ABOUT ME
I'm a researcher working in Molecular Photophysics Group.
In my research, I'm using computational chemistry methods to predict photophysical properties of relatively small aromatic molecules. Even though I'm a theoretician, I'm eagerly cooperating with experimentalists to confront theoretical predictions with experimental findings. I focus on mechanistic aspects of the photophysical and photochemical processes on the molecular level. My hot topic is control of the processes by exerting the substituent effect in molecules. I am interested in modeling the molecular photoswitches built on photochromic molecules.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Photphysics of molecules
"Theoretical Optimization of Properties of the Molecular Proton Switch Steered by Optical or Electrical Field Stimuli"
EDUCATION
2005 - 2019
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
habilitation in Physics.
Modeling hemocyanine enzyme site
"Ab initio study of the O2 binding in dicopper complexes"
2004 - 2005
Univeristy of Stuttgart, Chemistry Dpt.
Post-dock position in Joahim Werner's Group
Weak Interecations in Dimers
"Interactions of transition metal atoms with He"
2003 - 2004
Oakland University, Chemistry Dpt.
Post-dock Position in Małgorzata Szczęśniak's Group
Three-Body Interactions in Water Clusters
"The Structure and InfraRed Spectra of Weakly Bound Molecular Clusters"
Weak intermolecular interaction
"The effect of electron detachment on the structure and properties of the chlorine-acetonitrile anionic complex"
1998 - 2003
Univeristy of Warsaw, Chemistry Dpt.
PhD in Chemistry,
Supervisor: Prof. Joanna Sadlej
2001 - 2001
Mississipy State Univeristy, Chemistry Dpt.
pred-doc position in Jerzy Leszczyński's Group