Adam Proń got his PhD in chemistry in 1980 from University of Pennsylvania (supervisor Alan G. MacDiarmid). Then he moved to Warsaw University of Technology where he became full professor in 1993. In the period of 1998 – 2012 he worked at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Grenoble. In 2012 he retired from this institution in 2012 and returned to Warsaw University of Technology.