Associate ProfessorAnna Lewandowska-Andrałojć

Associate Professor
  • 2007, M.Sc. Adam Mickiewicz University, thesis title: "Calculations of thermodynamic functions based on statistical physics for different models of diatomic molecules”
  • 2011, Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University, thesis title: „Photoinduced electron, proton or hydrogen-atom transfer reactions in benzophenone-tyrosine and benzophenone-methionine bichromophoric systems”
  • 2021, Habilitation, Adam Mickiewicz University, title of achievement: “Mechanistic insights into electron and proton transfer reactions in the compounds and materials of potential use in artificial photosynthesis”
  • 2022 – prof. UAM position (Associate Professor) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

AWARDS:

  • 2020, 2018 - AMU Rector's Award of 1st Degree for Scientific Achievements
  • Laureate of START programme from Foundation of Polish Science 2016
  • Photochemistry and photocatalysis of nanomaterials
  • Photochemistry and photophysics of porphyrins
  • Synthesis and characterization of nanostructures based on 2D materials
  • Application of 2D materials in photocatalysis
  • Photocatalytic hydrogen production and photodegradation of dyes
  • Mechanistic studies of proton and electron for systems related to artificial photosynthesis
  • A. Siklitskaya, E. Gacka, D. Larowska, D. M. Mazurkiwicz-Pawlicka, A. Malolepszy, L. Stobinski, B. Marciniak, A. Lewandowska-Andralojc*, A. Kubas, “Lerf–Klinowski-type models of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide are robust in analyzing non-covalent functionalization with porphyrins”. Sci Rep, 2021, 11,7977
  • E. Gacka, L. Majchrzycki, B. Marciniak, A. Lewandowska-Andralojc*, “Effect of graphene oxide flakes size and number of layers on photocatalytic hydrogen production“  Sci. Rep., 2021, 11, 15969
  • Lewandowska-Andralojc*, A. Malolepszy, A. Stritt, A. Grohmann, “Modification of Eosin Y and Cobalt Molecular Catalyst System with Reduced Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production”, Cat. Sci. Technol, 2020, 10, 4693
  • Lewandowska-Andralojc*, D. Larowska, E. Gacka, T. Pedzinski, B. Marciniak, “How Eosin Y/Graphene Oxide-Based Materials Can Improve Efficiency of Light-Driven Hydrogen Generation: Mechanistic Aspects”,J. Phys. Chem. C 2020, 124, 5, 2747
  • Lewandowska-Andralojc, B. Marciniak,” Five Major Sins in Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Light-Harvesting Hybrid Materials”, ACS Energy Letters, 2019, 4, 1898
  • E. Gacka, A. Wojcik, M. Mazurkiewicz-Pawlicka, A. Malolepszy, L. Stobiński, A. Kubas, G. L. Hug, B. Marciniak, A. Lewandowska-Andralojc*, “Noncovalent Porphyrin–Graphene Oxide Nanohybrids: The pH-Dependent Behavior”, J.Phys.Chem. C, 2019, 123, 6, 3368
  • Y. Xie, D. W. Shaffer, A. Lewandowska-Andralojc, D. J. Szalda, J. J. Concepcion, “Water Oxidation by Ruthenium Complexes Incorporating Multifunctional Bipyridyl Diphosphonate Ligands” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 8067
  • K Garg, Y. Matsubara, M. Z. Ertem, A. Lewandowska-Andralojc, S. Sato, D. J. Szalda, J. T. Muckerman, E. Fujita, “Striking Differences in Properties of Geometric Isomers of [Ir(tpy)(ppy)H]+: Experimental and Computational Studies of their Hydricities, Interaction with CO₂, and Photochemistry” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 14128
  • A. Lewandowska-Andralojc*, T. Baine, X. Zhao, J. Muckerman, E. Fujita, D. Polyansky, “Mechanistic studies of hydrogen evolution in aqueous solution catalyzed by a tertpyridine-amine cobalt complex”, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 4310
  • A. Lewandowska-Andralojc, D.E. Polyansky, “Mechanism of the Quenching of the Tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II) Emission by Persulfate: Implications for Photo-Induced Oxidation Reactions” J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 117, 10311