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Has won recognition for his pioneering research into ferromagnetic semiconductors and the development of methods for magnetic ordering and quantum location of carriers. This paved the way for the creation of a new area of science - semiconductor spintronics. Winner of the Humboldt Research Award, the Agilent Europhysics Prize, and the Foundation for Polish Science Prize for the development of the theory of diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors, and for the demonstration of new methods for controlling magnetization. Director of numerous research projects, including the ERC Advanced Grant. Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU), Warsaw Science Society (TNW), and Academia Europaea. Fellow of the Institute of Physics, UK, the American Physical Society, and the Japanese Society of Applied Physics.

Together with his colleagues, he demonstrated the action of a new type of a spin transistor whose operation is based on the use of the internal momentum (spin) of electrons, and not their electrical charge as is the case in transistors which are currently in use. Prof. Wojtowicz greatly contributed to the study of diluted magnetic semiconductors and semiconductor nanowires. Winner of the Minister of Science Award (2013) for outstanding research achievements, “for the fundamental contribution into the development of molecular beam epitaxy and research into unique quantum structures with programmable spin properties.” He was the leader of the prestigious Maestro Project at the National Science Centre. A Fulbright Alumnus.