dr Aleksandra Pilch-Wróbel
PhD Aleksandra Pilch-Wróbel is an assistant professor at the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Division of Biomedical Physicochemistry. She received her MSc in Chemistry from the University of Wrocław (2013) and her PhD in Chemistry from the Low Temperature and Structure Research (2020).
She has participated in several major research projects, including the H2020-FETOPEN project ‘Nanoarticles-based 2D Thermal Bioimaging Technologies Nano TBTech’ (2018-2021) and the OPUS14 project ‘Microrobots Controlled by Multifunctional Optical Tweezers for Cancer Hyperthermia’ (2018-2021). She was also a contractor in the NCN Sonata Bis project ‘Nanocolloidal core-shell structures doped with lanthanides: Synthesis and modulation of spectroscopic properties’ (2013-2018).
In 2018, she became the project leader of the Preludium project "Tuning the Luminescent Properties of NaYF4:Yb3+, Ln3+ (Ln=Ho3+, Er3+, Tm3+) by Ce3+ Codoping".
She has received several prestigious awards, including an ETIUDA scholarship (2018), a START 2020 scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science and two EU-funded short-term research travel grants. Aleksandra completed her professional training at the University of Turku, Finland, focusing on resonant Förster energy transfer (FRET) in upconversion nanoparticles.
Her research focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and application of lanthanide-doped luminescent nanoparticles, particularly in areas such as FRET phenomena, pH sensing and optical spectroscopy. Currently, as head of an NCN SONATA project, she is investigating resonant upconversion energy transfer to pH-sensitive dyes for new nanoparticle-based sensing technologies.
She has participated in several major research projects, including the H2020-FETOPEN project ‘Nanoarticles-based 2D Thermal Bioimaging Technologies Nano TBTech’ (2018-2021) and the OPUS14 project ‘Microrobots Controlled by Multifunctional Optical Tweezers for Cancer Hyperthermia’ (2018-2021). She was also a contractor in the NCN Sonata Bis project ‘Nanocolloidal core-shell structures doped with lanthanides: Synthesis and modulation of spectroscopic properties’ (2013-2018).
In 2018, she became the project leader of the Preludium project "Tuning the Luminescent Properties of NaYF4:Yb3+, Ln3+ (Ln=Ho3+, Er3+, Tm3+) by Ce3+ Codoping".
She has received several prestigious awards, including an ETIUDA scholarship (2018), a START 2020 scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science and two EU-funded short-term research travel grants. Aleksandra completed her professional training at the University of Turku, Finland, focusing on resonant Förster energy transfer (FRET) in upconversion nanoparticles.
Her research focuses on the synthesis, characterisation and application of lanthanide-doped luminescent nanoparticles, particularly in areas such as FRET phenomena, pH sensing and optical spectroscopy. Currently, as head of an NCN SONATA project, she is investigating resonant upconversion energy transfer to pH-sensitive dyes for new nanoparticle-based sensing technologies.