About me

I am a post-doc at prof. Fernanda Duarte group, where I work on understaning self-assembly and catalysis of coordination complexes.

Before starting this position, I worked on my Ph.D. in the Advance Soft Matter group at TU Delft under the supervision of prof. Jan van Esch (Advance Soft Matter (ASM) group) and dr. Alex de Vries (molecular dynamics (MD) group at the University of Groningen). My Ph.D. thesis is entitled “Molecular modeling of supramolecular structures.”

Research Intrest

The main focus of my research is understanding the self-assembly process, i.e., processes which rely on spontaneous organization of small molecular block into complex structures. For me, the most fascinating fact about these systems is that the whole complex structure is encoded in a single molecular block. Although this would imply that we can obtain a desirable structure by careful design of the molecular block, this is hard to achieve due we know little about these processes.

In my work, I use computational methods to give insights into these processes since experimental methods face limitations. I am the most interested in combining different approaches, such as quantum mechanics, empirical simulations (i.g., MD), and data science (cheminformatics), to create reliable models for chemical systems, which could guide work in the lab towards better products.

I had the opportunity to go to Glasgow and work in Tuttle Lab on peptide-based supramolecular systems and go to Lyon to the Laboratoire Polymères et Matériaux Avancés of Solvey to work on multiscale simulations of polymers. Before starting my Ph.D., I studied at College of MISMaP at Warsaw University, from which I have gained M.Sc. degree in chemistry. As for the thesis itself, I wrote it in biophysical chemistry group at the Polish Academy of Science, where I developed Monte Carlo simulations and a model of fluorescent correlation spectroscope (FCS).

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