Prof. Joanna Szpunar

Joanna Szpunar graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1986 and obtained her Ph.D (1992) and D.Sc. (habilitation) (2000) from at the University of Warsaw.

Since 1997 she works at the National Research Council of France (CNRS). In 2007 she obtained the title of professor of chemistry (Poland). She has a broad experience in the field of bio-inorganic speciation analysis with a focus on the identification and quantification of trace element species in biological systems and in the chemistry of metal-biomolecule interactions. She is the author or co-author of a book and ca. 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Her works have received more than 12200 citations (h-factor 69).

Joanna Szpunar is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. She has given more than 50 invited lectures and is a member Advisory Boards of JAAS, Metallomics and Separations. She has supervised 12 PhD theses and several post-doctoral fellows.

She was the chairperson of the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry (Cracow, Poland) in 2013 and is the laureate of the 2013 Jerzy Fijalkowski Award and the 2017 European Award for Plasma Spectrochemistry.