Adam Kolodziej

I am a PhD student working on novel drug filtration systems and pathogen electrochemical sensors, under the supervision of Dr Para Rodriguez and Paco. I graduated from the Poznan University of Technology (Poland) in Chemical Technology in 2012 (BEng) and 2014 (MEng) with a Master Thesis on the application of biopolymers in supercapacitors.  Within this time, I undertook summer placements at the University of Edinburgh (2013), working with Dr Stephen P Thomas, and the University of Bath (2014), working with Prof Frank Marken. I also did one short research stay in the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland (2014) working with Prof. Dr. Petr Novák. After graduation I joined the group of Professor Elzbieta Frackowiak at Poznan, to work as a a scientific assistant. During this time, I did another short research stay in the group of Dr. Martin Jonsson-Niedziolka. In my spare time, I enjoy travelling and listening to good music. My biggest passion outside of chemistry is the world of reptiles.

• Education:
  • Poznan University of Technology (PUT)
    • BEng, Chemical Technology, 2009-2013
    • MEng, Chemical Technology, 2013-2014
• Research career:
  • PUT, Poland. Research student involved in Polish-Swiss Research Programme, 2013 – 2014.
  • University of Edinburgh, UK. Summer project student in the group of Dr. Stephen Thomas, 2013.
  • University of Bath, UK. Summer project student in the group of Prof Frank Marken, 2014.
  • Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland. Short research stay in the group of Prof. Dr. Petr Novák, 2014.
  • PUT, Poland. Scientific assistant in the group of Professor Elzbieta Frackowiak, 2014 – 2015.
  • Polish Academy of Science, Poland. Short research stay in the group of Dr. Martin Jonsson-Niedziolka, 2015.
  • University of Bath, UK. Visiting student in the group of  Prof Frank Marken, 2015.

Scientific contributions

Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals

1. Kolodziej, A., Figueiredo, M., Koper, M., Fernandez-Trillo, F. & Rodriguez, P. Phosphate-mediated electrochemical adsorption of cisplatin on gold electrodes. Electrochimica Acta 248, 409–415 (2017).
2. Kolodziej, A., Fernandez-Trillo, F. & Rodriguez, P. Determining the parameters governing the electrochemical stability of thiols and disulfides self-assembled monolayer on gold electrodes in physiological medium. J Electroanal Chem (2017). doi:10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.07.039
3. Mark D. Greenhalgh, Adam Kolodziej, Fern Sinclair, Stephen P. Thomas, Iron-Catalyzed Hydromagnesiation: Synthesis and Characterization of Benzylic Grignard Reagent Intermediate and Application in the Synthesis of Ibuprofen, Organometallics, 2014, 33 (20), 5811–5819
4. Adam Kolodziej, Sunyhik D. Ahn, Mariolino Carta, Richard Malpass-Evans, Neil B. McKeown, Robert S.L. Chapman, Steven D. Bull, Frank Marken, Electrocatalytic Carbohydrate Oxidation with 4-Benzoyloxy-TEMPO Heterogenised in a Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity, Electrochim. Acta, 2015, 160 195–201
5. Sunyhik D. Ahn, Adam Kolodziej, Mariolino Carta, Richard Malpass-Evans, Neil B. McKeown, Antoine Buchard, Steven D. Bull, Frank Marken, Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity Induces Host-Guest Substrate Selectivity in Heterogeneous 4-Benzoyloxy-TEMPO-Catalysed Alcohol Oxidations, 2015, Electrocatalysis, DOI: 10.1007/s12678-015-0284-8
6. Adam Kolodziej, Krzysztof Fic, Elzbieta Frackowiak, Towards sustainable power sources: chitin-bound carbon electrodes for electrochemical capacitors, 2015, J. Mat. Chem. A, DOI: 10.1039/C5TA06750B