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Magda was born in 1990 in Wałcz, located in Western Pomerania. She started her academic career at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 2012, followed by a Master’s in Materials Chemistry in 2014. In 2020, she successfully defended her PhD dissertation with honors under the guidance of Prof. Bogdan Marciniec at the Department of Organometallic Chemistry.

During her PhD studies, she was awarded a Preludium grant (NCN) and contributed to various projects, including Opus, Sonata, Maestro (NCN), and PBS (NCBiR), collaborating with Prof. Bogdan Marciniec, Prof. Bronisław Marciniak, and Dr. Dawid Frąckowiak.

In January 2021, she started her position as an assistant professor at the Center for Advanced Technologies. Later that year, in October, she joined Marcin Lindner’s team as a postdoctoral researcher, working on the Lider XI project at IOC PAS. For two years, she focused on organic emitters for TADF OLED materials based on curved nanographene fragments.

In the meantime, she secured another grant from the “ID-UB” program, “50×50: 50 grants for 50 young researchers,” awarded by the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Currently, Dr. Grzelak continues her academic journey at Adam Mickiewicz University as an assistant professor and is part of Prof. Ireneusz Kownacki’s group.

In 2024, Magdalena starts her independent research project, Sonata (NCN), exploring multichromophoric open-cage silsesquioxanes as quantitative optical anion sensors.

Her research interests encompass organometallic chemistry, catalysis, the synthesis and functionalization of silsesquioxanes and germasilsesquioxanes, as well as π-conjugated organic and organosilicon compounds.

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