Prof. Dr. Anna Kowalewska

Prof. Dr. Anna Kowalewska is affiliated with the Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lodz (CMMS, PAS). She is the leader of the Hybrid Materials Physicochemistry Research Group at the Department of Polymeric Nano-Materials. She completed her MSc in Inorganic Chemistry and Technology at the Technical University of Lodz in 1990 and her PhD in Chemistry at CMMS PAS in 1998. In 2000, she became an Assistant Professor (adjunct) at the Department of Heteroorganic Polymers, CMMS PAS. In 2010, she obtained her DSc (habilitation) in Polymer Chemistry from CMMS PAS and became an Associate Professor in 2015, then a Full Professor in 2022. Her research areas include new organosilicon and hybrid materials–synthesis, physicochemical properties and applications, silsesquioxanes–species of ladder-like structure and their polyhedral analogs, well-defined thin poly silsesquioxane films for optoelectronics and biotechnology–structure and surface properties engineering, supramolecular interactions in organosilicon materials and polysilsesquioxane-based chemosensors.