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e-mail: s.zapotoczny@uj.edu.pl
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Szczepan Zapotoczny - Nanoengineering of Functional Polymeric Materials Group
Szczepan Zapotoczny, Professor
Scientific Activities
- nanostructured polymeric materials for photochemical and biomedical applications;
- polymer brushes as advanced functional platforms;
- polymer micro- and nanocapsules for drug delivery and nanoreactors;
- hybrid functional nanomaterials (magnetic plasmonic, conductive, etc.),
- advanced applications of scanning probe microscopy (nanoIR, conductive AFM, KPFM).
Education and work:
- II 2012 – now Professor at Jagiellonian University (JU), Faculty of Chemistry, Krakow, PL.
- Head of the Research Group: Nanotechnology of Polymers and Biomaterials
- Head of the Research Team: Nanoengineering of Functional Polymeric Materials
- VII 2009 – II 2012 Associate Professor (after habilitation), JU, Faculty of Chemistry.
- Head of the Research Team: Nanoengineering of Functional Polymeric Materials
- II 2002 - VI 2009 Assistant Professor (Adiunkt), JU, Faculty of Chemistry.
- VII 2005 - VII 2006 Visiting Scientist, MSCA Fellowship, University of Twente, Materials Science and Technology of Polymers (prof. Julius G. Vancso), Enschede, The Netherlands.
- XI 2001 - II 2002 Assistant, JU, Faculty of Chemistry.
- XI 1999 - XI 2001 Postdoc stage at University of Twente, Materials Science and Technology of Polymers, Enschede, NL.
- X 1995 - IX 1999 PhD. in chemistry, with distinction, JU, Faculty of Chemistry; title of the thesis: “Novel Polymeric Photosensitizers” (supervisor prof. Maria Nowakowska)
- >190 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (Hirsh index H=40, Google Scholar)
- >10 patents (Poland and worldwide)
- 5 chapters in scientific books and 3 non-academic books (chemical dictionary, encyclopedia)
- 4 commercializations (sold or licenced patents) – (1) polymer nanocapsules as drug-delivery systems, (2) magnetic nanocapsules, (3) antibacterial additives based on nAg, (4) magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications)
- 100 conference presentations (>30 invited or keynote lectures)
- Medal ‘For the contribution to inventiveness’ awarded by the Prime Minister of Poland, 2022.
- Individual Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding scientific achivements, 2016.
- 1st prize in national competition “Focus Lenses” in category „medical innovations” for hybrid antymicrobial material containing silver nanoparticles, 2015.
- Rector’s Group Awards for the scientific achievements in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2008, 2004, 2002, Jagiellonian University (JU), Krakow, Poland.
- Medal of the National Education Commission, 2013.
- Group Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the publications on polymeric and hybrid micro- and nanostructures, 2011.
- Physical chemistry
- Macromolecular science
- Microscopisc methods
- Polymer-based biomaterials