Organizing Committee Member

Tomasz Puzyn

Head of the Laboratory of Environmental Chemometrics

University of Gdansk

Poland

Biography

Professor Puzyn is the author of over 70 scientific articles in leading journals (eg. Nature Nanotechnology). His work has been cited more than 1,000 times and the Hirsch index is 21. Professor Puzyn is an active member of the international emvironment involved in the issues of chemical safety and nanotechnology: as the leader of two international projects thanks to the EU 7th Framework Programme (NanoBRIDGES and NanoPUZZLES), initiatives under the European Nanosafety Cluster and as a member of the Steering Committee of the MODENA Action, implemented within the framework of COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology. He is also the winner of many prestigious national and international awards, i.e.: individual scholarship of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of Science, grants of the Foundation for Polish Science (programmes: START, HOMING and FOCUS), a scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education holder and the winner of the Polish Prime Minister Prize for the best habilitation thesis in 2012.

Research Area

Computational methods for designing nanomaterials