Piotr Ulański graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology, Poland, and obtained his doctorate (1996) and habilitation (2009) in chemistry at the same university. He has been a research and teaching staff member there since 1990 in the team of prof. Janusz M. Rosiak. He has completed internships at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (Mainz, Germany), and spent 4 years as a Ph.D. student and post-doc at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany) in the group of prof. Clemens von Sonntag, including one year as a Humboldt Fellow. Currently he is a group leader and a full professor at the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology in Lodz, Poland.
Research interests: mechanism and kinetics of fast reactions initiated by ionizing radiation in polymer systems, radical polymerization, intermolecular and intramolecular cross-linking of polymers, synthesis, properties and applications of polymer nanogels and microgels, sonochemical and radiation modification of polymers of natural origin, physicochemistry of polymer solutions, pulse radiolysis, new research methods reactions in polymer systems, polymer complexes, sonochemistry of polymers, sonodynamic therapy, polymer biomaterials (mainly hydrogels), intelligent polymer materials, polymer- and metal nanomaterials for medical applications.
Professor Ulański is a co-author of 97 papers in ISI-listed journals and 5 chapters in international scientific monographs. His works have been cited over 3300 times (Hirsch index 32). He is also a co-author of 11 patents and patent applications. He has made over 230 presentations at national and international conferences, including many invited lectures and is a co-author of 4 popular-science films commissioned by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
He was the manager and main contractor of over a dozen national and international research projects, including a NATO grant implemented jointly with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Since 2000, he has been a consultant and since 2007 an expert of the International Atomic Energy Agency. On behalf of IAEA he conducted expert missions in Croatia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Thailand and numerous assignments at IAEA-organized courses and workshops, as a lecturer or event co-ordinator.
Professor Ulański conducts classes at B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies in the fields of Chemistry, Chemical Technology, Nanotechnology and Materials Science, including new topics such as sonochemistry, nanoscience and nanotechnology, as well as presentation techniques. He supervised over 20 B.Sc. Eng. and master’s theses and six doctoral dissertations.
He reviewed over 250 papers for many international scientific journals. From 2007, he has been the Associate Editor of Radiation Physics and Chemistry (IF 2.858), an international scientific journal devoted to radiation physics and chemistry published by Elsevier, and since 2016 he is the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
He is a board member of The Miller Trust for Radiation Chemistry (UK) and the Radiation Research Foundation (Poland), and member of the board of directors of the Polish Radiation Research Society – memorial to Maria Skłodowska-Curie. He is also a member of the expert corps of the National Science Center, Poland.
Since 2007, he has been a deputy director of the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology, coordinator of the Nanotechnology and Biobased & Bioinspired Materials courses at this university and the coordinator of double-diploma studies conducted jointly by the Lodz University of Technology and the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Piotr Ulański is a laureate of the Prime Minister’s award for the best doctoral dissertation, the award of the Polish Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific achievements, as well as awards for the best reviewers awarded by the Elsevier publishing house.
