Prof. Renata Bilewicz Faculty of Chemistry, University of , Pasteura 1 http://beta.chem.uw.edu.pl/people/RBilewicz/ Cell phone: +48 600858244. Prof. Renata Bilewicz - academic experience and professional activities Her field of expertise is supramolecular and biomimetic electrochemistry. She is especially interested in electron transfer processes in supramolecular and biomolecular assemblies, in molecular and ion recognition at interfaces. She studies electron transport in biological and biomimetic molecular systems from the viewpoint of their application in electrochemical sensors and biofuel cells. The sensing layers are usually molecular films prepared by the Langmuir-Blodgett and self-assembly procedures, Macrocyclic complexes are often used as active/receptor sites of the layers employed for electrocatalysis and electroanalysis. She is author or co-author of over 230 publications, 4 book chapters and several review papers. She is the head of Laboratory of Theory and Applications of Electrodes in Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, member of the Faculty Council in the Department of Chemistry, Warsaw University and vice-chair of Scientific Council of Physical Chemistry Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is member of Bioelectrochemical Society, International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and Polish (Secretary of Warsaw Branch (1990-94), Secretary of Polish Chemical Society 1994-97, Chairperson of Warsaw Branch 2000-03). Chair of Bioelectrochemistry Division of ISE (2012-2014), currently she is member of Bioelectrochemical Society Board, and Hercules Science– ESFRI Commission in Brussels, Advisory Board member of Electrochimica Acta (past) Electrocatalysis (past), Bioelectrochemistry (at present) and Molecules (at present). She organized or co-organized international scientific meetings (among them: ISE 2000, ISMC 2003, BEB 2005, Surphare 2005, MRS Symposium “ From Molecular Recognition to Molecular Devices” Gdańsk 2007, Annual MRS Meeting in Boston 2018, BES 2019 in Limerick, ISE Bioelectrochemistry Symposium in Durban 2019, SMCBS meetings on sensing every 2years, and was co-chair of BES Cracow 2011, co-chair of Polish Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Warsaw 2019.

Professional funded research Prof. Renata Bilewicz was the Coordinator of TEMPUS Structural Joint European Project JEP 12177 on restructuring of the chemical studies in Warsaw University (1998-2000) and representative of in the Management Committee of the COST programme for scientific cooperation. She was heading the Polish Group participating together with University of Basel (coordinator Prof. T.H. Kaden), University of St. Andrews and University of Birmingham in the COST D1/002 Project devoted to bioinorganic chemistry. She was the Project Coordinator of Ministry of Education and Science Project PBZ KBN-098/T09/2003-2007) „ New generation of conducting molecular layers for analytical and medical diagnosis and bioelectronics” GDRE project with France and Germany (2007-2010) ”Enzymatic nanoengineering of selective lipid membranes for sensor applications”” Coordinator of Polish - Swiss Programme of Cooperation 2010-2014 and Swiss SNSF project Sinergia between Switerland and Poland ( 2015-2019) (Cooperation with Prof E. Landau from University of Zurich and Raffaele Mezzenga for ETH). ITN EU Grant “Bioenergy”, Coordinator: Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann, Bohum. Currently she has two grants from the Polish National Science Center.

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Research topics in Bilewicz Group - Construction of bioelectrochemical, enzyme based systems for oxygen and neurotransmitters and drugs sensing. - Application of enzymes in fuel cell technology, hybrid system designing, construction of enzymatic fuel cells and supercapacitors. - Preparation of mesostructured electrode supports; preparation of porous conductive microparticles; Immobilisation of enzyme layers inside porous microparticles. - Studies of electron transfer mechanisms – direct and mediated electron transfer, long range electron transport in biological systems. - Studies of the effect of gold nanoparticles on the performance of enzymatic electrodes. Synthesis of ultrasmall, quantum sized gold nanoparticles and their application in bioelectrochemistry. Studies of the nonbiological material /biological material interface properties. - Design of new bioelectrochemical systems containing enzymes and lipidic liquid-crystalline phases for chemical compound sensing. - Applications of lipidic cubic phases and nanoparticles - cubosomes as drug carriers. - Mechanism of incorporation and efficiency of transport of selected anticancer drugs and statins through model biological membranes prepared by Langmuir-Blodgett, liposome spreading, layer by layer deposition and self-assembly methods. - Studies of tetraazamacrocycles and cyclodextrins with aromatic side groups as molecular switches and pH-active drug delivery systems.

Scientific Publications and Patents (Web of Science: 230, H 35). More info: http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/people/RBilewicz/

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