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PROF. WOJCIECH GROCHALA

CURRICULUM VITAE

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Personal Data

First, middle and second name: Wojciech Rafal Grochala

Date of birth: Dec.9, 1972

Place of birth: Warsaw, POLAND

Citizenship and nationality: Polish

 

Employment:

•             Jul 1, 2016 – present: Full (Ordinary) Professor at the Center for New Technologies (CENT), University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)

•             Jan 1, 2012 – Jun 30, 2016: Full (Extraordinary) Professor at the Center for New Technologies (CENT), University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)

•             Jul 1, 2011 – Dec 31, 2011: Full (Extraordinary) Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM), University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)

•             Oct 4, 2005 – Jun 30, 2011: Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM), University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)

•             Oct 4, 2005 – present: Head of the Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials, University of Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland)

•             2005 – Dec 2013: Adjunct Associate at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Laboratory of Intermolecular Interactions, Warsaw (Poland)

•             2005 – short time Research Associate at Geophysical Lab of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

•             2002 – 2005: Senior Research Associate at the  Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw

•             Dec 2000 – Dec 2001: Postdoctoral Associate with  Prof. Peter P. Edwards, at the School of Chemistry, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom)

•             Jan 1999 – Sep 2000: Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Roald Hoffmann (Nobel Prize in chemistry 1981), at the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca (USA)

 

Scientific Career Track:

•             Aug 14, 2014: Titular Professor distinction granted by the President of Poland

•             Oct 24, 2005 – Habilitation (D.Sc.) approved by the Central Commission on Academic Degrees

•             Apr 6, 2005 - Habilitation (D.Sc.) colloquium

•             2004 – Habilitation (D.Sc.) Thesis submitted „Design of new families of superconducting materials based on the studies of vibronic coupling for simple molecules”

•             1998, Nov 18 – Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, thesis "Analysis of the components of the enhancement factors in the SERS and SERRS spectra"; supervisor: Prof. Jolanta Bukowska ; graduation diploma cum laude

 

Higher Education:

•             1995 – 1998 postgraduate studies with Prof. Jolanta Bukowska at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Laboratory of Intermolecular Interactions

•             1995 – M.Sc. in chemistry from the Dept. of Chemistry, the University of Warsaw; thesis "Electrooxidation of o-methoxyaniline as studied by SERS and SERRS spectroscopy on Ag and Au electrodes"; supervisor: Prof. J. Bukowska; graduation diploma cum laude

•             1991 – 1995 graduate studies at the Dept. of Chemistry, the University of Warsaw

 

Teaching experience:

•             lectures on sciences for students of humanities @ Artes Liberales faculty

•             courses and monographic lectures on materials science for undergraduate and graduate students

•             computational exercises and laboratories on molecular spectroscopy, physical, analytical and inorganic chemistry for chemists, physicists and biologists (I, II, and III year)

 

Awards and Stipends:

•             2023 – Distinction from the University of Warsaw for increasing of the prestige of the University and contributing to its development

•             2017 – Distinction from the University of Warsaw for increasing of the prestige of the University and contributing to its development

•             2016 – Silver medal of the 200th Anniversary of the University of Warsaw

•             2016 – Distinction from the University of Warsaw for increasing of the prestige of the University and contributing to its development

•             2015 – Distinction from the University of Warsaw for increasing of the prestige of the University and contributing to its development

•             2014 – Prize of the Rector of The University of Warsaw (2nd degree) for scientific achievements

•             2013 – Świętosławski Prize 2nd degree, from Polish Chem. Soc. (Warsaw Section)

•             2010 – named ‘Polish discoverer of the year in the field of chemistry’ by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education

•             2010, 2009, 2008 – Prize of the Rector of The University of Warsaw for scientific achievements

•             2006 – Stipend of The Polityka Foundation

•             2005 – Scientific stipend of The Rector of The University of Warsaw

•             2004 – Stipend of the The Foundation for Polish Science

•             2003 – Chosen the best young Polish researcher of the Why magazine

•             2003 – Stipend of the The Foundation for Polish Science

•             2002 – Special stipend of The Rector of The University of Warsaw

•             2001 – The Crescendum est Polonia Foundation Fellowship

•             2000/2001 – The Royal Society Postdoctoral and Research Fellowships

•             1999/2000 – The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship

•             1998 – Departmental Award for the summa cum laude Ph. D. Thesis

•             1995 – Departmental Award for the summa cum laude Master’s degree work

•             1988 – 1st place in Competition in Chemistry organized by the Warsaw University of Technology

•             1987 – Laureate of XXXV Polish Olympic Competition in Chemistry

 

Habilitations (DSc) from my group:

•             2024 – Dr hab. Przemysław Malinowski (inorganic chemistry)

•             2021 – Dr hab. Tomasz Jaroń (inorganic chemistry)

•             2019 – Dr hab. Paweł Szarek (theoretical chemistry)

•             2019 – Dr hab. Piotr Jerzy Leszczyński (organic chemistry)

•             2019 – Dr hab. Dominik Kurzydłowski (high pressure chemistry)

•             2014 – Dr hab. Mariana Derzsi (solid state physics)

 

Promoted PhDs:

XV. 2024 – Dr Daniel Jezierski (pending)

XIV. 2024 – Dr Mateusz Domański

XIII. 2023 – Dr Kacper Koteras

XII. 2021 – Dr Wojciech Wegner (cum laude) [co-tutor Jacek Majewski]

XI. 2021 – Dr Rafał Owarzany [auxiliary tutor Karol J. Fijałkowski]

X. 2020 – Dr Agnieszka Starobrat [co-tutor Jacek Majewski]

IX. 2019 – Dr Jakub Gawraczyński (cum laude)

VIII. 2018 – Dr Adam Grzelak

VII. 2016 – Dr Piotr Połczyński (cum laude) [co-tutor Rafał Jurczakowski]

VI. 2015 – Dr Tomasz Michałowski

V. 2013 – Dr Dominik K. Kurzydłowski

IV. 2013 – Dr Przemysław J. Malinowski (cum laude)

III. 2013 – Dr Tomasz Jaroń (cum laude)

II. 2012 – Dr Andrew J. Churchard

I. 2012 – Dr Karol J. Fijałkowski (cum laude)

 

Scientometrics:

•             218 papers (211 printed, 2 in press & 5 submitted)

•             ~6,285 citations, ~4,920 without self-citations (scopus & WOS combined)

•             total IF of ~1160

•             average IF per paper: ~5.5

•             H=34

•             the most cited paper (CHEM REV 104(3): 1283-1315 2004) has +1500 cit. (scopus & WOS combined) and it is on 21^st place (historically up to 9^th) among the TOP CITED chemistry papers from Poland

•             featured in TOP2% list from Stanford Univ. ranking www

•             ORCID 0000-0001-7317-5547

 

Publications:

+200 papers, including 185 original papers and 16 reviews/features/history papers in international journals, 8 book chapters, 1 invited book review, 1 invited www review, 4 invited comments, 1 conference viewpoint; and 2 sci-pop accounts. Click here for the list of recent representative papers.

