People - Electrospun Fibers Group

Group leader
Prof. Urszula Stachewicz (PhD, DSc)
Professor in Materials Science

Urszula Stachewicz is a professor in material science at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. She graduated from the Delft University of Technology with PhD in electrohydrodynamic of liquids to use electrospray as an on-demand deposition method, with research performed at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She conducted postdoctoral research at Queen Mary, University of London (UK) and work at spin-out company Nanoforce Technology Ltd. in polymer science and electrospun fibers. In 2018 she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, UK. Her research activity is focused on the surface properties of electrospun fibers for biomedical and water and energy harvesting and in situ mechanical testing of synthetic and naturally structured materials. She developed advanced 3D tomography protocols using focus ion beam and scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) for nanofibrous biomaterials and membranes. In 2020 she has been awarded with the ERC starting grant. More information can be found at: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, Linkedin, ResearachGate.

ustachew@agh.edu.pl

Orcid: 0000-0001-5102-8685

Postdoctoral researchers

Joanna Karbowniczek, PhD

jkarbow@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Biomaterials
Tissue engineering
Cell-material interactions

Orcid: 0000-0002-3726-1971

Piotr K. Szewczyk, PhD

pszew@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Electrospinning
Atomic Force Microscopy Functional polymers
Electron Microscopy

Orcid: 0000-0003-1441-7387

Daniel P. Ura, PhD

urad@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Electrospinning
Composite materials
Smart textiles
Nanotechnology

Orcid: 0000-0001-6330-6873

Sunija Sukumaran, PhD

sunija@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Electospun polymer fibers
Piezoelectric polymers
Energy harvesting devices
Polymer nanocomposites

Orcid: 0000-0003-2788-0565

Krzysztof Berniak, PhD

berniak@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Biomaterials,
Cell-material interactions Fluorescence microscopy

Orcid: 0000-0003-2389-314X

Joanna Knapczyk-Korczak, PhD

jknapczyk@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Material engineering Electrospinning
Water collection

Orcid: 0000-0003-3668-6123

Madhurima Das, PhD

das@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Polymer nanocomposite
Conducting polymers
Electrospun polymers
Thermal energy storage

Orcid: 0000-0002-9546-382X

PhD students

Martyna Polak, MSc

mpolak@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Electrospinning
Biomaterials
Cell – material interactions
Tissue engineering

Orcid: 0000-0002-8954-4519

Ahmadreza Moradi, MSc

moradi@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Electrospinning
Polymeric nanomaterials
Microfluidic devices
Numerical simulations

Orcid: 0000-0002-0173-4677

Michał Kopacz, MSc

mkopacz@agh.edu.pl

Research interests:
Electrospinning
Conductive polymers
Energy harvesting
Polymer composites

Orcid: 0009-0006-5613-9417

Administration

Katarzyna Kurek, MSc

kkurek@agh.edu.pl

Katarzyna is responsible for the administrative tasks of the group.
She also takes care of accounting and formalities related to the current projects.

Alumni

Former PhD students