Associate ProfessorKatarzyna Stawicka

Assistant Professor

In 2010, she graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Adam Mickiewicz University and in 2014 she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled "Modified silica, metallosilicates and metal oxides - preparation, characterization and application in the esterification in the presence of glycerol". The thesis was supervised by Prof. Maria Ziolek. In 2014 she was employed as an assistant professor in the Department of Heterogeneous Catalysis. She was awarded the title of habilitated doctor in 2023 for her scientific achievement entitled: "Synthesis and characterization of hybrid catalysts used to obtain high-quality chemicals". She completed scientific internships at the Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, Catalytic Spectroscopy Laboratory, Instituto de Catalisis y Petroleoquimica, CSIC in Madrid (Spain) and at the Departamento de Química Inorgánica y Química Técnica, UNED in Madrid (Spain).

SCOPUS: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36997212600

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9075-1198

  • 2024 – Associate Professor
  • 2023 – Habilitation
  • 2014 – PhD
  • 2010 – MSc

FUNCTIONS:

  • Coordinator of Chemistry (II degree) at the Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University
  • The member of Polish Chemical Society
  • The member of Polish Zeolite Society

AWARDS:

Team Awards of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University

  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Synthesis and characterization of hybrid catalysts with acidic and basic properties
  • Catalytic production of valuable chemicals (e.g. in esterification, acetalization, condensation, dehydration reactions)
  1. D. Kryszak, K. Stawicka, M. Trejda, „Calcium and nitrogen species loaded into SBA-15 – a promising catalyst tested in Knoevenagel condensation”, Dalton Trans., 49 (2020) 9781-9794; doi: 10.1039/D0DT01621G
  2. K. Stawicka, M. Gierada, J. Gajewska, F. Tielens, M. Ziolek, „The importance of residual water for the reactivity of MPTMS with silica on the example of SBA-15”, Appl. Surf. Sci., 513 (2020) 145802-145812; doi: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.145802
  3. K. Stawicka, „Development of a method for the synthesis of basic catalysts with high number of active species”, Catal. Today, 354 (2020) 51-60; doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2019.09.013
  4. K. Stawicka, P. Decyk, A. Wojtaszek-Gurdak, M. Ziolek, „Comparative study of acid-basic properties of MCF impregnated with niobium and cerium species”, Catal. Today, 325 (2019) 2-10; doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2018.05.025
  5. D. Kryszak, K. Stawicka, M. Trejda, V. Calvino-Casilda, R. Martin-Aranda, M. Ziolek, „Development of basicity in mesoporous silicas and metallosilicates”, Catal. Sci. Technol., 7 (2017) 5236-5248; doi: 10.1039/C7CY00927E
  6. K. Stawicka, A.E. Díaz-Álvarez, V. Calvino-Casilda, M. Trejda, M.A. Bañares, M. Ziolek, „The role of Brønsted and Lewis acid sites in acetalization of glycerol over modified mesoporous cellular foams”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120 (2016) 166699-166711; doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b04229
  7. K. Stawicka, V. Calvino-Casilda, M. Trejda, M.A. Bañares, M. Ziolek, „Mesostructured cellular foams modified by niobium and tantalum and functionalized with (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane – Raman inspired reduction of synthesis time”, Catal. Today, 254 (2015) 111-118; doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2014.11.035
  8. V. Calvino-Casilda, K. Stawicka, M. Trejda, M. Ziolek, M.A. Bañares, „Real-time Raman monitoring and control of the catalytic acetalization of glycerol with acetone over modified mesoporous cellular foams”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 118 (2014) 10780-10791; doi: 10.1021/jp500651e
  9. M. Trejda, K. Stawicka, M. Ziolek, „The role of Nb in the formation of sulphonic species in SBA-15 and MCF functionalised with MPTMS”, Catal. Today, 192 (2012) 130-135; doi: 10.1016/j.cattod.2012.02.042
  10. M. Trejda, K. Stawicka, M. Ziolek, „New catalysts for biodiesel additives production”, Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 103 (2011) 404-412; doi: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2011.02.003