•             13 HOT or VIP papers

•             36 COVER papers

 

Patents: 

•             4 international patents: PCT/GB2004/001579 (WO 2004/096700 A1), PCT/IB2014/001884 (WO/2015/040480 A1), PCT/IB2016/001280 (WO/2017/042624), PCT/IB2022/059516 (WO/2023/057928)

•             5 Polish patents: P.405335 (2013), P.405397 (2013), P.413922 (2015), P.418465 (2016), P.416026 (2016)

•             3 Polish patent applications: P.418629 (2016), P.418630 (2016), P.439148 (2021)

 

Conferences and Symposia – 255 conference contributions incl. 95 invited lectures: 

•             9-11 IX 2024 – Boris Žemva Memorial Symposium (Ljubljana, Slovenia), invited talk

•             2-6 IX 2024 – CMD31 (Braga, Portugal), poster coauthor

•             15-19 VII 2024 – ECMM (Cracow, Poland), poster coauthor

•             30 VI-5 VII 2024 – 22^nd International Conference on Magnetism (Bolonia, Italy), poster coauthor

•             4-8 III 2024 – APS Mar Meeting 2024 (Minneapolis, USA), talk coauthor

•             30 I 2024 – CeNT UW Symposium (Warsaw, Poland), talk

•             29-30 XI 2023 – ICM Conference (Warsaw, Poland), invited talk

•             18-22 IX 2023 – 65^th PTChem Meeting (Torun, Poland), talk coauthor

•             17-23 IX Magnetic Resonance of Correlated Electron Materials (Dresden, Germany), poster coauthor

•             3-8 IX 2023 – EPS CMD30 (Milan, Italy), talk coauthor

•             27-30 VIII 2023 – NANOMAT23 (Warsaw, Poland), invited talk

•             23-28 VII 2023 – 23^rd ISFC-ISoFT (Quebec City, Canada), invited talk and two talks’ coauthor (2021 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             5-9 VII 2023 – 7^th Fluorine Days (Poznan, Poland), plenary talk (2020 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             7-8 VI 2023 – ICANTA-2023 (Kenitra, Morocco), invited talk

•             29-31 III 2023 – 5^th FunMat (Krakow, Poland), invited talk

•             8-13 I 2023 – Winter Fluorine Conference ACS (Clearwater Bay, FL, USA), invited talk (preregistered talk)

•             29 VIII-2 IX 2022 – 15^th International Conference on Muon Spin Rotation, Relaxation and Resonance (Parma, ITALY), poster coauthor

•             14-19 VIII 2022 – 20^th ISFC (Berlin, Germany), keynote talk and four talks coauthor

•             26-29 VII 2022 – International workshop “Challenges in Designing Room Temperature Superconductors” (l'Aquila, Italy), invited talk

•             24-29 VII 2022 – International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), talk coauthor

•             17-22 VII 2022 – 13^th M2S: Mechanisms of Superconductivity & High-Temperature Superconductivity, UBC (Vancouver, Canada), talk coauthor

•             3-8 VII 2022 – International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds, ISNA19 (Warsaw, Poland), invited contributed talk (2021 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             31 V–3 VI Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure (ES22) (Columbia University NY, U.S., talk coauthor, virtual)

•             16-21 I 2022 – Winter Fluorine Conference ACS (St. Petersburgh, FL, USA), plenary talk

•             15-20 XII 2021 – Pacifichem 2021 (Waikiki, HI, USA), invited talk (2020 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             6-8 XII 2021 – 4^th ICCCT 2021 (Caparica, Portugal), keynote talk & 6 contributions coauthor

•             27 IX-2 X 2021 – SCES 2021 (Brazil, online), 1 talk coauthor (2020 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             20-23 IX 2021 – EMRS Fall Meeting 2021 (Warsaw, Poland), 3 contributions coauthor (online 2020 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             26-30 VII 2021 – CSEC 2021 (IOP, UK), contribution coauthor (online meeting)

•             12-13 IV 2021 – Magnetism 2021 (IOP, UK), two posters coauthor (online meeting)

•             15-19 III 2021 – APS March Meeting (Denver, USA), invited talk (2020 meeting postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             10-20 XI 2020 – 2^nd International Online Conference on Crystals, two contributions coauthor

•             29-30 IX 2020 – GDCh Meeting (Berlin, Germany), five posters coauthor

•             21-24 IX 2020 – 18^th CESTC (Balatonszarszo, Hungary), two contributions coauthor (meeting cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             6-11 IX 2020 – 58^th EHPRG (Canary Islands, Spain), invited talk, and four contributions coauthor (online meeting)

•             4-5 VII 2020 – CMMSE2020 (Rota, Spain), invited talk (meeting cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             30 VI – 1VII 2020 – 1^st Conference of Ochota Campus (Warsaw, Poland), plenary talk and six posters coauthor (online meeting)

•             23-25 III 2020 –SFE2020 (Warsaw, Poland), poster coauthor (meeting held online due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             4-7 II 2020 – 44^th Condensed Matter and Materials “Wagga” Meeting (Rotorua, New Zealand), invited talk

•             27-30 XI 2019 – IRSEC’19 (Agadir, Morocco), invited talk

•             25-27 XI 2019 – 4^th FUNMAT (Cracow, Poland), invited talk (cancelled)

•             12-15 XI 2019 – The 2^nd China Jiujiang International Conference of Silicone & Fluorine Industry Development (SIF 2019) (Jiujang, China), keynote talk (cancelled)

•             16-17 X 2019 – 3^rd Intnl Conf. on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Barcelona, Spain), invited talk

•             30 IX 2019 – Special Symposium celebrating 150^th anniversary of The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (Warsaw, Poland), talk

•             9-12 IX 2019 – 9^th CESTC (Burg Schlaining, Austria), 1 talk coauthor

•             2-5 IX 2019 – 62^nd PTChem Symposium celebrating 100^th anniversary of The Society (Warsaw, Poland), poster & 11 talks coauthor & 1 poster coauthor

•             25-31 VIII 2019 – 19^th ESFC (Warsaw, Poland), poster & 15 talks coauthor & 8 posters coauthor

•             4-9 VIII 2019 – AIRAPT27 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), talk

•             17-20 VII 2019 – Advanced Nano Materials ANM 2019 (Aveiro, Portugal), talk

•             23-30 VI 2019 – SUPERSTRIPES 2019 (Ischia, Italy), invited talk

•             25-28 V 2019 – Electrochemistry 2019 (Barcelona, Spain), talk

•             13-14 V 2019 – World Congress on Functional New Materials WCFNM 2019 (Valencia, Spain), talk

•             16-17 IV 2019 – International Conference on Advances in Applied Physics and Materials Science ICAAPMS 2019 (Lisbon, Portugal), 1 invited talk – BEWARE of PREDATORY conferences of WASET / IRC 

•             11-14 III 2018 – Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2019 (Warsaw, Poland), 1 invited talk and 1 talk coauthor

•             28 X-2 XI 2018 – 16^th International Symposium of Metal-Hydrogen Systems (Guanghzou, China), 4 talks and 1 poster coauthor

•             16-21 IX 2018 – 13^th International Symposium of Solid State Chemistry (Pardubice, Czech Rep.), 4 posters coauthor 

•             17-21 IX 2018 – 61^st Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society, PTCh 2018 (Cracow, Poland), lecture coauthor 

•             10-12 IX 2018 – 3rd International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, mESC-IS 2018 (Belgrade, Serbia), two lectures coauthor

•             2-7 IX 2018 – 56^rd EHPRG (Aveiro, Portugal), invited lecture & lecture

•             19-24 VIII 2018 – 12^th International Conference on Materials & Mechanisms of Superconductivity and High Temperature Superconductors, M²S-HTSC-XII 2018 (Beijing, China), lecture coauthor

•             30 VII-4 VIII 2018 – 43^rd International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, ICCC 2018 (Sendai, Japan), lecture coauthor

•             22-27 VII 2018 – 22^nd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (Oxford, UK), invited lecture

•             9-13 VII 2018 – International Workshop on Dual Nature of f-electrons (IWDN2018) (Wrocław, Poland), poster coauthor

•             24-28 VI 2018 – 8^th MDMM (Polanica Zdrój, Poland), invited lecture

•             10-14 VI 2018 – "Exotic Interactions in Quantum Correlated Materials" (UJ, Cracow, Poland), invited lecture

•             8 VI 2018 – ChemSession2018 (Warsaw, Poland), invited plenary lecture 

