Education & career

2022 – Full professor

2017 – Habilitation degree in chemistry

Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poznań, Poland,
title: “Synthesis, structural and spectroscopic properties of nanomaterials doped with lanthanide ions showing up-conversion phenomenon”.

2011 PhD in chemistry

Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poznań, Poland,
title: “Synthesis and photophysical properties of nanomaterials doped with lanthanide(III) ions”, supervisor: prof. dr. Stefan Lis.

2007 MSc

Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poznań, Poland,
title: “Electrochemiluminescence of Eu³⁺ and Tb³⁺ complexes in water solutions”, supervisor: prof. dr. Stefan Lis.

Research grants (as Principal Investigator)

2023-2027 – National Science Centre Poland, Opus grant No. 2022/45/B/ST5/00604 (460 000 EUR)

2022-2028 – National Science Centre Poland, Opus grant No. 2021/43/B/ST5/00046 (495 000 EUR)

2017-2022 – National Science Centre Poland, Sonata-Bis grant No. UMO-2016/22/E/ST5/00016 (450 000 EUR)

2015-2017 – Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Iuventus Plus grant No. IP2014 014573 (67 000 EUR)

2012-2016 – National Science Centre Poland, Sonata grant No. UMO-2011/03/D/ST5/05701 (195 000 EUR)

2009-2011 – Foundation for Polish Science, Ventures grant financed by EU European Regional Development, Ventures/2009-4/2 (25 000 EUR)

European Projects

Associated partner – NanoBio4Can – “Nanobiotechnologies for Innovative Therapeutic Approaches for Cancer”) postdoctoral programme is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Programme (Horizon Europe Grant Agreement No. 101126492)

COST membership – CA20101 – Plastics Monitoring Detection Remediation Recovery (2021 – 2025)

COST membership – CM1403 – The European upconversion network – from the design of photon-upconverting nanomaterials to biomedical applications (2014 – 2018)

Prizes and Awards

2018 – first degree award from Minister of Science and Higher Education for an academic teacher

2017 – Scholarship granted by the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for academic achievments.

2014- Scholarship for Prominent Young Scientist granted by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

2013 – START Scholarship for outstanding young scholars at the beginning of their scientific careers granted by Foundation for Polish Science.

2012-2019 – Team Award for Scientific Achievements granted by the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University (granted in every year since 2012).

2012 – Distinction award in the competition for the best PhD thesis, granted by Polish Chemical Society.

Research stays

2026.06 (3 weeks) University of La Laguna, Department of Physics (Spain)

2025.03 (3 weeks) University of La Laguna, Department of Physics (Spain)

2024.10-11 (1 week) University of Aveiro, Department of Biology (Portugal)

2024.09-10 (2 weeks) Masaryk University, Department of Biotechnology (Czech Republic)

2024.01-02 (3 weeks) University of La Laguna, Department of Physics (Spain)

2023.03-04 (2 weeks) Masaryk University, Department of Biotechnology (Czech Republic)

2021.09-12 (3 months) University of La Laguna, Department of Physics (Spain)

2016.08-09 (6 weeks) University of Aveiro, Department of Physics (Portugal)

2010.05-07 (2 months) University of Turku, Department of Chemistry (Finland)

Talks at international conferences

2025 – SHIFT 2025 – Spectral sHapIng For biomedical and energy applicaTions, 13-17.10.2025, Tenerife, Spain.

2024 – International Workshops on Photoluminescence of Rare-Earths: Photonic Materials and Applications, (PRE’24), 13-15.05.2024, Trento, Italy

2023 – 9^th International Symposium on Optical Materials (IS-OM’9), Rovira i Virgili University, 26-30.06.2023,Tarragona, Spain

2022 – SHIFT 2022 – Spectral sHapIng For biomedical and energy applicaTions, 10-14.10.2022, Tenerife, Spain

2022 – 21^st International Conference on Dynamical Processes in Excited States of Solids, 04-09.09.2022, Wrocław, Poland.

2022 – 21^st International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence & XIX International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry, 31.05-03.062022, Gijon, Spain.

2021 – UPCONLINE 2021, 3^rd Conference on Properties, Design, and Applications of Upconversion Nanomaterials, 06-09.04.2021.

2019 – 8^th International Workshop on Photoluminescence in Rare Earths: Photonic Materials and Devices, PRE’19, 04-06.09.2019, Nice, France.

2018 – The 2^nd Conference on Properties, Design and Applications of Upconversion Nanomaterials, UPCON´18, 04-06.04.2018, Valencia, Spain.

2017 – Spectral Shaping For Biomedical and Energy Applications – SHIFT 2017, 13-17.11.2017, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

2016 – International Conference on Rare Earths, 05-10.06.2016, Sapporo, Japan.

2016 – 1^st Conference and Spring School on Properties, Design and Applications of Upconverting Nanomaterials, 23-27.05. 2016, Wrocław, Poland.

2015 – International Conference on Science, Technology and Applications of Rare Earths (STAR 2015), 23-25.04.2015, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.