Robert Hołyst

Professor Robert Hołyst is the head of the Soft Matter Department of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He spent over 6 years working in the USA (University of Washington), France (Ecole Normale Superieure) and in Germany (Max Planck Institute in Mainz). He has supervised and mentored 30 PhD students and over 30 post-doctoral fellows (eight of them are already professorsin Poland, the USA and China). He is the author of over 290 articles in the field of physics, chemistry, biology and biotechnology published in English language journals, three academic textbooks and over 40 granted patents (including some in the USA). He has conducted research for major companies, such as Unilever, Samsung and Mitsui Chemicals. In 2003-2004, he was a shareholder and the CEO of Advanced Science and Technology Investment Group Sp. z o.o. He has experience in managing large projects (about 40 in the years 1993-2021), including four projects from the European Union: NOBLESSE (EUR 3.8 million), ERA CHAIR (EUR 2.5 million), NAMeS (EUR 2.5 million), PD2PI (EUR 2.5 million), NCBiR project (EUR 4.5 million), the TEAM grant from the Foundation for Polish Science (PLN 3 million), two MAESTRO grants from NCN (PLN 3 million each). He has lectured at Harvard, MIT, Yale,Princeton, 5 Max Planck Institutes, Ecole Normale in Paris and Lyon, Tokyo University, and SamsungAdvanced. He created cyclical competitions: Dream Chemistry Award and ZłotyMedal of Chemistry. In 2007-2015, he reorganized the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, increasingeffectiveness of research and revenues from projects over 10 times.