Paweł Szlachcic was born in Kraków (Poland) and obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University (Kraków) in 2003. He performed his postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Food Technology, University of Agriculture (Kraków), where he works now as an Associate Professor. His research interests include heterocyclic chemistry (especially aza-heterocycles for optoelectronic applications) – synthesis and physical chemistry: NMR, UV-Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy and single crystal XRD.