Prof. Urszula Stachewicz (PhD, DSc)

AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
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Research interest:

- biomaterials and nanomaterials for tissue scaffolds applications
- 3D FIB-SEM, slice and view, cryo-FIB-SEM, 3D tomography and imaging
- combination of AFM and SEM for investigation of adhesion/wetting forces at small length scales
- physical properties and behaviour of soft materials at small length scales
- mechanical and surface properties of soft materials
- polymeric nanofibres and their composites produced by electrospinning methods
- biomimetic systems

PI in current projects:

1. First Team ‘Nanofiber-based sponges for atopic skin treatment' funded by Foundation for Polish Science, First TEAM/2017-4/41, 3 years, started on 1-10-2018
2. Sonata Bis 5 'Bioinspired design of nanofibres network for water and energy collection' funded by National Science Centre in Poland, No 2015/18/E/ST5/00230, 5 years, started 1-09- 2016
3. Sonata 8 '3D analysis of cell responses to piezoelectric and charge induced polymer nanofibres scaffolds' funded by National Science Centre in Poland, No 2014/15/D/ST5/02598), 3 years, started on 1-07-2015

Research experience:

Visiting Scholar at University of Cambridge, UK, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
UWERTURA grant from funded by National Science Centre in Poland, No 2017/24/U/ST5/00397, 4 months from 1-06 to 30-09- 2018

DSc, (Habilitation) AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków Poland, Cumulative dissertation: Analysis on various properties of polymeric nanofibres for application in nanotechnology and tissue engineering (September 2017)
PostDoc, Queen Mary University of London, School of Engineering and Material Science and Nanoforce Technology Ltd, UK (2009 – 2014)
PhD, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands (2004 - 2009) Marie Curie Fellowship at
Philips Research Eindhoven, PhD dissertation: Analysis of electrospraying as an on-demand deposition method
MSc, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland and
University of Applied Science, Münster, Germany (2003 - 2004)
Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, Potsdam-Golm, Germany (March 2004 – September 2004), MSc dissertation: Mechanical Mapping of Osteonal Compact Bone with Lamellar Resolution

Professional profiles:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5102-8685
Research ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-1759-2010
Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/urszula-stachewicz/
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Urszula_Stachewicz
Academia: https://agh.academia.edu/UrszulaStachewicz
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l3lhBi8AAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/urszula-stachewicz-387b5a1/