prof. Ryszard Łobiński

Professor Ryszard Łobinski is a of chemistry, research director at the National Research Center of France (CNRS) and director of the Institute of Analytical and Physical Chemistry in Pau, France.

He graduated as a chemical engineer from the Warsaw University of Technology from which he obtained his Ph.D. He was post-doctoral fellow of the Max-Planck Society in Germany, Dortmund and then research assistant at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He held visiting professor positions at GKSS (Germany), Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (Poland), Chuo University (Japan), Sechenov Medical University (Russia) and Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil).

He was co-founder and co-director of Ultratrace Analysis Aquitaine (UT2A), a startup company employing now 12 people. In 2006-2008 he was President of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). In 2006 he was awarded a CNRS Silver Medal and, in 2007, was admitted fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London, UK).

His research interests concern the development of analytical methods for the identification and the determination of chemical forms of elements in the environment and biological systems (speciation and metallomics) in order to describe the mechanisms of uptake, metabolism, accumulation and excretion of trace elements by living organisms.