PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Witold Ciesielski

1977 MSc in chemistry at the University of Łódź

1982 PhD in Chemistry

1991 habilitation (post-doctoral degree)

2006 full professor

Since 1993, Head of the Instrumental Analysis Department at the Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Łódź.

Membership of organisations:

Since 1987 Member of PTChem (Polish Chemical Society);

2007-2009 Chairman of the Revision Committee of Łódź Branch of PTChem;

2010-2015 Chairman of the General Review Committee of PTChem;

since 1999, member of Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe (Łódź Scientific Society);

2009-2012 Vice-Chairman of Division III of Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe;

2012-2015 Secretary of Division III of Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe;

2007-2019 Member of the Analytical Chemistry Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk PAN);

2007-2019 Member of the Commission for the Teaching of Analytical Chemistry of the PAN Analytical Chemistry Committee;

Since 2007 Member of the PAN Analytical Committee

1999-2011 Chairman of the High Election Commission of the University of Łódź;

2012-2016 Member of the Senate of the University of Łódź and two Senate Committees;

2020-2023 Chair of the Appeals Board of the University of Łódź

Teaching: instrumental and trace analysis. Student scripts: Laboratory exercises in instrumental analysis (1997); Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (2002); Calculation exercises in instrumental analysis (2014). The initiator and team leader responsible for the creation of “Chemical analytics” study programme.

Analytical chemistry. Environment pollution. Smog

Supervisor of 11 PhD theses. Co-author of 161 research papers and 216 Analytical Chemistry Conference Communications.