Professor of Chemistry at Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and Institute of Polymer and Carbon Materials in Zabrze (Poland). He currently is Director of Centre of Organic and Nanohybride Electronics. 1982: Ph.D. in Chemistry at Silesian University of Technology, and second one in 1987 at Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France). 1989: Research Fellow: Oxford University, (GB), 1992: 1993; Invited Professor: l’Université de Nantes, (France) 1994-96, CTE – Departement de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matiere Condese, Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble, (France) 1998, Invited Professor: l’Ecole Normale Superieur de Cachan, (France) 2000. Visiting Professor: Tohoku University, Japan, 2002, Member of Polish Chemical Society 1976 – to date, Director of Institute of Coal Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences, 2000 – 2005, Visiting Professor: Faculty of Chemistry, Wollongong University Australia 20016, Corresponding Member of Polish Academy of Science 2021 – to date, Member of International Society of Electrochemistry 2005 – to date. More than 260 research papers which received over 11550 citations (H–index of 50). Award of Golden Cross, 1995; Award of the Polish Chemical Society, 1991; Award of the Polish Foundation for Science, 1992; Scientific Award of Silesian Wojewodship, 2017; Polymer Award of International Association of Advanced Materials, 2018.
Prof. MIECZYSŁAW ŁAPKOWSKI
Silesian University of Technology, Poland