He oversaw a multimillion dollar modernization of chemistry teaching laboratories and a construction of a new research wing. Piotr’s research group applies ultrafast laser spectroscopy to study how the energy of light can be harnessed to produce electric charges and drive chemical reactions. This interest has led to the design and construction of a unique ultrafast microscope which allows one to monitor processes that occur in one-tenth of a trillionth of a second. Recognizing this accomplishment, in 2012 the Rutgers Board of Governors named him the Donald H. Jacobs Chair in Applied Physics. He has been an active member of many scientific committees and international conferences. In addition to authoring over sixty peer-reviewed papers, he is the editor and co-author of Solar Energy Conversion: Dynamics of Interfacial Electron and Excitation Transfer (The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013), as well as co-editor and co-author of Electron Transfer in Chemistry (Wiley–VCH, 2001).