•             3-6 VI 2018 – Atoms, Molecules, and Materials in Extreme Environments (CAS Oslo, Norway), invited lecture

•             20-24 V 2018 – 6^th International Symposium on Organofluorine Compounds in Biomedical, Materials and Agriculture Sciences (Nanjing, China), invited lecture

•             16-18 V 2018 – 5th International Conference on Rare Earth Materials, REMAT’18 (Wrocław, Poland), lecture coauthor

•             17 V 2018 – XVI KRAB Symposium co-organized by KGHM (Wrocław, Poland), poster coauthor

•             2-6 IV 2018 – 2018 MRS Spring Meeting (Phoenix, USA), lecture coauthor

•             18-22 III 2018 – 255^th National ACS Meeting (New Orleans, USA), invited lecture & lecture 

•             12-13 III 2018 – 2^nd Symposium on Ab Initio Calculations (Cracow, Poland), invited lecture

•             8-10 XI 2017 – 3^rd FunMat 2017 (Cracow, Poland), invited keynote lecture & 1 speech coauthor

•             1-5 X 2017 – 232^nd ECS meeting (National Harbor, DC, USA), lecture coauthor 

•             17-21 IX 2017 – 60^th PTCh meeting (Wroclaw, Poland), 3 lectures & 1 poster coauthor 

•             3-8 IX 2017 – 55^th EHPRG (Poznan, Poland), invited lecture & 3 lectures coauthor

•             20-24 VIII 2017 – 254^th ACS National Meeting & Exposition (Washington DC, USA), lecture

•             4-10 VI 2017 – Superstripes 2017 (Ischia, Italy), lecture

•             19-21 IV 2017 – ICM User Session 2017 (Warsaw, Poland), plenary lecture

•             16-17 III 2017 – ICCT-2017, Kenitra, Marocco, invited lecture

•             8-9 XII 2016 – 3rd Polish Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry, Cracow, Poland, invited lecture

•             13-15 XI 2016 – MolMod-2016, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, invited lecture

•             4-9 IX 2016 – 54th EHPRG (Bayreuth, Germany), 2 posters coauthor

•             7-12 VIII 2016 – 18th ESFC (Kiev, Ucraine), invited lecture (particip. cancelled)

•             14-18 VII 2016 – 4th International Conference on Chemical Bonding (Kauai, HI, USA), invited lecture

•             5-8 VII 2016 NanoteXnology’16 (Saloniki, Greece), poster coauthor

•             4-8 VII 2016 – International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering CMMSE’16 (Rota, Spain), invited lecture

•             22-24 VI 2016 – iPolymorphs: Novel Routes to Inorganic Polymorphs (San Sebastian, Spain), keynote lecture

•             28 VI 2016 – TEDx conference: Taking it to the extremes (Warsaw, Poland), invited lecture

•             29 II 2016 – Symposium on ab initio computational methods (Cracow, Poland), lecture

•             14-18 II 2016 – 1st South African Flourine Symposium (SAFS2016) (Cape Town, South Africa), lecture

•             27-29 XI 2015 – NMD VI, Novel Experimental Methods of Physics, Chemistry and Engineering (Lublin, Poland), poster coauthor

•             18-20 XI 2015 – International Conference 2nd FUNMAT 2015 (Cracow, Poland), invited lecture and 3 posters’ coauthor

•             15-18 IX 2015 – Fall E-MRS Meeting (Warsaw, Poland), two invited lectures in Symposia A & T

•             30 VIII-4 IX 2015 – AIRAPT-25 & EHPRG-53 (Madrid, Spain), invited keynote lecture & 2 posters’co-author

•             23-28 VIII 2015 – 21st ISFC & ISoFT’15 (Como, Italy), invited keynote lecture & poster coauthor

•             14-16 IV 2015 – 6th Conference on Thermal Analysis – Evolved Gas Analysis Coupling Techniques (Selb, Germany), invited lecture

•             8-15 III 2015 – SMEC’15 (Fort Lauderdale, USA), invited lecture

•             7-8 I 2015 – Higgs Symposium’15 (Edinburgh, UK), invited lecture

•             5-10 X 2014 – WATOC 2014 (Santiago, Chile), invited lecture

•             7-10 IX 2014 – 2nd Polish Forum of Inorganic Chemistry (Wroclaw, Poland), 4 posters' co-author

•             31 VIII-5 IX 2014 – European Conference on Surface Science ECOSS30 (Antalya, Turkey), 3 posters' co-author

•             10-14 VIII 2014 – 248th ACS National Meeting (San Francisco, USA), invited speaker for special meeting in honour of Prof. G. Schrobilgen

•             5-12 VIII 2014 – Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (Montreal, Canada), invited speaker

•             3-8 VIII 2014 – Conductivity & Magnetism in Molecular Materials (GRC, Bates College, USA), invited speaker

•             15-18 VI 2014 – International NanoFun 2014 conference (Pultusk, Poland), invited speaker and poster co-author

•             28-30 V 2014 – International Conference on Fluorine Chemistry 2014 (Yokohama, Japan), invited speaker

•             11-13 V 2014 – joint Royal Society-German Academy of Sciences Discussion Meeting “New Chemistry of the Elements: From Medicine to Materials” (London, UK), invited speaker

•             27 IV - 4 V 2014 – 41 International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism (Antalya, Turkey), speaker

•             8-12 XII 2013 – IC'13 - RACI Inorganic Chemistry Divisional Conference (Brisbane, Australia), speaker 

•             28-29 X 2013 – 'New functionalities in molecular materials' workshop (Cracow, Poland), invited speaker 

•             23 X 2013 – 'Mobility of Polish scientists' - symposium of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland)

•             27-29 IX 2013 – The Conference of the PhD Students of the KNOW Faculties of Chemistry (University of Warsaw and of Warsaw Technical University) (Hotel Ossa, Wólka Lesiewska, Poland), 3 posters' co-author

•             21-24 IX 2013 - ISMech 2013 (Ossa, Wólka Lesiewska, Poland), 2 posters' co-author

•             16-20 IX 2013 – The 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society (PTChem) (Siedlce, Poland), invited speaker (x3) and speaker (x1) 

•             1-4 IX 2013 – Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2013 (Darmstadt, Germany), invited keynote speaker

•             20-26 VII 2013 – 17^th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (Paris, France), speaker

•             9-12 VII 2013 – 10^th International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies, NN13 (Thessaloniki, Greece), 2 posters' co-author

•             2-5 VI 2013 – ISoFT 2013 (Budapest, Hungary), speaker 

•             25 III 2013 – The 6th CEPT Conference (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker

•             27 XI 2012 – The 5th CEPT Conference (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker

•             14-19 IX 2012 – MDMM 2012 (Wroclaw, Poland), invited speaker

•             22-27 VII 2012 – 20th ISFC (Kyoto, Japan), keynote speaker

•             17 V 2012 – VI Forum of Chemistry Students in Warsaw “Chemofor” (Warsaw, Poland) plenary speaker

•             30 IV-3 V 2012 – XXXVI Polish School of Chemistry “At the roots of science” (Zegrze, Poland) invited speaker

•             12-16 XII 2011 – International Conference on Advanced Materials ICAM (Coimbatore, India) invited speaker (cancelled due to technical problems)

•             4 XI 2011 – The 4^th CEPT Conference (Warsaw, Poland), poster's co-author

•             26 X 2011 – The PROCEED Workshop (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker

•             23-26 III 2011 – Winter Grant Session of KDM@ICM 2011 (Bedlewo, Poland), 2 posters' co-author

•             15-20 XII 2010 – Pacifichem 2010 (Honolulu, USA), speaker

•             14-19 XI 2010 – The International Conference ‘Nano- and Surface Science Approaches to Production and Storage of Hydrogen’ (the 4th RTN Meeting, Leiden, Netherlands), speaker

