People
Prof. Robert Szoszkiewicz
Main inventor of the Thermochemical Nanolithography (TCNL) – a technique where a hot AFM cantilever provokes chemical reaction at a surface with lateral resolution down to nanometers. Main research experience in nanomechanics of single protein molecules as well as physico-chemical characterization of arbitrary surfaces mainly via atomic force microscopy.
Currently, strives to understand locally mechanisms of selected reactions onto surfaces of 2D materials (i.e., oxidation and selected catalytic reactions). In addition, develops methods of learning about structural changes within single biological molecules from changes of their nanomechanical properties.
PhD from EPFL, Switzerland; post-docs at Georgia Tech and Columbia Univ. USA; Assist. Prof. and later tenured Assoc. Prof. at Kansas State Univ., USA; From 2017 Assoc. Prof. and later full Prof. of Chemistry at University of Warsaw, Poland; In addition, from 2021 visiting professor at the University of Kansas, USA (several short term visits).
Saeed Sovizi, PhD Student
Saeed Sovizi did his bachelor's and master's studies in the field of materials science and engineering at Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran. His master's project was on the synthesis of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) by chemical vapor deposition methods. He joined the Szoszlab group in 2020 as a PhD student in physical chemistry. Currently, His focus is on Heat-induced Reactions in TMDs at global and local (by Thermochemical Nanolithography) scales.
Adam Świątek, PhD Student
Adam Świątek worked with computer simulations of molecular liquids for his bachelor's and master's projects. His BSc topic was an application of (elementary) graph theory to hydrogen bonding networks in mixtures of acetone and methanol, and his MSc topic was the creation of a non-polarizable model of carbon-group tetrachlorides (CCl4, SiCl4, ...) for use with molecular dynamics.
He is currently doing research on a Ph.D. project in the Szoszlab, since 2022. This project is on characterizing protein structure using mechanical information which can be gained through Atomic Force Microscope methods. The approach combines simulation and experiment.
Enjoys overanalyzing popular art.
Alicja Ciesielska, Amelia Szwedo, Maksymilian Ruta, Piotr Zaręba
BSc Students
Former members, who contributed to published research:
Aleksandra Wosztyl (MSc 2021), Stanisław Sokołowski (MSc 2021), Karolina Rotuska (MSc 2021), Aneta Mierzwa (BSc 2020), Krystian Lewkowicz (BSc 2019), Ugonna Ukegbu (MSc 2018).