Biography

Agnieszka Tercjak obtained her Degree in Chemical Technology Engineering at the Technical University of Gdańsk (Poland) in 1995 and obtained the PhD Degree from the same university in 2000 focused on properties and characterization of polymer blends with biodegradable PHV-co-PHB copolymer, under the supervision of Prof. Bogumiła Masiulanis. She moved to Max-Plank Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz (Germany) in 2001 for one year and a half Postdoctoral Fellowship under the supervision of Prof. G Wegner focused on synthesis of amphiphilic polyelectrolyte based on cellulose. In 2003 she joined the Group `Materials + Technologies´ of the Chemical Engineering and Environmental Department at the Polytechnic School of Donostia-San Sebastian, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the frame of POLYNETSET project funded by European Union to follow her research in the field of polymer blends, under the supervision of Prof. Iñaki Mondragon. In 2005 she was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship financed from the Basque Government (E Modality) to work on polymeric materials modified with liquid crystals. In 2010 she was awarded the Ramón y Cajal Postdoctoral Senior Grant from the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry and from 2016 she got Permanent Senior Researcher position at the University of the Basque Country. In 2013 and in 2015 she carried out a research stays during 2 and 3 months, respectively, at the University of Sao Paulo in Araraquara (Brasil) as Visiting Professor. In 2016 and 2017 she stayed 2 and 2 months, respectively, at Gdańsk University of Technology as Visiting Professor. From 2012 she is professor of the Master in Renewable Materials Engineering and Master in Advanced Materials Engineering (UPV/EHU).

Research

Her research is mainly focused on the self-assembly of block copolymers, nanostructured thermosetting systems, nematic liquid crystals, inorganic/organic nanocomposites based on block copolymers and Au, TiO2, V2O5 nanoparticles, sol-gel technique, biohybrid materials based on bacterial cellulose and others biopolymers as well as with atomic force microscopy.

She has published more than 130 scientific articles, 19 book chapters and she is Editor of 1 book. Additionally, she has participated in more than 150 national and international conferences. She is a referee of more than 30 international journals and acts as evaluator of national and international projects. Furthermore, she has been involved in several research projects, 10 of them as Principal Investigator (being 5 of them founded by the European Union, the Spanish and Basque Governments).

She has supervised 5 PhD Thesis and currently she supervises other 4 PhD Thesis, two of them financed from the Basque Government. Furthermore, she supervised 2 postdoctoral student granted by UPV/EHU.