NAMES - Key Persons

Agnieszka Tadrzak

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Alina Ciach

Job Titles:
  • Supervisor
CarolinaCruzwasborninMedellin-Colombia.SheisChemicalEngineerwithaMsc.Chemistrydegree,bothfromtheNationalUniversityofColombia,whereshealsoworked,duringhermasterstudies,asAuxiliaryProfessoroftheundergraduatecourseofChemistryoftheDepartmentofChemistryatScienceFaculty.

Ashmita Bose

AshmitaBosewasbornandbroughtupinthecityofKolkata,India.ShereceivedhonoursinPhysics(aspecializedphysicscourse)duringhisbachelorsandstudiedinLadyBrabourneCollege,UniversityofCalcutta.ThencarryforwardedhismasterdegreeinPhysicsatVITUniversity,VelloreTamilNadu,India.

Beata Lesiak-Orłowska

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  • Supervisor
RangamNehawasborninIndia,whereshequalifiedtheAllIndiaEngineeringEntranceExamandjoinedBhagwantUniversity,Ajmerfor4yearsBachelorofTechnologyinNanotechnology.Shegraduatedwithfourconsecutiveawardsfortopscore.SheworkedonMultiferroicsatDeviAhilyaVishwavidyalaya(DAVV),Indore,PhotoniccrystalsatNationalInstituteofScienceandTechnology(NIST),OrissaduringherBachelors.

Bogdan Nowakowski

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  • Supervisor
GabrielMorgadowasborninParis.HeobtainedaBachelordegreeinphysicsandaMaster'sdegreewithspecializationinstatisticalphysicsattheUniversitéPierreetMarieCurie,inveryselectivecoursesofcutting-edgeknowledge.GabrielMorgadoiscurrentlyworkingontheeffectofconfinementonTuringstructureswithDr.hab.BogdanNowakowski(IPC)andDr.hab.AnnieLemarchand(LPTMC,UPMC,France)

Carolina Cruz

CarolinaCruzwasborninMedellin-Colombia.SheisChemicalEngineerwithaMsc.Chemistrydegree,bothfromtheNationalUniversityofColombia,whereshealsoworked,duringhermasterstudies,asAuxiliaryProfessoroftheundergraduatecourseofChemistryoftheDepartmentofChemistryatScienceFaculty.

Gabriel Morgado

GabrielMorgadowasborninParis.HeobtainedaBachelordegreeinphysicsandaMaster'sdegreewithspecializationinstatisticalphysicsattheUniversitéPierreetMarieCurie,inveryselectivecoursesofcutting-edgeknowledge.GabrielMorgadoiscurrentlyworkingontheeffectofconfinementonTuringstructureswithDr.hab.BogdanNowakowski(IPC)andDr.hab.AnnieLemarchand(LPTMC,UPMC,France)

Horacio Serna

HoracioSernawasborninCartago(asmallcityinValledelCauca,Colombia),butmovedtoMedellin,thesecondcityinimportanceofColombia,wherehecompletedallhisacademictraining.HegothisB.Sc.degreeinChemicalEngineeringin2015andfinishedwithtopscoresinICFESSaberProTest,whichistheStateTestforprofessionalsinColombiaandisarequirementforgettingtheB.Sc.degree.

Jacek Waluk

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  • Supervisor
WassieMershaTakelewasborninEthiopia,whereheobtainedM.Sc.degreeinPhysicalChemistry.HewasawardedanErasmusMundusMastersscholarshipagainstverystronginternationalcompetition.Hismainresearchinterestsincludemolecularspectroscopyandopticalsensing.Throughouthispreviousresearchexperiences,Wassiehaddevelopedstrongskillsinsynthesisandcharacterizationofmetalnanoparticles,surfaceenhancedRamanspectroscopyandfluorescence-basedopticalchemicalsensors.

Janusz Lewiński

Job Titles:
  • Supervisor
RashmiRunjhunreceivedherdualdegreeBS-MSinPhysicsfromIndianInstituteofScienceEducationandResearch(IISER)Pune,Indiain2014.Duringhergraduatestudies,shewasawardedtheprestigiousInnovationinSciencePursuitforInspiredResearch(INSPIRE)fellowshipfromDepartmentofScienceandTechnologyIndiaforaperiodoffiveyears. NataliaOlejnik​-FehérwasborninPoland,finishedherBScandMScstudiesatNicolausCopernicusUniversityinToruń,Poland,whereshespecializedfirstinbiomedicalchemistryandafterthatinChemistryofAdvancedMaterials.Throughoutthestudies,sheactivelyparticipatedintheChemistryStudentsAssociationofNCU,attendingconferences,andorganizingscientificshowsthatpopularizedchemistryan​d​lifesciences.

