Paulina Ratajczyk

Visiting Student

Education

10/2021 – Present Ph.D. studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poznań, Poland, supervisor: Prof. Andrzej Katrusiak

10/2019 – 07/2021 Master of Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poznań, Poland, supervisor: Prof. Andrzej Katrusiak

10/2016 – 06/2019 Bachelor of Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poznań, Poland, supervisor: Prof. Andrzej Katrusiak

Research

11/2020 – 10/2024 Principal investigator, Polish Ministry of Education and Science grant: DIAMENTOWY GRANT (No. 0160/DIA/2020/49).

Publications

1. Mączka, M., Sobczak, S., Ratajczyk, P., Furtado Leite, F., Paraguassu, W., Dybała, F., Herman, A.P., Kudrawiec, R., Katrusiak, A., Pressure-Driven Phase Transition in Two-Dimensional Perovskite MHy₂PbBr₄. Chem. Mater., 2022, (accepted).
2. Ratajczyk, P., Katrusiak, A., Bogdanowicz, K. A., Przybył, W., Krysiak, P., Kwak, A., Iwan, A., Mechanical strain, thermal and pressure effects on the absorption edge of an organic charge-transfer polymer for flexible photovoltaics and sensors. Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 2697-2705. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MA01066B

3. Sobczak, S., Ratajczyk, P., Katrusiak, A., Squeezing out the catalysts: the sustainable approach to disulfide bond exchange in aryl disulfides. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 2021, 9, 7171–7178. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c02240

4. Sobczak, S., Ratajczyk, P., Katrusiak, A., High-pressure nucleation of low-density polymorphs. Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 7069-7073. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202005121

5. Sobczak, S., Półrolniczak, A., Ratajczyk, P., Cai, W., Gładysiak, A., Nikolayenko, V. I., Castell, D., Barbour, L., Katrusiak, A., Large Negative Linear Compressibility of a Porous Molecular Co-Crystal. Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 4324-4327. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC00461H

6. Ratajczyk, P., Sobczak S., Katrusiak A., High-Pressure Structure and Properties of N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF). Cryst. Growth Des., 2018, 19, 896–901. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01452

Awards and Prizes

07/2022 – 09/2022 Kosciuszko Foundation award in Exchange Program to the United States

02/2021 Prize of the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding academic achievement

10/2020 – 06/2021 The first degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector’s Award

12/2019 Prize of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding academic achievement

10/2019 – 06/2020 The second degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector’s Award

10/2018 – 06/2019 The third degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector’s Award

10/2017 – 06/2018 The third degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector’s Award