Ania has been associated with the group since 2013, when she started her laboratory practice as a young student of Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences under direct supervision of Karol Wolski and substantive care of prof. Szczepan Zapotoczny. She was devoted to synthesis and characterization of conjugated polymer brushes based on polythiophene. These early experiences resulted in defense of bachelor thesis entitled Polymer brushes with conjugated chains, which was awarded within prestigious Golden Medal of Chemistry competition. Then, she decided to broaden her knowledge in this scientific field, working on her master project Ladder-like polythiophene-based polymer brushes grafted from the surface. In 2016, encouraged by prof. Zapotoczny, she tried to write her first proposal Donor-acceptor polymer brushes within the Diamond Grant program and then her new adventure had been started. The completion of the grant’s assumptions, that requiring significantly deeper insight into theoretical quantum calculations, as well as organic chemistry, let her defend with distinction her doctoral thesis Conductive, donor-acceptor polymer brushes. 

The possibility of travel, is definitely one of the favorite parts of scientific life for Ania. That is why in 2021 she applied for ETIUDA 8 scholarship, which let her participate in 6 months scholarship at EPFL, when she was engaged with investigation on dye-sensitized solar cells within the prof. Grätzel group. Moreover, she took part in 17 conferences and from 4 of them she came back with the award for the best presentation. Surprisingly, during the conference in Bordeaux in 2022 she met prof. Antoine Buchard and few months later she started her new role as Postdoctoral Research Associate and Core Technology Translator at University of Bath under his supervision. As a member of Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies she was focused on developing sustainable resins and sugar-based polymers.

As of today, all Ania’s scientific efforts has been collected in 7 publications with 1 patent application and she come back to our group as a part of project realized within Virtual Research Institute focused on Aptamer-Based Diagnosis of Endothelium in Vasculooncology (ADEVASCO).

In her free time, Ania loves cooking, baking and what’s the most important tasting. She reads enormous amount of criminal stories and she is climbing via Ferrata trails as a companion of her husband.