Innovative People

Elzbieta Swietek

Elzbieta Swietek I graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry (Jagiellonian University). My master thesis was performed in the profile of Chemistry of New Materials and Catalysis. The subject of the study was to design and obtain crystalline phases containing chiral crystals of merbital or barbital. A great success was to obtain brand new chiral crystalline phase with achiral components.

Currently, I am a PhD student in Coordination and Bioinorganic Physicochemistry Group at Faculty of Chemistry, UJ (planned defense: September 2013). The main aim of my research is the characterization of redox properties of semiconducting materials. I am also a co-author of an innovative method for determination of the bottom of the conduction band for different types of semiconductors. I had the opportunity to present the results of my work at national and international scientific conferences. I was also an executor of three research grants and currently I am the manager and executor of a research project funded by the National Science Centre. I am also co-author of scientific publications.

Currently, I am working as a Technology Transfer Officer in the Centre for Innovation, Technology Transfer and University Development (UJ). I am responsible for identification of innovative projects at the Jagiellonian University and implementation of the commercialization process, including carrying out an initial assessment of the market potential and the possibility of obtaining patent protection and preparation of tender process as well as managing the intellectual property of innovative projects, establishing initial business relationships in the area of the entire technological portfolio of UJ and selection of the optimal strategy of commercialization (license, sale or spinoff company) in collaboration with the inventors and the interested company.

Languages Elzbieta Swietek speaks:

English
Polish