•             4 XI 2010 – The 3rd CEPT Conference (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker & poster's co-author

•             18-24 VII 2010 – 16th ESFC 2010 (Ljubljana, Slovenia), invited speaker 

•             4-8 VII 2010 – MDMM 2010 (Wroclaw, Poland), invited speaker 

•             23-28 VIII 2009 – The 19th ISFC – ISoFT'09 (Grand Teton, USA), invited speaker 

•             19-22 VII 2009 – Advanced Crystallography at High Pressure, 2009 IUCr workshop (Harbin, China), invited speaker 

•             4-14 VI 2009 – Int. School of Crystallography, 41st Course: From Novel Experimental Approaches to Applications in Cutting-Edge Technologies (Erice, Italy), invited speaker 

•             3-6 I 2009 – Hydrogen and Hydrogen Storage: Methods and Materials (Bangalore, India), speaker 

•             10-11 XII 2008 – New Chemistry of the Elements: RSC Symposium in honour of Professor the Lord Lewis of Newnham (London, UK), invited speaker 

•             15-19 IX 2008 – E-MRS Fall Meeting (Warsaw, Poland), poster's co-author 

•             14-18 IX 2008 – EU Network Hydrogen2 Symposium (Reykjavik, Iceland), invited speaker 

•             24-28 VI 2008 – Metal Hydrogen Systems Conference (Reykjavik, Iceland), 2 posters’ co-author

•             26-30 V 2008 – E-MRS Spring Meeting (Strasbourg, France), poster presentation 

•             21-22 II 2008 – Mathematics for key technologies and innovation (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker 

•             6-9 IV 2008 – 5th School of Thermal Analysis SAT'08 (Zakopane, Poland) – poster's co-author

•             10-14 XII 2007 – 23rd Winter School in Quantum Chemistry 2007 (Helsinki, Finland), poster's co-author

•             6-8 XII 2007 – 2nd Workshop on ab initio phonon calculations (Cracow, Poland) – posters' co-author

•             17-21 IX 2007 – The Fall Meeting of the E-MRS (PW, Warsaw, Poland), posters’ co-author

•             9-12 IX 2007 – The 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Polish Chemical Society (UMK, Toruń, Poland), invited speaker 

•             15-20 VII 2007 – 15th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (Inst. Chem. Techn., Prague, Czech Rep.), speaker and poster's co-author

•             8-13 VII 2007 – Hydrogen Metal Systems (Gordon Research Conference) (Colby College, Waterville ME, USA), poster's co-author

•             16-17 IV 2007 – EU Network Hydrogen2 Symposium (Shell, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), invited speaker 

•             10-15 IX 2006 – Modelling and Design of Molecular Materials 2006 (Technical Univ. Of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland), invited speaker 

•             7-8 IX 2006 – Polish-German Workshop: Modelling Structure Formation (ICM, Univ. Of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker 

•             20-25 VIII 2006 – XVIII IUPAC Conference On Physical Organic Chemistry (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker 

•             21-22 VI 2006 – Accelrys Materials Science UGM (ICM, Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker 

•             10-15 VII 2005 – Hydrogen Metal Systems (Gordon Research Conference) (Colby College, Waterville ME, USA), invited speaker 

•             6 XI 2004 – 4th Fall Workshop - Complex processes: modelling, simulation and optimisation (Bedlewo, Poland), invited speaker 

•             17-18 IX 2004 – Modelling and Design of Molecular Materials (Wroclaw, Poland), invited speaker and poster's co-author

•             7-10 IX 2004 – International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems (Cracow, Poland), poster presentation 

•             5-6 IX 2004 – E-MRS Fall Meeting (Warsaw, Poland), invited speaker and poster's co-author 

•             26 VI 2004 – Andreas Albrecht's Tribute Symposium (Ithaca, USA), speaker 

•             19-20 XII 2001 – RSC Solid State Group Christmas Meeting (Birmingham, UK), poster's co-author 

•             16-22 VIII 2000 – 15th International Jahn-Teller Symposium “Vibronic Interactions in Crystals and Molecules” (Boston, USA), invited speaker 

•             5-10 IX 1999 – 50th ISE Meeting: “200 Years of Electrochemical Energy Conversion” (Pavia, Italy), poster's co-author

•             22-25 VIII 1998 – 2nd International Conference: ”Vibrational Spectroscopy in Materials Science” (Kraków, Poland), poster presentation 

•             21-25 VIII 1995 – 6th International Frumkin Symposium: “Fundamental Aspects of Electrochemistry” (Moscow, Russia), poster's co-author

 

135 lectures in scientific institutions in Poland (70) and abroad (65):

•             TBA, Bariloche, Argentina, TBA 2025

•             TBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, TBA 2025

•             ‘Let us invert the ligand field”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 25 Oct 2024

•             Four lectures for PhD students, Institute of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, 9-10 Oct 2023

•             “Application of Ag(II) oxidizers in organic chemistry: focus on Ag(II)SO₄”, Institute of Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry „C. D. Nenițescu”, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, 6 Oct 2023

•             “Physics of Ag(II) species: a 2023 update”, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 28 Sep 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – the founding ideas and possibility of a new application for conjugated organic polymers”, University of Strasbourg and ICS CNRS, Strasbourg, France, 26 Sep 2023

•             “Physics of Ag(II) species: a 2023 update”, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 Sep 2023

•             “Application of Ag(II) oxidizers in organic chemistry: focus on Ag(II)SO₄”, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 20 Sep 2023

•             “Application of Ag(II) oxidizers in organic chemistry: focus on Ag(II)SO₄”, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Rep., 18 Sep 2023

•             “The pyramid of sciences”, Czacki High School, Warsaw, Poland, 6 Sep 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics”, Technical University of Poznan, Poznan, Poland, 25 May 2023

•             “How after a quarter century of doing research I have become believing and practicing organic chemist”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 24 May 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics”, University of Wroclaw, Latajka Festschrift, Wroclaw, Poland, 23 May 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – a novel nano-device for chemists of all flavours”, University of Opole, Opole, Poland, 18 May 2023

•             “Use of divalent silver in organic chemistry”, Fluorochemika LLC, Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland, 17 May 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics”, University Babes Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania, 9 May 2023 (online)

•             “Watch the colours – or about qualitative thinking in chemistry”, Polish Fund for Talented Children, Falenty, Poland 30 Apr 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – a novel nano-device for metallization of insulators”, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 21 Mar 2023

•             “Chemical capacitor – a novel nano-device for chemists of all flavours”, UMCS, University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland, 13 Mar 2023

•             “A chemist’s way of thinking about the solid-state structures, properties and phenomena”, La Sapienza, University of Rome, 21 Dec 2022

•             “Ag fluorides as a replacement for Cu oxides towards high-T_C superconductivity”, ICCOM CNR, Florence, 19 Dec 2022

•             “A “Chemical Capacitor” – and what it brings to chemistry and physics”, University of Bolonia, 15 Dec 2022

•             “Ag fluorides as a replacement for Cu oxides towards high-T_C superconductivity”, University of Parma, 13 Dec 2022

•             “’Noble’ gold?”, University of Warsaw, Special Seminar, 9 Dec 2022

•             “A Chemical Capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics”, University of Barcelona, 25 Nov 2022

•             “Everything you would like to know about my chemistry – but are afraid to ask”, Kolo Naukowe Chemikow ProbUWka (MiSMAP), 14 Nov 2022

•             “Not all silver that glitters: peculiarities of divalent silver”, La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain, Blas Cabrera Seminar, 19 May 2022 (postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             “A Chemical Capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics”, La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain, Blas Cabrera Seminar, 17 May 2022 (postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             "Chemistry of helium", Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland), 18 Mar 2022

•             "A Chemical Capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics", Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland), 17 Mar 2022

