Host Institution
The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC) is a leading research entity localized in Warsaw, Poland (capital city). IPC has the highest research excellence category among research units in Poland (A+), which places us in top 5% of the best research units. 2014, the European Commission granted to IPC the “HR Excellence in Research” award for striving for improvement of working conditions for researchers, strengthening recruitment procedure (based on open, merit and transparent principles) and development of professional educational offer for researchers.
At IPC there are 29 research teams dealing with broadly understood chemistry, that carry out interdisciplinary research in chemistry inspired by biology/ medicine, pharmacy & physics. The leaders of our research groups are very independent, and act as managers of their own units.
IPC has modern equipment, and extensive experimental & application experience. The research equipment database is publicly available at IPC website.
Beside excellent research performance, IPC is also dedicated to commercialization. We carry out an initiative “IPC for the companies” offering consultancy, measurement services and patents for sale. We have a few spin-off and spin-out companies originated from our research. They act in the sectors of medical diagnostics (Curiosity Diagnosics, Scope Fluidics), and equipment for industry (Fluence). We have also found a way to support very niche commercial initiatives of our researchers co-financing first stages of development of their inventions (SERSitive, Siliquan).
IPC hosted ERC grant and has a chair funded by the European Commission under the prestigious programme “ERA Chairs” (H2020) (CREATE project). Apart from the PD2PI project we also implement another project acknowledged by the European Commission under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – NaMeS.
Our studies & research groups
Candidates applying to PD2PI project should start from choosing a research group from IPC conducting research in the field that may interest them. Subsequently, each candidate should select a mentor from this group who may support his/her project. We suggest to visit web pages of research groups listed below, select a mentor (it could be head of the group or other group member) and contact them in order to receive the supporting letter.
The supporting letter from IPC mentor is a prerequisite for your application to the programme.
| Name of the research group | PI | Contact to PI | Recommended Partner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr hab. Agnieszka Kamińska | akaminska@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Dr Jan Paczesny | jpaczesny@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski | mwojtkowski@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Dr hab. inż. Joanna Niedziółka-Jönsson | jniedziolka@ichf.edu.pl | Sabine Szunerits | |
| Dr hab. Jacek Gregorowicz | jgregorowicz@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| (6) Nanoelectrochemistry group | Dr hab. Wojciech Nogala | wnogala@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| Dr hab. Volodymyr Sashuk | vsashuk@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Dr hab. Gonzalo Angulo | gangulo@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Prof. dr hab. inż. Janusz Lewiński | jlewinski@ichf.edu.pl | Michael Graetzel | |
| Prof. dr. hab. Robert Hołyst | rholyst@ichf.edu.pl | Wilhelm Huck | |
| Prof. dr hab. Piotr Garstecki | pgarstecki@ichf.edu.pl | David Wareham Lars David Renner | |
| Dr hab. Marcin Fiałkowski | mfialkowski@ichf.edu.pl | Horst Weller | |
| Dr hab. Wojciech Góźdź | wgozdz@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Dr hab. Martin Jönsson-Niedziółka | mjonsson@ichf.edu.pl | Micheál Scanlon | |
| (16) Dynamics of nanocrystal structure induced by surface chemistry | Dr hab. Zbigniew Kaszkur | zkaszkur@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| Dr hab. Rafał Szmigielski | rszmigielski@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Dr Piyush Sindhu Sharma | psharma@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| (19) Soft Granular Matter and Tissue Engineering | Dr Jan Guzowski | jguzowski@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| (20) Cooperative catalysis | Dr hab. Adam Kubas | akubas@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| (21) Spectroscopic and microscopic (STM/AFM) studies of intermolecular interactions | Dr hab. Robert Nowakowski | rnowakowski@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| (22) Charge transfer in biological systems and at the interfaces | Dr Piotr Zarzycki | pzarzycki@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| (23) Modified electrodes for potential application in sensors and cells | Prof. dr hab. Marcin Opałło | mopallo@ichf.edu.pl | Hubert Girault, |
| Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Górecki | jgorecki@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| Prof. dr hab. Robert Kołos | rkolos@ichf.edu.pl | Claudine Crépin | |
| Dr hab. Yuriy Stepanenko | stepanenko@ichf.edu.pl | Matthias Kling | |
| (28) Catalysis for sustainable energy production and environmental protection | Dr hab. Juan Carlos Colmenares | jcarloscolmenares@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| Prof. dr hab. Jacek Waluk | jwaluk@ichf.edu.pl | - | |
| (30) Nuclear Hyperpolarization of Molecular Systems and Nanomaterials | Dr Tomasz Ratajczyk | tratajczyk@ichf.edu.pl | - |
| Dr Anna Ochab – Marcinek
| aochab@ichf.edu.pl | -
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