Grzegorz Szwachta, dr
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Phone number (office): 22 55 32 735
Bio
Grzegorz Szwachta was born in Kraków (Poland) in 1988. He received an engineer's degree in Materials Science/Engineering from AGH University of Science and Technology in 2011. One year later, he obtained a Master degree in the same discipline. During PhD studies, he held a leadership position in the PRELUDIUM grant assigned by the National Science Centre in Poland (NCN). He received his PhD in Materials Science from AGH University of Science and Technology in 2018, specialising in thin-films deposition and their structural and chemical characterisation. Besides the scientific experiences, he undertook two industrial positions in the automotive production company and technological start-up company. His first postdoctoral fellowship was held in Military University of Technology in Warsaw and finished in 2022, focusing on the structural and optical features, and sensing capability of nanoporous anodic alumina platforms with photonic stop-band in the infrared spectral region. The second postdoctoral fellowship, realised in the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, fostering the early-stage and optical detection of oligomers associated with Alzheimer and Parkinson’s diseases. His research on photophysical properties of organic dyes and biomolecules (proteins, etc.) in liquid mixture and embedded in nanoporous anodic alumina platforms is supported by various techniques of UV/vis spectrophotometry, steady-state and time-resolved fluorometry, electron microscopy, and nanosecond or femtosecond laser spectroscopy. In 2025, he awarded grant in SONATA programme financed by NCN, regarding immobilisation and characterisation of stained polypeptides in nanoporous anodic alumina platform working as luminescence sensors, discriminating beta amyloids and alpha-synucleins hailed as the cornerstones of neurodegenerative diseases.
His current research focuses on electrochemical engineering of nanoporous anodic alumina platforms with straight and modulated structure of pores and their adaptation into portable luminescence sensors for early-stage detection of neurodegenerative diseases.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grzegorz-Szwachta
Location
University of Warsaw, Division of Optics
Pasteura 5, building A
Room: 3.35
Papers
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2025 ACS Chem. Neurosci. 16, 2371–2375
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2025 J. Phys. Chem. C 129, 14551–14558
