Agata Zdarta graduated in Biotechnology from Poznan University of Life Sciences (2013) and received her PhD in Chemistry in 2020 from the Poznan University of Technology. Leader and Principal Investigator of Preludium and Sonata projects (Polish National Science Centre, NCN), and investigator in several Opus projects (NCN). She works as an Assistant professor at the Poznan University of Technology in Prof. Ewa Kaczorek’s research group. She carried out her post-doc research at the Technical University of Denmark, under the supervision of Dr. Nanna B. Harmann in microplastic quantification (2021) within the Iwanowska program (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange). Currently, her scientific interest focuses on microplastic quantification in environmental samples, with a special focus on sample preparation procedures. She is a leader and principal investigator in a Sonata-funded project (NCN) concerning the application of biomembranes in microplastic sample preparation.
Laureate of the START scholarship (Foundation for Polish Science, 2021) and the Scholarship of the Polish Minister of Science for Outstanding Young Scientists (2024). Member of the organising committee of the Green Technology for Sustainable Environment 2024 (GTSE24), Biotransformations for Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry 2026 international conferences, and XI Congress of Chemical Technology (XIKTCh), Guest Editor for international scientific journals, author of over 30 scientific papers in JCR journals.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2835-5447