The history of magnetic research in Białystok dates back to the second half of the 1970s when Prof. A. Maziewski, in collaboration with a group of students and with the support of the then head of the Department of Physics at the University of Warsaw, Dr. Hab. Jan S. Brzosko, initiated the activities of the Magnetism Laboratory. In 1993, the Magnetism Laboratory was transformed into the Department of Magnetism Physics. During this period, the interests of the young team focused on the study of static and dynamic magnetic properties of thin films as well as the interaction of microwaves with these layers. Various magnetooptical methods were developed in the research, and resonance methods (FMR) were also utilized. The development of the team was possible thanks to significant support from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where, among other things, three people completed scientific internships, six people obtained doctoral degrees, three people obtained habilitation degrees, and one person obtained the title of professor. Particularly supportive were Prof. Henryk Szymczak and Prof. Ritta Szymczak from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, who supervised four doctoral theses prepared by young scientists from the Białystok magnetism team.

Since the early 1990s, research on the magnetic ordering of ultrathin metallic magnetic layers has been conducted at the Department of Magnetism Physics, in collaboration with the team of Prof. J. Ferre from Orsay (Paris, France).

Acceleration in the development of magnetic research on nanostructures occurred in the years 2004-2009, during which the Department of Magnetism Physics coordinated the implementation of the project. NANOMAG-LAB “Combined study of nanostructured magnetic materials”.