Functions:

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (AMU)

• 2020-2024 - member of the Academic Senate

Faculty of Chemistry, AMU

• member of Scientific council for the chemical sciences discipline;
• member of Dean's Council -Faculty of Chemistry, AMU
• member of Program Council - Faculty of Chemistry, AMU –
• Head of Department of Physicochemistry of the Environment

Polish Chemical Society (PChS)

• member of the Polish Chemical Society Main Audit Committee for the 2019-2021 term

Awards:

• 1994 -  Foundation for Polish Sciences – stipend for young researchers START;
• 1997 - award of the Polish Chemical Society for the best article published in “Wiadomości Chemiczne”;
• 2001 – stipend of Deutsche Forschung Gemeinschaft (DFG) - Universität Bremen (Germany);
• 2001 -2002 – stipend of NATO – Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy);
• 2007 – research stay - Università degli Studi di Milano (Włochy);
• 2008 - Wiktor Kemula award for the best habilitation dissertation in 2008 - Polish Chemical Society;
• 2014, 2015 –  academic training (visiting professor) - South Kazakhstan State University M. Auezov, Shymkent (Kazachstan);
• 2017 – research stay - Erasmus Plus - Vilnius University (Litwa);
• 2018 – academic training - Scientific Research Center of Salt Technologies in Astana (Kazakhstan).

• analysis of the physicochemical properties and biological activity of substances contained in the biomass of plant materials;
• synthesis and analysis of new materials based on natural resources;
• modern extraction methods;
• bioactive compounds in plant extracts;
• the use of algae biomass in agriculture and industry;
• synthesis of ion-binding ligands - pollutants in the water environment.

1. Ł. Tabisz, Z. Rozwadowski, A. Katrusiak, B. Łęska, Exploring ion-ion preferences through structure-property correlations: amino acid-derived, bis(guanidinium) disiloxane salts, Sci. Rep., 10(1) (2020) 646.

2. Ł. Tabisz, J. Stanek, B. Łęska, „DIY" silica nanoparticles: Exploring the scope of a simplified synthetic procedure and absorbance-based diameter measurements, Materials, 13(14) (2020) 3088.

3. I. Michalak, M. Andrys, M. Korczyński, S. Opaliński, B. Łęska, D. Konkol, R. Wilk, E. Rój, K. Chojnacka, Biofortification of hens eggs with polyunsaturated fatty acids by new dietary formulation: Supercritical microalgal extract, Animals, 10(3)(2020) 499.

4. K. Korzeniowska, B. Łęska, P.P. Wieczorek, Isolation and determination of phenolic compounds from freshwater Cladophora glomerata, Algal Res., 48 (2020) 102912.

5. J. Fabrowska, B. Messyasz, R. Pankiewicz, P. Wilińska, B. Łęska, Seasonal differences in the content of phenols and pigments in thalli of freshwater Cladophora glomerata and its habitat, Water Res., 135 (2018) 66-74.

6. R. Pankiewicz, B. Łęska, B. Messyasz, J. Fabrowska, M. Sołoducha, M. Pikosz, First isolation of polysaccharidic ulvans from the cell walls of freshwater algae, Algal Res., 19 (2016) 348-354.

7. J. Fabrowska, E. Ibanez, B. Łęska, M. Herrero, Supercritical fluid extraction as a tool to valorize underexploited freshwater green algae, Algal Res., 19 (2016) 237-245.

8. Ł. Tabisz, A. Tukibayeva, R. Pankiewicz, M. Dobielska, B. Łęska, Disiloxanes and Functionalized Silica Gels: One Route, Two Complementary Outcomes—Guanidinium and Pyridinium Ion-Exchangers, PLoS ONE (2015) 10(12):e0145680.

9. A. Rybak, B. Messyasz, B. Łęska, Freshwater Ulva (Chlorophyta) as a bioaccumulator of selected heavy metals (Cd, Ni and Pb) and alkaline earth metals (Ca and Mg), Chemosphere, 89 (2012) 1066-1076.