Jeel Raval

JeelRavalwasborninMumbai,India.ShepursuedherbachelorofScienceinPhysicsfromRamnarainRuiaCollege.Further,JeelpursuedMasterofSicenceinPhysicsfromVITUniversity,VelloreandfinishedhermasterthesisfromTIFR,Mumbai.ShehasbeenameritscholarshipholderatVITUniversity.

Jerzy Gorecki

Job Titles:
  • Supervisor
RichardLöfflerwasborninFrankfurtamMaininGermany.In1998thewholefamilymovedtoDenmark.InDenmarkRichardwenttoagermanElementaryandHighSchoolbeforestartingtoStudyattheUniversityofSouthernDenmark(SDU)inOdense.AtSDURichardgothisB.Sc.andM.Sc.degreeinNanobioscience,workingmostlyattheFundamentalLivingTechnologies(FLinT)group,ledbyProf.SteenRasmussenandunderthesupervisionofProf.Pierre-AlainMonnard. AshmitaBosewasbornandbroughtupinthecityofKolkata,India.ShereceivedhonoursinPhysics(aspecializedphysicscourse)duringhisbachelorsandstudiedinLadyBrabourneCollege,UniversityofCalcutta.ThencarryforwardedhismasterdegreeinPhysicsatVITUniversity,VelloreTamilNadu,India.

Juan Carlos Colmenares Q.

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  • Supervisor
AyeshaKhanwasborninRawalpindi,Pakistan.ShehasdoneM.PhilinEnvironmentalSciencesfromPMASAridAgricultureUniversity,RawalpindiPakistan.ShehasawardedsilvermedalinherMaster'sdegreeprogramme.ShehasalsoreceivedViceChancellorTalentScholarshipduringherM.Phil(springsemester2011andfallsemester2011-12).

Kumar Sarang

KumarSarangwasborninSaharanpur,asmallcityinIndia.HecomesfromNewDelhi.HecompletedhisB.Sc.(Hons)Chemistryfromoneofthetopinstitute(SriVenkateswaraCollege)ofDelhiUniversityin2012andthencompletedhisMaster'sinPhysicalChemistryin2014fromJamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.Duringhismaster'shewasinvolvedinaprojectbaseduponthegreensynthesisofsilvernanoparticle's.

Piotr Garstecki

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  • Supervisor
MahsaSahebdivaniisaPhDstudentattheInstituteofPhysicalChemistryofthePolishAcademyofSciencesandDelftUniversityofTechnology.ShejoinedthemicrofluidicsresearchgroupatIChFPANledbyProf.Dr.Garstecki,wheresheisworkingonexperimentalandcomputationalprojectsinthefieldofdroplet-microfluidics. Yu-TingKaomajoredinAeronauticandAstronauticEngineeringandminoredinLifeScienceswhendoingbachelorandfollowingobtainedhermasterdegreeinbiomedicalengineeringinTaiwanwheresheborn.ShethenwonanErasmusMundusscholarshipsoshefinishedhersecondandthirdmasterdegreesinPhysicsandChemistry,respectively,inFranceandSpain. Yu-KaiLaiwasborninTaiwan.HeobtainedbachelordegreeinmechanicalengineeringatNationalTaiwanUniversity.AfterheworkingasresearchassistantinNTUforayear,hepursuedM.ScinphysicsatÉcoleNormaleSupérieurdeParis-Saclay,France.Sincethelastyearinbachelorstudy,hestartedtostudyonmicrofluidics.

Rafał Szmigielski

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  • Supervisor
KumarSarangwasborninSaharanpur,asmallcityinIndia.HecomesfromNewDelhi.HecompletedhisB.Sc.(Hons)Chemistryfromoneofthetopinstitute(SriVenkateswaraCollege)ofDelhiUniversityin2012andthencompletedhisMaster'sinPhysicalChemistryin2014fromJamiaMilliaIslamia,NewDelhi.Duringhismaster'shewasinvolvedinaprojectbaseduponthegreensynthesisofsilvernanoparticle's. FariaKhanbelongsfromLahore.AgoldmedalistinherOandAlevel(highereducation)foracademicexcellence,shejoinedtopinstituteofPakistan,NationalUniversityofScienceandTechnology,tocompleteherBS(hons)inAppliedBiosciencesin2010.ShejoinedaninternationalinternshipprogramatWorldHealthOrganization,Geneva,Switzerland,underthesupervisionofDrMoazzamAliin2013,wheresheworkedonthehealthcareinterventionsrequiredtofacilitatethenomadicpopulationaroundtheglobe.

