Dr. Tomasz Pędziński

Tomasz Pedzinski, PhD, Associate Professor, currently working at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (AMU), Poland and at AMU Centre for Advanced Technology in Poznan. He is an expert in laser-based time-resolved spectroscopy and its applications in photo-oxidation of biologically relevant systems. He earned his MSc and PhD from AMU, and in 2000 received a Fulbright Junior Fellowship. As a Fulbright fellow he spent one semester at Stanford University (CA, USA) and one semester at Notre Dame Radiation Lab (IN, USA), where he worked with Prof. K.-D. Asmus and Dr. Gordon L. Hug. After completing his PhD in 2002 he accepted a post-doc position at Optimare GmbH in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, where he worked for 3 years on the development of laser-based techniques. In 2005 he received a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant and returned to Poznan where he’s been employed at AMU since that time.

• author of over 50 scientific papers, cited over 500 times,
• H-index (Google Scholar): 15; (Web of Science): 14,
• reviewer for ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal of Organic Chemistry, The Journal of Physical Chemistry,
• visiting Professor at North Carolina State University (North Carolina, USA) and Northwest Normal University (Lanzhou, China)
• supervisor of over 10 theses (including 3 theses within the international Erasmus program) and an associate supervisor of a Ph.D. thesis of Marta Igansiak-Kciuk
• member of Programme Council of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Adam Mickiewicz University and EPICUR Coordinator at the Center of Advanced Technology

Academic and Research Career:

2017 – Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) „Laser Flash Photolysis studies of Benzophenone as a Photosensitizer of Biologically Significant Radical Processes”

2012 – 2015 – grant: Photochemically induced radical processes in amino acids and biologically active methionine-containing peptides, OPUS, NCN, 2011/03/B/ST4/01326

2002 – 2005 – Research Associate at Optimare GmbH, Wilhelmshaven, Germany (2.5 years work in the industry)

2003 – Ph.D. „Photophysical and photochemical properties of Acridine derivatives in solutions. Energy and electron transfer processes”

supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bronisław Marciniak

1997 – M.Sc,. „Luminescence of oxalate esters in solutions”

supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marian Elbanowski

2010-2011 – Project leader CLIO IC 016-10/11 – University Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Project title: “One-electron oxidation of methionine amino acid in solution, of methionine residue in peptides and of larger peptides containing methionine: toward predicting the oxidation products of the Prion protein”

since 2017 – Associate Professor at Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU)

2005 – 2017 – Assistant Professor at Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University (AMU)

since 2011 – Wielkopolska Center for Advanced Technology (WCAT), Core Infrastructure Manager

Publications:

1. Gut, A.; Łapok, Ł.; Drelinkiewicz, D.; Pędziński, T.; Marciniak, B.; Nowakowska, M., Visible‐Light Photoactive, Highly Efficient Triplet Sensitizers Based on Iodinated Aza‐BODIPYs: Synthesis, Photophysics and Redox Properties. Chemistry–An Asian Journal 2018, 13 (1), 55-65.

2. Franski, R; Gierczyk, B.; Popenda Ł.; Pedzinski, T., Identification of a biliverdin geometric isomer by means of HPLC/ESI–MS and NMR spectroscopy. Differentiation of the isomers by using fragmentation “in-source”. Monatshefte fuer Chemie/Chemical Monthly149 (6), 995-1002 2018.

3. Łapok, Ł.; Obłoza, M.; Solarski, J.; Pędziński, T.; Nowakowska, M., The facile synthesis, triplet state properties and electrochemistry of hexaiodo‐subphthalocyanine. Chemistry–A European Journal 2018.

4. Pedzinski, T.; Filipiak, P.; Hug, G. L.; Bobrowski, K.; Marciniak, B., Unexpected reactions of the reducing alpha-aminoalkyl radical in the oxidation of S-alkyl-glutathiones. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 2018, 120, S125.

5. Abid, A. R.; Marciniak, B.; Pędziński, T.; Shahid, M., Photo-stability and photo-sensitizing characterization of selected sunscreens’ ingredients. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2017, 332, 241-250.

6. Jarmużek, D.; Pedzinski, T.; Hoffmann, M.; Siodła, T.; Salus, K.; Pluskota-Karwatka, D., Experimental and theoretical studies on fluvastatin primary photoproduct formation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2017, 19 (33), 21946-21954.

7. Jaroszewski, K.; Gluchowski, P.; Brik, M. G.; Pedzinski, T.; Majchrowski, A.; Chrunik, M.; Michalski, E.; Kasprowicz, D., Bifunctional Bi2ZnOB2O6: Nd3+ Single Crystal for Near Infrared Lasers: Luminescence and μ-Raman Investigations. Crystal Growth & Design 2017, 17 (7), 3656-3664.

8. Pedzinski, T.; Kazmierczak, F.; Filipiak, P.; Marciniak, B., Oxidation studies of a novel peptide model N-acetyl-3-(methylthio) propylamine. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2017, 336, 98-104.

9. Purc, A.; Koszarna, B.; Iachina, I.; Friese, D. H.; Tasior, M.; Sobczyk, K.; Pędziński, T.; Brewer, J.; Gryko, D. T., The impact of interplay between electronic and steric effects on the synthesis and the linear and non-linear optical properties of diketopyrrolopyrrole bearing benzofuran moieties. Organic Chemistry Frontiers 2017, 4 (5), 724-736.