Professor Joanna Szpunar a is renowned specialist in the field of HPLC, CZE, and hyphenated techniques applied to specification and fractionation of trace metals and metalloids in biological systems.
These techniques, also used at the Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, find their application in many research areas such as biology, toxicology, medicine, food and environmental science.
Professor Szpunar graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at Warsaw University of Technology in 1986; obtained her PhD in 1992, and D.Sc. in 2000 at University of Warsaw. She was promoted to the rank of professor in 2007; since 1997 onwards she has been employed at the French National Research Council (CNRS, Pau, France). Between 1993-1994 she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Antwerp (U.I.A), Belgium, and then a post-doctoral research fellow of the European Environmental Research Organization(EERO) at the University of Bordeaux, France.
Professor Szpunar is an author or a co-author of approximately 120 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, and delivered more than 30 plenary and invited lectures at international conferences. She is a member of Editorial Board of Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Szpunar’s numerous publications and her scientific attainments are documented by a high number of citations (3811 in the Information Sciences Institute).
As a part of her visit at Warsaw University of Technology from October to November 2011.
Joanna Szpunar will be hosted by Professors: Maciej Jarosz and Stanisław Janeczko.