Prof. Izabela Nowak is the Head of the Applied Chemistry Department at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She wrote her master’s thesis on new inorganic compounds at the University of Reading, where she studied in 1992–1993. In the first period of her scientific work at Adam Mickiewicz University, she dealt with the introduction of niobium at extra-framework positions of zeolites, and later with the synthesis of new mesoporous materials. Her habilitation dissertation (for which she won the Prime Minister Award in 2008) concerned the synthesis, characterization, and catalytic properties of nanoporous materials for liquid phase oxidation. After receiving a degree of habilitation, she started her own research group. In 2014, she was bestowed with the title of Professor. In the years 2006–2016, she was responsible for running the university course in Cosmetic Chemistry and, starting from 2009, she has been in charge of the Applied Chemistry Department at the Faculty of Chemistry, AMU. She paid a number of scientific visits: in 2001, she stayed for a year at the Leverhulme Centre for Innovative Catal. Univer. of Liverpool, UK (Rohm & Haas stipend); in 2003, she stayed as a Fulbright Stipend holder at Kent State University (KSU); and in 2007, she stayed at KSU as a Kościuszko Foundation Stipend holder. She has been a principal investigator in many research projects (KBN/MNiSW/NCN/NCBiR, FNNP, and others). She was the President of the Polish Chemical Society (2019-2024).