Prof. Plonska-Brzezinska CV

Prof. Dr. Habil. Marta Eliza Plonska-Brzezinska

Head of Organic Chemistry

Medical University of Bialystok (MUB),

Faculty of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry and Division of Medical Education in English

Mickiewicza 2A, 15-222 Bialystok, Poland

E-mail: marta.plonska-brzezinska@umb.edu.pl; Phone: +48 85 748 5687

Gender: Female

Nationality: Polish

email: marta.plonska-brzezinska@umb.edu.pl

ORCID: 0000-0002-0538-6059; Research ID: M-3602-2013

Marta E. Plonska-Brzezinska received her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Bialystok (2005). After a Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of California, Davis, working with Prof. Alan Balch and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Clemson, working with Prof. Luis Echegoyen, she has come back to her Alma Mater. Currently, she is working at the Medical University of Bialystok since August 2018, as a Head of Organic Chemistry Department. Since 2021 she has been a Full professor. Marta maintains active research collaborations with US, Ukraine, Spain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, and Poland researchers. She holds a very active research program interested in carbon nanostructures, fullerene electrochemistry, and materials chemistry, focusing on porous structures, nanocomposites, and their applications in electrochemistry, catalysis and biomedical fields. She has published around 90 research articles. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (Habilitation Award, 2015) and the Polish Academy of Sciences (Branch Bialystok & Olsztyn, 2018) awarded her for her scientific work.

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2021 Full Profesor, Chemistry
2014 Habilitation in Chemistry; Faculty of Chemistry, Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland; Title: Preparation and studies of physico-chemical properties of materials containing “small” carbon nano-onions
2005 Ph.D. in Chemistry; Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, Poland; Specialization: Electrochemistry
1999 M.Sc. in Chemistry; Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, Poland
1998 B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering; Department of Environmental Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology , Poland

WORK EXPERIENCE

2021 – present Full Professor, Medical University of Bialystok, Head of Department of Organic Chemistry, Poland
2018 – 2021 Adjunct of Medical University of Bialystok, Faculty of Pharmacy, Head of Department of Organic Chemistry, Poland
2016 – 2018 Adjunct of University of Bialystok, Faculty of Chemistry, Poland
2007 – 2015 Assistant and Adjunct, Institute of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, Poland
2006 – 2007 Post-doctoral fellowship in professor Luis Echegoyen group, Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, South Carolina, Clemson, USA

Institutional Responsibilities

2018 – present Head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, Medical University of Bialystok
2018 – present Member of the Faculty Committee, Medical University of Bialystok
2016 – 2018 Member of Disciplinary Committee for Academic Teachers of University of Bialystok
2016 – 2018 Member of Didactic Commission of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok
2009 – 2018 Member of the Faculty Committee, University of Bialystok
2012 – 2016 Member of Evaluation Committee of Employees of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok
2009 – 2014 Member of a Committee of the Education Quality of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok

Research stays at home and abroad

2017, 2018 2 weeks Visiting Professor, Erasmus+, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
2013, 6 weeks Visiting Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
2010, 4 weeks Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
2010, 2 weeks Research Associate, University of Erlängen-Nürenmberg, Germany
2006 – 2007 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Clemson University, USA

HONORS & AWARDS

PROFESSIONAL FUNDING

NCN, OPUS, UMO-2023/49/B/ST5/02403 – Medical University of Bialystok, “Data-driven materials design: Artificial Intelligence as a tool supporting the synthesis of nanocomposites with hierarchical porosity for electrocatalytic applications”. 4 – years project, 06/2024 – present. Principal Investigator.

NCN, OPUS, UMO-2019/35/B/ST5/00572 – Medical University of Bialystok, “Carbon electrocatalysts with structural defects: preparation, characterization and study of structure-catalytic activity relationships.” 4 – years project, 06/2020 – present. Principal Investigator.

NCN, OPUS, UMO-2017/25/B/ST5/01414 – Medical University of Bialystok, “Synthesis of porous nanocomposites, their physicochemical properties and application in electrochemistry”. 3 – years project, 01/2018 – 08/2021. Principal Investigator.

