Principal Investigator

dr hab. inż. Róża Szweda

Róża Szweda leads the Programmable Polymers Center at Adam Mickiewicz University. Her group develops sequence-defined and stereocontrolled oligourethanes as platforms for studying how molecular information programs folding, self-assembly, materials organisation, and function.

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

Interview with Roza Szweda ERC Starting Grant 2023 beneficiary.

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New polymers with life-like functions?
Roza Szweda among Creative of Wroclaw.

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EDUCATION

• Jul 2023 Habilitation

Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

• Jan 2015 PhD in Chemistry

Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Thesis: “Polymer-peptide arrays for detection of proteolytic enzymes” in the field of polymer-peptide materials for bioapplications, defended with distinction

• Sep 2009 MSc in Chemistry

Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
Thesis: “Study of the degradation process of high molecular weight polyglycidol” in the field of polymer science

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 2024 – present

Associate Professor
Director of the Center for Programmable Polymers

Center for Advanced Materials, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 10, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
• establishing an independent research group

Jan 2020 – Dec 2023

Leader of Functional Macromolecules Team

Lukasiewicz Research Network-PORT Polish Center for Technology Development, Stabłowicka 147, 54-066 Wrocław, Poland
• creating and leading an independent research group

Apr 2019 – Dec 2019

Project Manager

Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000 Strasbourg, France
• managing of the ITN project “CReaNet” financed within MSCA Horizon 2020 programme, https://creanet.u-strasbg.fr/

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019

Project Manager

Institute Charles Sadron, The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), 23 rue du Loess, 67 034 Strasbourg, France
• managing of the ITN project “Euro-sequences” financed within MSCA Horizon 2020 programme, http://www.eurosequences.com/

Nov 2015 – Apr 2019

Post-doctoral Researcher

Institute Charles Sadron, The National Center for Scientific Research, 23 rue du Loess, 67 034 Strasbourg, France
• researcher in scientific projects in the field of sequence-controlled polymers and polymeric materials (European Research Council grant “Sequence Barcodes”)

Nov 2015 – Feb 2017

Assistant Professor

Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 34 street, 41 819 Zabrze, Poland
• supervision of PhD students, consulting of research projects, writing the articles

Apr 2017 – Apr 2019

Research Assistant

Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Curie-Sklodowskiej 34 street, 41 819 Zabrze, Poland
• researcher in 3 scientific projects financed by EU or Polish government in the field of polymer science, polymer-peptide conjugates, and (bio)materials
• teaching assistant of Bachelor’s course of “Physical Chemistry”