•             “Ag(II)-based oxidizers in inorganic and organic chemistry”, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), 26 Jan 2022

•             "A Chemical Capacitor – and what it brings to chemistry and physics", Cornell University, Ithaca NY (USA), 22 Jan 2022

•             "Separation-controlled redox reactions", Meetings of the Warsaw section of the Polish Society of Chemistry, Warsaw (Poland), 6 Dec 2021

•             “Reactivity of Ag(2+) compounds towards organic matter”, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 4 Nov 2021

•             “Cornucopia of surprises from Ag(2+), a heavier analogue of Cu(2+)”, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 2 Nov 2021 (postponed due to coronavirus outbreak)

•             “Redox reactions which you never heard about”, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, 15 Jul 2021

•             “New method of electronic doping to the most stubborn electronic insulators”, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, 12 Jul 2021

•             “Everything you would like to know about redox reactions but are afraid to ask”, Freie University, Berlin, Germany, 7 Jul 2021

•             “Redox reactions which you never heard about”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 5 Jul 2021

•             “Redox reactions which you never heard about”, Talented Children Fund, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 18 Jun 2021

•             “Electric current without paying a penny for your energy transmission bill”, CeNT, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, CeNT webinar, 7 May 2021

•             “The new discoveries in chemistry”, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland, Seminar for PhD students of strict, natural and life sciences, 17 Mar 2021

•             “Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials, LTNFM”, CeNT, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 23 Feb 2021

•             “Towards greener storage and transfer of energy”, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 31 Jan 2020 (Distinguished Visitor Lecture)

•             “Remarkable fluoroargentates(II) – the ultimate siblings of oxocuprates”, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 20 Jan 2020

•             “A few words about elements which are more electronegative than fluorine”, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, Koroniak Festschrift, 6 Dec 2019

•             “Silverland, terra (still) incognita of divalent silver (Ag2+)”, University of Cologne, Germany, 6 Nov 2019

•             “Maximum Hardness Principle applied to solids”, RWTH Aachen, Germany, 5 Nov 2019

•             “Not all silver that glitters…”, National Children Fund, Serock, Poland, 30 Apr 2019

•             “Silver fluorides hosting immensely strong superexchange as candidates for novel superconductors”, HP-Star, Shanghai, China, 5 Nov 2018

•             “Not all silver that glitters: new magnetic and electronic materials based on Ag(2+)”, Faculty of Physics, Hong-Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong-Kong, China, 31 Oct 2018

•             "From one-dimensional magnets to novel high-TC superconductor precursors", Faculty of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 19 May 2018

•             "Emerging electronic and magnetic materials based on Ag(2+)", ICQM, Peking University, Beijing, China, 16 May 2018

•             “Silver route to cuprate analogs”, Department of Physics, Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw, 20 Apr 2018

•             “Made in LTNMF”, 1st Session of CeNT, Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw, 15 Mar 2018

•             “Unusual silver(II) fluorides”, Press conference, CeNT, Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw, 5 Jul 2017

•             "Silverland: dziwolągi w chemii i fizyce związków dwuwartościowego srebra", Workshop of KFnRD, Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw, 23 Jun 2017

•             "Silverland: the peculiarities of chemistry and physics of the compounds of divalent silver", Univ. of Gdansk, Gdansk, 22 May 2017

•             "From hydrogen storage materials, via magnetic hydrides, towards H-rich metals and superconductors", Nanyang Techn. Univ., Singapore, 22 Jul 2016

•             "New advances in hydrogen-rich materials from the HYDRA project", Inst. Chem. Phys., Chin. Acad. Sci., Dalian, China, 12 Jul 2016

•             "The Maximum Hardness Principle: systems, reactions, phenomena", Univ. of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 29 Jun 2016

•             "Everything you would like to know about divalent silver but are afraid to ask", Univ. of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, 27 Jun 2016

•             "Chemistry and physics of silver(II): a cornucopia of peculiarities", RWTH, Aachen Univ., Germany, 17 Jun 2016

•             "The Maximum Hardness Principle at ambient and elevated pressure", CSEC, Univ. Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 21 Apr 2016

•             "Very strong magnetic superexchange, oxidizing properties, and other peculiarities of Ag(II) compounds", Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK, 20 Apr 2016

•             "Quantum systems (molecular and in the solid state) – a drama in several acts", UMK, Torun, Poland, 14 May 2015

•             "Ag(II) – oxidizer par excellence", Freie Univ., Berlin, Germany, 13 Apr 2015

•             "Modern Fluorine Chemistry", 15hrs invited lecture cycle for PhD students @ AUM, Poznan, Poland, 9-10 & 20-21 Apr 2015

•             "The Pressure is On (a few impressions from a chemist)", CSEC, Univ. Edinburgh, UK, 9 Jan 2015

•             "Chemistry is fun!", the meeting of Nanorurki Student Organization (physics) “Opowieści nanotreści”, Grochownia club, Warsaw 30 Oct 2014

•             "LTNFM in a pill", the first CENT seminar, University of Warsaw, Warsaw 15 Oct 2014

•             "Fluorine chemistry enabling new energy storage technologies", Dept. Inorg.Chem., Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana 4 Jul 2014

•             "Quantum chemical systems of all flavours", Dept. of Appl. Chem., National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan), 6 Jun 2014

•             "New developments in hydridic and protonic/hydridic hydrogen storage materials", Dept. of Mater. Sci., Fudan University (Shanghai), 2 Jun 2014

•             "New hydrogen storage technologies from the University of Warsaw", Inst. for Adv. Mater. Res., Hiroshima University, 26 May 2014

•             "Everything you would like to know about diamonds - but are afraid to ask", Thursday Meetings of the Polish Society of Chemistry, Warsaw (Poland), 13 Mar 2014

•             “Chemical inertness of helium and neon: The great challenge” E-Free talk @ Geophys. Lab, Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington DC, USA, 26 Jun 2013

•             “Chemistry of silver, fluorine, hydrogen and noble gases: examples of interesting structures and physicochemical properties” Fac. Chemistry, Univ. Warsaw, Warsaw Poland, 12 Jun 2013

•             “Can one oxidize helium?” National Fund for Talented Children course, Serock, Poland, 29 Apr 2013

•             “Fascinating magnetic properties of the compounds of Ag(2+), a heavier congener of Cu(2+)”, Fac. Physics, Univ. Warsaw, Warsaw Poland, 19 Apr 2013

•             “The chemical stew: noble gases, strong oxidizers, hydrides and fluorides in one pot and at high pressure”, Meetings of the Fullerene Student Organization (chemistry) “Mam ochotę na chemię”, 18 Apr 2013

•             “Chemical inertness of helium and neon: The great challenge”, Wroclaw Univ., Wroclaw Poland, 9 Apr 2013

•             “Fluorine chemistry enabling some unusual oxo- chemistry”, Jagiellonian Univ., Cracow Poland, 1 Mar 2013 (for advanced materials and nanotechnology students)

•             “Challenges and achievements of the TEAM project”, press conference @ Univ. Warsaw, Poland, 22 Jan 2013

•             “Properties of fluorinated materials from quantum chemical methods”, Freie Univ., Berlin Germany, 23 Nov 2012 (graduate school on F chemistry)

•             “Fluorine chemistry enabling some unusual oxo- chemistry”, Humboldt Univ., Berlin Germany, 22 Nov 2012 (graduate school on F chemistry)

•             “Unusual compounds of Ag(2+) – why they are excellent candidates for new high-TC SCs” E-Free talk @ Geophys. Lab, Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Washington DC, USA, 26 Sep 2012

•             “Higher oxidation states of silver - and their physico-chemical peculiarities” Univ. of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, 27 Jul 2012

