Jakub Czakaj received his M.Sc. Eng. degree in Materials Engineering from Wrocław University of Science and Technology in 2011 and his M.Sc. degree in Applied and Fundamental Physics from École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, formerly ENS Cachan, in 2011. He is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences at the Doctoral School of Exact Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He has worked in R&D at Almara sp. z o.o. sp.k., where he focuses on the development and industrial implementation of butyl-based adhesive and sealing materials. In 2025, he was appointed as an independent commercial proxy of Almara. His research topics mainly include hot-melt butyl rubber sealants, pressure-sensitive adhesives, polymer and elastomer compounding, organosilicon modifiers, crosslinking, rheology, thermal analysis, and materials characterization.