NCN, SONATA BIS, UMO-2012/05/E/ST5/03800 –  University of Bialystok, “Carbon nano-onions as a new platform for charge storage devices and photovoltaic systems – synthesis and characterization of physico-chemical properties”. 5 – years project, 01/2013- 01/2019. Principal Investigator

NCN, OPUS, UMO-2011/01/B/ST5/06051 –  University of Bialystok, “Functionalization of small carbon nano-onions polyphenolic compounds and their potential application in colagene/ellastin biosensor”. 3 – years project, 12/2011- 12/2014. Principal Investigator

Homing Plus – Foundation of Polish Science, University of Bialystok, “Noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotube by cooperative networks of DNA bases”,05/2011-05/2013.

KBN, N N204 111535.  University of Bialystok, “Application of small carbon nano-onions in biosensing”, 2.5 – years project, 08/2008- 02/2011. Principal Investigator

KBN, 4 T09A 057. University of Bialystok, “Electrodes modified with bipirydyl complexes of transition metals”. 2-years project, 2003-2005.

KBN 3 T09A 046 26.  University of Bialystok, “Formation and properties of co-polimers of fullero(C₆₀)pyrrolidyne with covalently attached ferrocenyl group and transition metal complexes”, 2-years project, 2004-2006.

KBN, 3 T09A182 19.  University of Bialystok, “New systems for study of electrochemical properties of fullerenes”, 2-years project, 2000-2002.

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

2023, November/December Chair of Echegoyen International Symposium on Nanomaterials for Energy, SIPS 2023, Panama, https://www.flogen.org/sips2023/
2023, 2021, 2017 Member of International Scientific Committee ICSP&AM 8/ICSP&AM 7/ICSP&AM 5/ Tbilisi, Georgia
2022, 2020, 2018, 2016 Member of International Scientific Committee /APGIP-11/APGIP-10/APGIP-9/APGIP-8 Lviv, Ukraine
2014, September Member of Organizing Committee (OC)/National Conference “BioNanoTechno”/Bialystok, Poland
2014, July Member of OC/Summer School “Biocrystallography for the high-throughput era”/Bialystok, Poland
2014, July Chairwoman of OC/Summer School “Organic Photovoltaics – from molecules to solar cells”/Bialystok, Poland
2012, March Chairwoman of OC/2 National Conferences: “The BioNanoTechno Synthesis and Analysis Centre at the University of Bialystok” and “Trends in BioNanoTechno”/Bialystok, Poland

Participation in European Programme

(1) POPW.01.03.00-20-004/11-00: “Towards Applicability – Providing Additional Equipment for the BioNanoTechno Synthesis and Analysis Centre at the University of Bialystok”, co-funded by the EU within the framework of OPDEP, Priority: I ‘Modern Economy’, Measure: I.3. ‘Supporting innovativeness’, 02/11/2011-30/09/2014; Project Manager Assistant
(2) UDA-POKL.03.03.04-00-160/09-00: “Little Archimedes”, co-funded by the EU within the framework of HCOP, Sub-measure 3.3.4. Modernization of education content and methods, 08/11/2010-31/08/2013, Scientific consultant
(3) POPW.01.03.00-20-034/09-00: „Establishment of the BioNanoTechno Synthesis and Analysis Centre at the University of Bialystok”; co-funded by the EU within the framework of within the framework of OPDEP, Priority: I ‘Modern Economy’, Measure: I.3. ‘Supporting innovativeness’, 01/09/2009 – 30/06/2012, Project Manager Assistant

Scientific Supervisor

2010 – present 7 Postdocs/7 Ph.D./15 Master Students
I was the scientific supervisor of the three research projects carried out by young research scientists: Dr. Elżbieta Regulska ETIUDA 2014/12/T/ST5/00118; Dr. Piotr Olejnik FUGA 2016/20/S/ST5/00371; Dr. Diana Bobrowska PRELUDIUM 2017/27/N/ST5/02888.