•             “Compounds of Ag(2+) and Ag(3+) - their physicochemical peculiarities and first experiments at high pressure” Univ. of Mainz, Mainz, 1 Jul 2012

•             “Compounds of Ag(2+) and Ag(3+) - a cornucopia of unusual chemical and physical phenomena” Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg, 20 Jun 2012

•             “High-pressure – what it can do to electronic, magnetic and energy storage materials” Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig, 24 Apr 2012

•             “silverAge – Siarkopol & Univ. of Warsaw – potential for cooperation” SIARKOPOL, Osiek, 5 Apr 2011

•             “Silver(2+) – a short thriller about an unusual electron thieve” IBB PAN, Warsaw, 3 Mar 2011 (KFnrD workshop)

•             „From vibrational spectroscopy to chemistry of noble gases a.k.a. one’s fascination in chemistry” ICM, The Univ. of Warsaw, 15 Oct 2010    lecture_in_Polish

•             „You love diamonds? You will love expanded diamonds even more!” ICM, The Univ. of Warsaw, 23 Apr 2010

•             „Modeling and experiment – two approaches of modern inorganic chemistry. Profile of LTNMF ICM UW in a pill.” ICM, The Univ. of Warsaw, 12 Feb 2010 & 21 May 2010

•             "Idź złoto do złota, a my Polacy kochamy się w … srebrze – słów kilka o niezwykłych własnościach związków dwuwartościowego srebra", Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 10 Feb 2010 (Pol. Soc. Chem. colloquium)

•             "Przez fonony do trwałych struktur: przykłady zastosowań nowego algorytmu poszukiwania minimów energii w chemii nieorganicznej", Inst. Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow, 9 Feb 2010

•             "Quo vadis noble gas chemistry?", Universita de la Tuscia, Viterbo, 9 Jun 2009

•             "Quest for superconductivity in compounds of divalent silver: 8 years after the prediction ", Jozef Stefan Institute Seminar, Ljubljana, 5 Jun 2009  see video

•             "Copper, silver and gold - different, different, different!", Institute of Inorganic Chemistry Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 3 Jun 2009

•             "Use of powder XRD for investigations carried out in the LTNFM UW", LBS, Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw, 26 Nov 2008

•             "Unusual oxidation states, unusual bonds and The Realm of High Pressure", Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, 2 Jun 2008

•             "Between Zero and Infinity", MKTI conference, Warsaw, 22 Feb 2008

•             "Putting the squeeze on AgF2", Winter Grant Session of KDM@ICM, Jadwisin, 10 Mar 2007

•             “At Non–Stochastic Paths of the Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials, ICM”, ICM, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 7 Sep 2006

•             “Cs2AgF4 - ferromagnetic analogue of oxocuprate superconductors, Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 19 May 2006

•             "New kind of molecular memory based on intramolecular 2e– redox reaction", Winter Grant Session of KDM@ICM, Piecki, 18 Feb 2006

•             "Investigations of the electronic and phononic structure of novel fluorides of Ag(II), multinary hydrides and derivatives of MgB2", Winter Grant Session of KDM@ICM, Piecki, 18 Feb 2006

•             "Dawn of the new chemistry - on the atypical compounds of gases, which once have been called 'noble' ", Winter School of Student Section of The Polish Chemical Society, Warsaw, 10 Dec 2005

•             "Titanium–Substituted Hydrocarbons", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 4 Nov 2005

•             "Hydrogen Wars i.e. the fall of the fossil fuels era", Inauguration of the Academic Year at the Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 30 Sep 2005

•             "When I am Squeezing Molecules ... i.e. Chemistry at Ultra-High Pressures", ChemSession II, Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 13 May 2005,

•             "When I am Squeezing Molecules ... i.e. Chemistry at Ultra-High Pressures",  Department of Chemistry, The Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun (Poland), 27 Apr 2005

•             "When I am Squeezing Molecules ... i.e. Chemistry at Ultra-High Pressures",  the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 28 Oct 2005

•             "From generic 2e– electromerism towards a novel mnemonic device", Geophysical Laboratory, The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington DC, US), 3 Feb 2005

•             "Possibility of Metallizing Silane at High Pressure - a DFT Study", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 5 Nov 2004

•             "Hunt for the Novel Families of High-Tc Superconductors: Fluorides and Hydrides", Chemistry Department, McMaster University (Hamilton ON, Canada), 20 Jul 2004

•             "Hydrogen storage for transportation; Challenges and tasks of chemistry", Geophysical Laboratory, The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington DC, US), 7 Jul 2004

•             "Hunt for the Novel Families of High-Tc Superconductors: Fluorides and Hydrides", Geophysical Laboratory, The Carnegie Institution of Washington (Washington DC, US), 6 Jul 2004

•             "Everything you would like to know on use of the ultra-high pressures in chemistry, but are afraid to ask", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 3 Mar 2004

•             "Dawn of the new chemistry - on the atypical compounds of gases, which once have been called 'noble' ", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 27 Feb 2004

•             "Vehicles fueled with hydrogen - the near future or a fiction?", Thursday Meetings of the Polish Society of Chemistry, Warsaw (Poland), 26 Feb 2004

•             "Deliberate choice of the chemical elements of the Mendeleyev's Grand Periodic Table as crucial factor in the construction of new materials", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 17 Jan 2004 

•             "On the common yet desperately–avoided bond lengths in a 'magic state' of solid matter", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 13 Jan 2004 

•             "The low-barrier H2 absorption and molecular memory – what do they have in common?", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 21 Nov 2003 

•             "How to earn billion dollars? The issue of hydrogen storage for transportation", Jozef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia), 9 Sept 2003 

•             "Unusual fluorides of silver at high oxidation states", Jozef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia), 8 Sept 2003 

•             "Theoretical Quest for the Titanium–Substituted Hydrocarbons (TSHs). A simple play on electronegativity", Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 7 May 2003 

•             "Unusual fluorides of silver at high oxidation states", Department of Chemistry, The University of Gdansk (Poland), 4 Dec 2002 

•             "Problems of Hydrogen Storage for Transportation. How Theory Can Help?" as above, 5 Dec 2002 

•             "Applied Quantum Chemistry" Laboratory of Quantum Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 11 April 2002 

•             "Chemistry of Vibronic Coupling" Department of Chemistry, The University of Warsaw (Poland), 1 March 2002 

  

Professional Funding: 

Between 2005 and 2021 WG’s laboratory attracted funding equivalent of +11.9 mln euro

•             2025-2028: M(Ag)NET OPUS project of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by WG /610,000 euro/

•             2017-2022: BST funds @ CeNT (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education), headed by WG /50,000 euro/

•             2022: IDUB project of the Univ. Warsaw, headed by B. Sadowski /80,000 euro/

•             2022: Sonata project of the NAWA, headed by B. Sadowski /400,000 euro/

•             2021: Bekker project of the NAWA, headed by J. Gawraczyński /40,000 euro/ /cancelled by applicant/

•             2021: ChemCap OPUS project of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by WG /436,000 euro/

•             2021: IDUB project of the University of Warsaw, headed by WG /33,000 euro/

•             2020: Preludium project of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by M. Domański tutored by WG /40,000 euro/

•             2020: CYCLO OPUS project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by P. J. Leszczynski /200,000 euro/

•             2019: SONATA BIS project of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by K. Fijalkowski /646,000 euro/

•             2018: Two Preludium projects of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by W. Wegner & J. Gawraczyński tutored by WG /100,000 euro/

•             2018: MAESTRO project of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by WG /800,000 euro/

•             up to 2017: BST funds @ CeNT since 2012 (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education), headed by WG /50,000 euro/

•             2017: Territorial contract project from the Mazovian Voivodship (PL), headed by WG /450,000 euro/ - part of the larger project @ CeNT – participation of Univ. Warsaw cancelled

•             2017: Two Preludium projects of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by A. Grzelak & R. Owarzany tutored by WG /83,000 euro/

