Jakub Zdarta is a Professor at the Poznan University of Technology. He studied General Chemistry (since 2005) at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Dipl. 2010) and Chemical Technology at the Poznan University of Technology (Dipl. 2012) and defended his PhD diploma in Chemical Technology in 2017. His career in materials science and biotechnology started in 2008, under the supervision of Prof. Teofil Jesionowski. He continued it with a one-year post-doc at the Technical University of Denmark, under the mentoring of Prof. Anne S. Meyer, a renowned specialist in enzymology. After that, he returned to the Poznań University of Technology, where he has held a professorial position since 2022. He continues his research in enzyme immobilization and application, leading grants from the Polish National Science Centre (Preludium, Sonata, Sonata Bis) and cooperating with scientists in Denmark (Technical University of Denmark), Australia (University of Technology Sydney), India (IIT Bilai), United States (MIT) and Spain (University of Almeria).
For his outstanding scientific achievements, he got the following awards: Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding Young Scientists in 2019, Scientific Award of the 4th Division of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2022, Award of the Prime Minister in 2022 for scientific achievements constituting the basis for conferring the degree of habilitated doctor and Award of the Ministry of Higher Education and Science in 2023 for outstanding scientific achievements.
Chair of the organising committee of the Green Technology for Sustainable Environment 2024 (GTSE24) and Biotransformations for Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry 2026 conferences, co-editor in Environmental Technology and Innovation journal, Guest Editor in Special Issues for several JCR journals, author of 2 books, over 15 book chapters and more than 130 scientific articles.
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