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Vice-Rector for Research

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Kuśtrowski

Prof. dr hab. Piotr Kuśtrowski

Date of birth
5 December 1971, Łańcut
Education

Full-time studies in Chemistry, JU Faculty of Chemistry – 1990-1995

Academic degrees

MSc in Chemistry – 1995, JU
PhD in Chemial Sciences – 2000, JU
Habilitated Doctor of Chemical Sciences – 2007, JU
Professor of Chemical Sciences – 2015, JU

Employment

Assistant at the JU Faculty of Chemistry – 1999-2001
Adjunct Academic at the JU Faculty of Chemistry – 2001-2011
Associate Professor at the JU Faculty of Chemistry – 2011-2019
Full Professor at the JU Faculty of Chemistry – since 2019

Institutional appointments

2009-2012    coordinator of the ATOMIN project funded from the Innovative Economy Operational Programme
2009-2015    head of the project run by 4 JU faculties within the framework of the Inrastructure and Environment Operational Programme
2012-2016    JU Faculty of Chemistry Dean’s Proxy for Research Infrastructure
2012-2016    head of the Atomic Scale Systems Research Centre - Atomin Chemia
2012-2016    member of the Curriculum Committee for the Environmental Protection programme
2012-2017    head of the Deprtment of Chemical Technology, JU
2016-2020    Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, JU
2016-2020    head of the Council of the Campus for the 600th Anniversary of the JU Revival
2016-2020    JU Senate member, member of the Permanent Senate Committee for Finance and Property and the  Permanent Senate Committee for University Development
2018-2019    head of the Finance Commitee working on the new JU Statute
since 2008    head of the Committee for Organic Technology
since 2010    head of the Laboratory of ESCA Photoelectron Spectroscopy
since 2015    head of the Supervisory Committee of the CITTRU Centre for Technology Transfer
since 2015    head of the Working Group for Smart Specialisations in Małopolska region in the field of Chemistry at the Marshal’s Office of Małopolskie Voivodeship
since 2016    member of the International Association of Catalysis Societies Council
since 2017    member of the Natural Sciences Education Centre Council
since 2018    member of the Editorial Committee of Polimery journal
since 2019    member of the Council of the JU Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences
since 2020    member of Editorial Board of Catalysts journal
since 2020    head of the Steering Committee of the SciMat research field wihtin the framework of the Excellence Initiative - Research University

Membership in scientific associations

Polish Chemical Society – since 2006
Polish Catalysis Club – since 2006

Foreign internships and research stays
Foreign internships at Leipzig University, Germany (11 months) and the University of Antwerp, Belgium (5 months). Research stays at the University of Alicante, Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, University of Bari and the Technical University of Ostrava.
Research interests

Synthesis and properties of materials with controlled porous structure, including zeolites, some clay materials, as well as mesoporous silica and carbon sieves. Developing modern heterogenous catalysers based on polymeric templates. Effective water and air purification technologies based on catalysis-, photocatalysis- and adsorption-related phenomena. Research into mechanisms of catalytic processes of selective oxidation of carbohydrates. Characterisation of functional materials’ surfaces using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Publications and other achievements

Author of over 200 papers published published in research journals included in the Master Journal List, cited about 3.8 thousand Times, Hirsch index: 36. He has obtained 2 patents and filed another 3 patents, has delivered over 500 conference presentations, and has organised 2 huge scientific conferences: the Congress of Chemical Technology in 2012 (as the deputy head of the organising committee) and the 2018 Congress of the Polish Chemical Society (as the head of the scientific committee), attended by oboout 800 participants. He has been frequently invited to review promotion dossiers of doctoral and postdoctoral candidates and to assess grant applications (submitted to the National Science Centre as well as Czech and Belgian grant agencies). He has reviewed about 400 publications for several dozen editors of chemisty journals. He has been the supervisor of 8 PhD and 62 MSc theses and has run over 50 reaserch projects (mostly as project leader). Cooperation with industry has always been an important part of his research work. 

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