At the end of 2021, 285 scientists, engineering and technical employees, and 107 employees in administrative and technical roles worked in the Institute's Scientific Departments and Laboratories. Of the scientific and technical employees, 83% declared physics as their field of science. For the rest, the fields declared together with physics include chemistry and biology. materials engineering, engineering and technical sciences and biomedical engineering. The scientific staff of the Institute includes, among others (data as at the end of 2021), three members of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 45 titular professors, 38 professors of the Institute and 51 assistant professors. Among scientists and technical workers, foreigners account for 12%.
The Institute doctoral students come from Poland and several countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (currently 62% of doctoral students are foreigners). In 2021, the employees of the Institute carried out a total of 86 research projects. Over 60% are projects financed by grant programs of the National Science Centre. The others are projects financed by the National Center for Research and Development, the Polish Science Foundation, the EU Commission, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the NAWA agency, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the NATO SPS Program and from other domestic and foreign sources. In 2021, the employees of the Institute published 278 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, over 95% of them articles in peer-reviewed international scientific journals in English. During this period, the Institute was granted 12 patents and protection rights, and the employees of the Institute filed 10 further patent applications. The employees of the institute participate in about 100 international scientific collaborations, including about 30 formal consortia. The Institute is also the publisher of the English-language open access scientific journal in the field of physics Acta Physica Polonica A, in which 205 scientific articles have been published.