Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS
Jan Paczesny
was born in Żary (Poland) in 1985. He graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) with distinction in 2009. Afterwards, he moved to Warsaw (Poland) to work with professor Robert Hołyst in Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. He obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry with honors in 2012. His doctoral research was focused on thin films of amphiphilic compounds and nanoparticles and their applications. He has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Soft Condensed Matter and Fluids at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2012. His research interests have changed towards bio-inspired functional nanomaterials. Recently, he obtained funding from National Science Centre and Ministry of Science and Higher Education for two main research pathways:
1) utilizing biomolecules and organisms for preparation of functional nanomaterials
2) design and production of novel materials for molecular biology and microbiology.
The TEAM
Since 2013 Jan Paczesny is leading "Bio-inspirded Functional Nanomaterials" unit whitin Soft Condensed Matter group (leader professor Robert Hołyst).
Photography: Tadeusz Późniak / POLITYKA
BeNeFiT is a part of Soft Condensed Matter Group.
The BIG BOSS is professor Robert Hołyst.
We are working in the Institute of Physical Chemistry,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Kinga Matuła, MSc Eng.
PhD student, supervisor professor Robert Hołyst, supporting supervisor dr Jan Paczesny.
Graduated from Rzeszów University of Technology in 2013.
Main projects:
- Cytotoxicity of nanomaterials
- Aging of organisms that reproduce by morphologically symmetric division
Main techniques:
- Microbiology lab
- Confocal microscopy
- Flow cytometry
Łukasz Richter, MSc Eng.
PhD student, supervisor professor Robert Hołyst, supporting supervisor dr Jan Paczesny.
Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology in 2014. Supervisor professor Malinowska, tutor dr Jan Paczesny.
Main projects:
- Ordering of bacteriophages in electric field for ultrafast detection of bacteria
- Cytotoxicity of nanomaterials
Main techniques:
- Confocal microscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Microbiology lab
- Surface Enhenced Raman Spectroscopy
Krzysztof Bielec
Master student in IPC, student at Jagiellonian University, Department of Physics, supervisors dr Agnieszka Skórska-Stania, tutor dr Jan Paczesny
Krzysztof works on preparation of biosensors based on bacteriophages.
Michał Gąsior
Undergraduate student at Warsaw University of Technology and trainee in Soft Condensed Matter Group at IPC PAS.
Michał works on chemical modification of surfaces for phage-based biosensors.
Members
Former members
Ewa Ramotowska, Eng.
MSc student at University of Warsaw and in The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology since 2015.
Agnieszka Sulej, MSc
Graduated from Medical University of Warsaw in 2015.
Ilona Binkiewicz, MSc Eng.
Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology in 2015.
Supervisor professor Lewiński, tutor dr Jan Paczesny.
Karolina Włodyga, MSc Eng.
Graduated from Warsaw University of Life Sciences in 2014.
Krzysztof Sozański, PhD
Graduated from Warsaw University in 2013.
Defended his PhD thesis in IPC PAS in 2015.
Postdoc at IPC PAS.
Monika Wadowska, MSc Eng.
Graduated from Warsaw University of Technology in 2012.