
Anna Szemik-Hojniak
Professor
University of Wroclaw
Poland
Biography
Anna Szemik-Hojniak has completed her PhD in Radiochemistry from the University of Wroclaw and postdoctoral studies in Physical Chemistry and Radiochemistry from Solvay Fundation (Belgium), KULeuven (Belgium) and Centre of Nuclear Researches (Strasburg, France). She occupies with Organic Molecular Photophysics , published more than 45 papers and serves as a reviewer in scientific journals. In the years (2002-2011) she served as the INWES Board director (2002-2011) for INWES corporation- the operational partner of UNESCO. In 2007, at the University of Wroclaw, (Poland), she organized international workshop “Strategies for the Highly Skilled Global Workforceâ€. In 2011, Dr Szemik was awarded with Distinguished Service Award. Presently she is INWES-ERI General Secretary and the Board Director (headquarters-Ottawa, Canada).In 2014 and 2015, she organized Mini Symposium “Photophysics of Electron and Proton Transfer†in the framework of ICCMSE- 2014 conference, in Athens (Greece) and presented the Keynote lecture on “Behavior of styryl derivatives under the light irradiation†during 4th-Annual European Pharma Congress-2015 in Valencia (Spain).
Research Interest
Her Research interest is in Time-Resolved Emission Spectroscopy (Excited State Electron and Proton Transfer) of organic compounds for high - tech and Pharmaceutical Industry.