska G., Pokrowskii D.V. "The dependence of coercivity and corrosion resistance on grain size in Nd?Fe?B type sintered permanent magnets" J.Phys.Condens.Matter., 3, (1991), 5893?5901
5. Szymura S., Bala H., Pawlowska G., Rabinovich Yu.M., Sergeev V.V., Pokrovski D.V. "Modification of the magnetic properties and corrosion resistance of Nd?Fe?B permanent magnets with addition of cobalt" J.Less?Com. Met.,175, (1991), 195?198
6. Bala H., Szymura S., Sergeev V.V., Pokrowski D.V., Pawlowska G., Potapova L.V. "Properties of terbium?dopped (Nd,Dy)?(Fe,Co)?B sintered magnets" J.Magn.Magn.Mater., 103, (1992), 58?64
7. Bala H., Szymura S., Pawlowska G., Rabinovich Yu.M. "Effect of impurities on the corrosion behaviour of neodymium" J.App.Electrochem., 23, (1993), 1017-1024
8. Bala H., Pawlowska G., Szymura S. Rabinovich Yu.M. "The Electrochemical corrosion characterisation of intermetallic phases occuring in Nd-Fe-B type magnets" Brit. Corros. Journal, 33, (1998), 37-41