Wiktoria Adamowicz has been a member of the Team of Photocatalysis within the Group of Coordination and Bioinorganic Physicochemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, since 2018. From 2019 to 2020, she worked on the TEAM project “In quest of a more efficient quantum solar energy exploitation in energy downhill and uphill photocatalytic processes (INGENIOUS)”, funded by the Foundation for Polish Science. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in 2020 with a thesis entitled “Photocatalytic oxidation of C1 compounds in the gas phase on oxide semiconductors”, followed by a master’s degree in 2022 with a thesis entitled “Selective reduction of nitroaromatic compounds in photocatalytic processes”. In the same year, she began her doctoral studies in chemistry at the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences at Jagiellonian University. During her doctoral studies, she undertook a short academic visit to Kobe University, Japan, in 2026, where she met with Professor Mizuhata and his team. On 3 September 2026, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis, which was awarded a distinction.
Her doctoral research focused on the relationship between the structure and morphology of titanium dioxide (TiO₂) and strontium titanate (SrTiO₃) and their photocatalytic activity, particularly in the selective reduction of nitroaromatic compounds to aniline derivatives. These products are important building blocks for pharmaceuticals, dyes, and other chemicals. Her work combined studies of anatase and rutile with the design of crystals exposing selected crystallographic facets and the development of TiO₂/SrTiO₃ thin-film heterostructures. It provided insights into how material design influences photogenerated charge-carrier separation and the efficiency and selectivity of photocatalytic reactions. Notably, shape engineering of SrTiO₃ crystals increased the reduction rate by up to a factor of 40 compared with commercial SrTiO₃.
She has co-authored five journal articles with ca. 40 citations and an h-index of 5.
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