Richard Löffler

RichardLöfflerwasborninFrankfurtamMaininGermany.In1998thewholefamilymovedtoDenmark.InDenmarkRichardwenttoagermanElementaryandHighSchoolbeforestartingtoStudyattheUniversityofSouthernDenmark(SDU)inOdense.AtSDURichardgothisB.Sc.andM.Sc.degreeinNanobioscience,workingmostlyattheFundamentalLivingTechnologies(FLinT)group,ledbyProf.SteenRasmussenandunderthesupervisionofProf.Pierre-AlainMonnard.

Robert Holyst

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  • Supervisor
AiritAgastywasborninKolkata,India.HegraduatedwithaBachelor'sdegreeinEngineeringfromtheDepartmentofMechanicalEngineeringatJadavpurUniversity,Kolkatain2012.Afterworkingattheconstructionofasteelplantforthenexttwoyears,AiritdecidedtopursuehisMaster'sinRubberTechnologyfromtheIndianInstituteofTechnologyinKharagpur,andgraduatedin2016. YingZhouwasborninChina,gotherbachelor'sdegreeandmaster'sdegreeinclinicallaboratorymedicinein2013and2016separately.Yingjoinedsoftcondensedmattergroup,whichisledbyprofessorRobertHołyst,inApril,2017.

Wojciech Gozdz

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  • Supervisor
JeelRavalwasborninMumbai,India.ShepursuedherbachelorofScienceinPhysicsfromRamnarainRuiaCollege.Further,JeelpursuedMasterofSicenceinPhysicsfromVITUniversity,VelloreandfinishedhermasterthesisfromTIFR,Mumbai.ShehasbeenameritscholarshipholderatVITUniversity. HoracioSernawasborninCartago(asmallcityinValledelCauca,Colombia),butmovedtoMedellin,thesecondcityinimportanceofColombia,wherehecompletedallhisacademictraining.HegothisB.Sc.degreeinChemicalEngineeringin2015andfinishedwithtopscoresinICFESSaberProTest,whichistheStateTestforprofessionalsinColombiaandisarequirementforgettingtheB.Sc.degree.

Włodzimierz Kutner

Job Titles:
  • Supervisor
ViknasvarriAyerduraiwasborninMalaysiaandcompletedherundergraduateinanalyticalandenvironmentalchemistryfromUMT.Then,shefurtherhermaster'sdegreeinmaterialscienceinJapan.ShewasawardedMinistryofEducation,Culture,Sports,Science,andTechnology(MEXT),Japanesescholarshiptopursueherdegree. AlcinaJohnsonSudagarcomesfromMumbai;adiversecityonthewestcoastofIndia.AftergraduatingtheBachelordegreewithdistinctioninNanotechnologyfromSRMUniversityinIndia,shesecuredanopportunitytopursuespecializationinthefieldofclayscienceunderthedistinguishedErasmusMundusMasterscholarshipprogrammeIMACS. NabilaYasmeenbelongstosmalltownofPunjab,Pakistan.Shehaddonehermaster'sinchemistryfromIslamiacollegeuniversity,PeshawarandmastersofphilosophyinphysicalchemistryfromuniversityofPeshawar,Pakistan.Duringherstudiesshehadorganizedseveralworkshopsandconferencesactingasavicepresidentsciencesociety. DusanMrdenovicwasborninSerbia,wherehegraduatedfromalllevelsofeducation.In2016,hereceivedMScdegreeinChemicalEngineeringfromTechnicalfacultyinBor,UniversityofBelgrade.In2017,hebecamePhDstudentattheInstituteofPhysicalChemistry,PolishAcademyofScienceandmemberofthegroupofmolecularfilmsresearch,ledbyprof.WlodzimierzKutner.

Ying Zhou

YingZhouwasborninChina,gotherbachelor'sdegreeandmaster'sdegreeinclinicallaboratorymedicinein2013and2016separately.Yingjoinedsoftcondensedmattergroup,whichisledbyprofessorRobertHołyst,inApril,2017.

Yu-Kai Lai

Yu-KaiLaiwasborninTaiwan.HeobtainedbachelordegreeinmechanicalengineeringatNationalTaiwanUniversity.AfterheworkingasresearchassistantinNTUforayear,hepursuedM.ScinphysicsatÉcoleNormaleSupérieurdeParis-Saclay,France.Sincethelastyearinbachelorstudy,hestartedtostudyonmicrofluidics.