31/01/2023
Environmental Chemistry - Joanna Augustynowicz
Joanna Augustynowicz was employed as an associate professor in the Department of Botany, Physiology and Plant Protection, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: plant physiology/biochemistry; environmental chemistry; ecotoxicology; environmental biotechnology; phytoremediation of water polluted by metallic elements
Medicinal Chemistry - Sylwia Kędracka-Krok
Sylwia Kedracka-Krok is employed as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Biochemistry Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) where she supervises a research group dealing with proteomic studies in neurobiology.
She developed the Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology and in Małopolska Centre of Biochemistry JU, bringing new and advanced tools to the field of neuroscience and a wide range of other molecular and cellular topics.
Her research interests include understanding biochemical processes important in the etiopathogenesis of depression and molecular mechanisms of action of antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs using proteomic, microscopic, and functional studies.
Her research focuses on (i) characterizing the effects of selected antipsychotic drugs on the entire proteome and nuclear subproteome of rat brain tissue and cultures of human neuronal and glial cells (ii) studying the effects of silencing selected genes on the proteome of rat brain tissue (iii) studying the effects of silencing selected genes on nervous system cell phenotype, proteome, function, and response to drug treatment (iii) studying the role of human T cell subpopulations in depression.
Analytical Chemistry – Zsolt Revay
Between 1988 and 2010 Zsolt Revay worked at the Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and was responsible for nuclear analytics, mainly for prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA).
After moving to Germany in 2011, took over the PGAA group at the Garching Research Reactor. From 2013, he also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry.
Science and industry – Monika Motak
Prof. Monika Motak is the Dean of the Faculty of Energy and Fuels at the AGH – University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Cracow), Poland
She is also the Head of the Group for Catalytic and Adsorption Processes in Energy and Environmental Protection at the Faculty of Energy and Fuels.
Her research focusses on the development of innovative and original catalytic materials for environmental and climate protection applications.
Special interest is paid on the use of nano-oxide materials based on nickel modified hydrotalcite as catalysts for dry reforming of methane (DRM), tri-reforming and methanation, and the optimization of the methods of preparation of active and selective catalysts for the DeNOx process obtained by the intercalation of natural montmorillonite with aluminium oxide and modification with carbon layer, or hydrotalcites containing incorporated transition metals operating at low temperature range.
Prof. Monika Motak is a member of the Polish Club of Catalysis, the Polish Chemical Society.