•             2017: BEETHOVEN project from the NCN headed by WG /260,000 euro/

•             2017: TANGO project from the NCBiR/NCN headed by K. Fijalkowski /150,000 euro/

•             2017: HOMING Plus project from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) headed by T. Jaron /150,000 euro/

•             2016: SONATA BIS project from NCN headed by A. Szczurek /350,000 euro/

•             2016: TANGO project from NCN & NCBiR headed by K. Fijalkowski /150,000 euro/

•             2016: HiOx OPUS project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by P. Szarek /150,000 euro/

•             2016: SONATA project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by T. Jaron /155,000 euro/

•             2016: Diamond project from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, headed by P. Orłowski & tutored by WG /50,000 euro/

•             2014: MOBILITY PLUS project from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, headed by K. Fijalkowski /80,000 euro/ 

•             2016: HOMING Plus project from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) headed by P. Malinowski /175,000 euro/

•             2016: BIS-TRIS  OPUS project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by P. Szarek /130,000 euro/

•             2016: ACTIVE-OX OPUS project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by P. J. Leszczynski /100,000 euro/

•             2015: SONATA8 project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by P. Malinowski /145,000 euro/

•             2015: Hydra OPUS project from the National Science Centre (NCN) /300,000 euro/

•             2015: SONATA7 project from the National Science Centre (NCN) headed by D. Kurzydlowski /125,000 euro/

•             2014: MOBILITY PLUS project from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, headed by T. Jaron /130,000 euro/ 

•             2014: Diamond project from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, headed by W. Wegner & tutored by WG /50,000 euro/

•             2014: UOTT (University Technology Transfer Office) Project LOOP /5,000 euro/

•             up to 2013: BST funds @ ICM & Faculty of Chemistry since 2006 (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education), headed by WG /200,000 euro/

•             2013: MOBILITY PLUS projects from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, headed by D. Kurzydlowski & P. Malinowski /150,000 euro/ 

•             2013: FUGA project from the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by P. Szarek tutored by WG /50,000 euro/

•             2013: One Preludium project of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by T. Michalowski tutored by WG /23,000 euro/

•             2013: High Pressure HARMONY project of the National Science Centre (NCN) /202,000 euro/

•             2012: Two Preludium projects of the National Science Centre (NCN), headed by K. Fijalkowski & T. Jaron tutored by WG /72,400 euro/

•             2011: Two Iuventus Plus projects from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, headed by K. Fijalkowski & T. Jaron tutored by WG /153,000 euro/

•             2011: AgCENT: novel unique magnetic and electronic materials based on Ag(II) compounds /217,000 euro/

•             2010: Annex to SPUB grant from Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education /147,300 euro/  

•             2010: Annex to TEAM grant from the Foundation for Polish Science, FNP /80,000 euro/  

•             2009: Grant for LTNMF’s research within the Center for Pre-clinical Research and Technology (CEPT) /2.2 mln euro/ 

•             2008: The TEAM grant from the Foundation for Polish Science, FNP /440,000 euro/ 

•             2008: EC 6th FP, Annex to Marie Curie Research Training Network ‘Hydrogen’ 3,54 mln euro /147,300 euro/ 

•             2007: Search for superconductivity in fluorides of Ag and Au, oxocuprates and compounds of noble gases – three small grants (2xBST + KBN) of the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research /50,000 euro/ 

•             2006: SPUB grant from Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education /270,000 euro/  

•             2006: EC 6th FP, Marie Curie Research Training Network ‘Hydrogen’ 3,54 mln euro /270,000 euro/ 

•             up to 2005: BST funds @ Faculty of Chemistry since 2003 (Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education), headed by WG /50,000 euro/

•             2005: structural grant for the Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials /225,000 USD/ 

•             2002: Hydrogen storage in the solid state – two grants (BW & KBN) of the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research /36,000 USD/ 

•             2001: Search for superconductivity in doped fluorides of Ag(II) – grant of the Crescendum est Polonia Foundation /61,500 USD/ 

•             2001: informal participant of the EC Project Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Store for Integration into Automobiles (FUCHSIA) /€ 3 mln/  (ENK6-CT-2000-00318) @ the University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom) 

•             2000, May. – 2000, Sept.: Single molecule detection with SERRS project in cooperation with Prof. Dwayne Miller, at the Photonics Research Ontario and the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada) 

•             1998 – Mnemon project with Prof. Lucjan Piela, at the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Quantum Chemistry Laboratory, Warsaw (Poland) 

  

Present occupation (permanent): 

Full (tenured) Professor at the University of Warsaw and Head of the Laboratory of Technology of Novel Functional Materials at the Center for New Technologies (CENT), The University of Warsaw. 

This occupation involves research, teaching and supervision of bachelor, undergraduate and graduate students, and postdocs. 

  

Other professional activities: 

•             2024: serving as a panel expert for the 2^nd Nawa Congress (Warsaw) 

•             2024: serving as an external expert for Chalmers Univ. Techn. (Sweden) 

•             2024-: serving as an expert of FNP programs 

•             2018-: serving as a reviewer of 10 habilitation (DSc) These and 7 full professor nominations as well as other recommendations

•             2023: serving as a member of International Advisory Board of the 21^st European Fluorine Chemistry Symposium, 11-15th February 2025, Lisboa, Portugal 

•             2023: serving as a member of International Advisory Board of the 2^nd South African Fluorine Symposium, 11-15th February 2024, Sun City, SA 

•             2023: serving as a member of International Advisory Board of the 23^rd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry – 9^th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies (Quebec City, Canada, July 18-23, 2021, moved from 2021 due to Covid’19

•             2022-: serving as a member of Editorial Board of “Virtual orbital”, journal organ of the Warsaw Section of the Polish Chemical Society

•             2022: serving as a member of International Advisory Board of the 20^th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (Berlin, Germany, Aug 14-19, 2022)

•             2022: interview for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (Polish weekly) on hydrogen economy

•             2021: serving for Scientific Board of the EMRS Fall Meeting 2020, Symposium G (Warsaw, Poland, 14-17 Sep 2020), moved from 2020 to 2021

•             2021-2022: serving as Review Editor, Frontiers in Chemistry journal

•             2021: voted to be a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society (TNW), section III

•             2021-4 serving for Council of Scientific Discipline (in the field of chemistry) of the University of Warsaw

•             2021: serving for Expert Workgroup of the Ministry of Climate and Environment (Hydrogen economy)

•             2021 serving for Evaluation Commission of CeNT UW employees (chairman)

•             2020: serving for Advisory Board of the 3^rd Symposium on Ab Initio Calculations (Cracow, Poland, 26-27 May 2020) cancelled due to coronavirus pandemia

•             2019-: serving for Advisory Board of the Journal of the European Society of Mathematical Chemistry

•             2019: serving as an Organizing Committee Member for symposium “Magnetic Materials 2019” (Barcelona, Spain, Oct 16-17, 2019) 

•             2019-2002: serving for Scientific Board of Polish edition of EUCYS (managed by Polish Children's Fund)

•             2019: serving as a Chairman of the Symposium “150 years of The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” (Warsaw, Poland, 30 Sep 2019)

•             2019: serving (with B. Becker) as a Chairman of Inorganic chemistry section of the 62^nd Polish Chemical Society Meeting, celebrating 100^th anniv. of The Society (Warsaw, Poland, 2-6 Sep 2019)

•             2019: serving as a Chairman of the 19^th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (Warsaw, Poland, 25-31 Aug 2019)

•             2018-: serving for Advisory Board of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (Elsevier)

•             2018-2022: serving as a Chairman of Expert Panel for mobility programs of NAWA agency (Bekker, Polish Returns)

•             2018: serving for Advisory Board of the 2^nd Symposium on Ab Initio Calculations (Cracow, Poland, 12-13 Mar 2018)

