Mariusz Barczak is an associate professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland). He graduated from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in 2003. An individual course of studies connected with a one-year Erasmus fellowship at the Universidad de Granada (Spain) was supervised by Professor Krzysztof Woliński. In 2007 he obtained a Ph.D. title in the Faculty of Chemistry, UMCS in Lublin, Poland. He is also a member of the Association of Top 500 Innovators, which is the largest NGO platform in Poland dealing with cooperation between the R&D sector and innovative companies. His research interests include inter alia modern materials with defined properties, including biomaterials, hybrid materials, and nanomaterials, as well as nanotechnology, thin films, sol-gel methods, as well as applications of various types of materials in everyday life, industry, and environmental protection.