Ewa Schab-Balcerzak
University of Silesia, Poland
Biography
Ewa Schab-Balcerzak is a professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and head of the department of Polymer Chemistry. She is also a a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Centre of Polymer and Carbon Materials in Zabrze. She received her PhD in 1999 and DSc in 2010 from Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and from Warsaw University of Technology, respectively. In 1999, she was a visiting researcher at LEMP/MAO at the University of Montpellier, France. From 2010 to 2002 she was a Post-Doctoral Research assistant in the Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials in Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. In 2003, she worked at Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Polymer Research in Golm, Germany. Her experience and main research interests are in the design, synthesis, and characterization of new processable polymers and low molecular weight compounds for optoelectronic and photonic applications. Her scientific achievements contain over 110 papers in refereed journals, a few book chapters and contributed to over 100 communications in conferences. She is a reviewer for prestigious journals and editorial board member of a few journals.
Abstract
Abstract : Unconventional thiophene materials for optoelectronics