•             2017: serving for Organizing Board of 3^rd FunMat 2017 (Cracow, Poland, 8-10 Nov 2017)

•             2017: organizer (with Eva Zurek) of the Roald Hoffmann Festschrift Symposium, 254th ACS National Meeting & Exposition (Washington DC, USA, 20-24 Aug 2017)

•             2016-: member of the European Society of Mathematical Chemistry

•             2016: serving for International Advisory Board of the 18th European Fluorine Symposium (Kiev, Ukraine, 7-12 Aug 2016)

•             2015-2023: member of the Interdisciplinary Panel of the ‘Mobility Plus’ program of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (second term)

•             2015-: member of AIRAPT 

•             2015-: member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference 2nd FUNMAT 2015 (Cracow, 18-20 Nov 2015) 

•             2014-: member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference NANOFUNMAT 2014 (Pultusk, 15-18 Jun 2014) 

•             2014-: serving for the Expert Panel of the Foundation for Polish Science (‘Praxis’ program)

•             2014: serving for Scientific Board of Sci. Rep. (open access journal, Nature Group, UK)

•             2013-: serving as a member of the voting body for the International Henri Moissan Award

•             2013-: serving for the Expert Panel of the National Science Center NCN (‘Synthesis/Materials’)

•             2013-: member of the Polish Chemical Society PTCh 

•             2013: serving for International Advisory Board of the 17th European Fluorine Symposium (Paris, France, 21-25 Jul 2013)

•             2011-: serving for the Expert Panel of the Foundation for Polish Science (‘Ventures’ program)

•             2011: member of the Interdisciplinary Panel of the ‘Mobility Plus’ program of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

•             2011-2015: serving for the Expert Panel of the Foundation for Polish Science (‘Columbus’ program)

•             2010-11: ACS member (division of Fluorine chemistry)

•             2010: serving for Scientific Board of the International Conference ‘Nano and Surface Science Approaches to Production and Storage of Hydrogen’, (Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 14-19 November 2010) 

•             2009: organizer of the International Conference ‘Hydrogen for the future’ (the 3rd RTN Meeting, Warsaw 21-25 Oct 2009) 

•             2009- member of the steering committee of the International and European Symposia on Fluorine Chemistry 

•             2007- : member of the Scientific Council of the Crescendum-Est Polonia Foundation (Poland) 

•             2007-2010: member of the International Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC, UK) 

•             2006-2013: member of the Scientific Council of ICM, The University of Warsaw (Poland) 

•             2006: scientific advisor to The Kosciuszko Foundation (USA/PL), Polish Academic Commission 

•             2004: featured in the 2004 calendar ‘People and Passions’ commemorating Poland’s accession to the EU 

•             2003: seminar on management consulting organized by McKinsey & Company, Poland 

•             2002: review of the concept of FIRE foundation for the Polish Federation of Private Enterpreneurs 

•             2002: establishing contacts with 3TS Venture Partners (an European venture capital company) 

•             2002: meetings on successful shift from R&D to running own spin-off, at the residence of Science Attache of the Federal Republic of Germany in Warsaw, Dr. K. Buschbeck 

•             2001: consulting for the Capital Conceptions company (Texas)

•             1998- : cooperation with National Fund for Talented Children 

  

Sci-pop and related activities: 

•             2024: a series of press article about technologies and inventions of the LTNFM including Polish Press Agency (PAP)

•             2024: interview for Polish Radio Kampus about technologies and inventions of the LTNFM (https://radiokampus.fm/podcasty/kampus-glowny)

•             2024: interview for Polish Radio Dla Ciebie about technologies and inventions of the LTNFM (https://rdc.pl/podcast/z-innej-planety_fY7TF0S0caRGGuoABNJe?episode=EaafoZRZ78qiA4DPksgf&active_page=1)

•             2024: interview for naukovo.pl about Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 (https://youtu.be/qqHsHPe7U4U?si=bujgT_PXleKEqjsK)

•             2023: interview for naukovo.pl about Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

•             2023-: two articles in “Virtual orbital”, journal organ of the Warsaw Section of the Polish Chemical Society, on didactics of chemistry and on TOP500 list

•             2022: interview for naukovo.pl about Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 (https://youtu.be/qOrd8aW-hDo)

•             2022: interview for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (Poland) on hydrogen economy

•             2021: interview for ICMol, Valencia Spain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80VeSZee7jo)

•             2021: meeting with youth of the XXI^st secondary school in Warsaw named after H. Kollataj /Ochota/

•             2021: interview for naukovo.pl about Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDflLnDL14)

•             2020: interview for naukovo.pl about Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-OqdAXWsMc)

•             2019: volume of chemical limercs ‘Chimeryki’ (with A. Pron) commemorating the 150^th anniversary of Mendeleyev’s Periodic Table of Elements  

•             2018: lecture about sciences for pupils of the 360^th primary school in Warsaw /Ursus/

•             2018: article for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on 2D AgF₂ antiferromagnet, analogue of oxocuprates(II) 

•             2017: article for UW/CeNT www on new unusual type of nanotubes 

•             2017: article for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on record strong magnetic superexchange and other recent discoveries 

•             2016: article for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on magnetic properties of double perovskite M₂AgF₄ phases

•             2014-: teaching science to students of humanities (Artes Liberales college @ the Univ. of Warsaw)

•             2014: article in Orbital (Pol. Chem. Soc.) about most cited papers of chemists with Polish affiliation

•             2014: biography of Prof. Lucjan Piela (article in Orbital, Pol. Chem. Soc.)

•             2013: article for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on magnetic properties of KAgF3 (published in Jul/Aug 2013 issue)

•             2013: article for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on goals and achievements of the TEAM projects (published in Mar/Apr 2013 issue)

•             2013: interview for “Voice of Polish Science” bulletin of the “Warsaw Voice”

•             2012: two articles for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on water vapour sponge material, and on HeO molecule trapped between LiF dipoles (published in Oct & Nov 2012 issues)

•             2012: book review for Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.

•             2012: pop-sci article with K. Fijalkowski about superconductivity (Georgian-Polish collab.)

•             2012: interview for POLSAT TV on Center for Novel Technologies (‘Copernicus’ program)

•             2011: two articles for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on thermal decomposition of AgSO4, and on unusual crystal structure by accident (published in Sep 2011 issue)

•             2011: article in CIECH newsletter (www.ciech.com) on ‘Polish discoverer of the year in the field of chemistry 2010’ (March issue)

•             2011: article by L. Piela et al. for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on the mission of University

•             2010: interview, with Mr. A. J. Churchard, for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ on catalysts for H2 storage (published in Dec 2010 issue)

•             2010: interview, with Mr. A. J. Churchard, for Polish Radio on catalysts for H2 storage (12 Oct 2010)

•             2010: participation in the 14th Scientific Picknick of the Polish Radio, Warsaw (12 Jun 2010)

•             2010: interview for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ about the first synthesis and unusual properties of AgSO₄ (Mar 2010)

•             2008: interview for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ about design of novel molecules containing chemically bound helium (Dec 2008)

•             2008: interview for ‘Kaleidoscope’ – a monthly in-flight magazine of LOT Polish Airlines (Mar 2008)

•             2007: interview for ‘Kwartalnik UW’ about research conducted by LTNFM (Oct 2007)

•             2006: interview for Sparing web portal (www.sparing.pl)

•             2006: interview for ‘The Warsaw Voice’ on the future of H2–fueled vehicles (Feb 2006)

•             2005: interview for Polish TV1 on current status of hydrogen storage technologies ('Symulator Faktu' 28 Oct 2005)

•             2003: interview for the Department of Environment Protection of IKEA on novel environmentally benign technologies, and couple of interviews for Polish radio

•             2003: website review for Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl.

 

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