1. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Prof. Andrzej W. Trochimczuk
Vice Dean
Faculty of Chemistry
Wroclaw University of Technology

2. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY IN NUMBERS
STAFF:
75 PROFESSORS
90 ASSOCIATES
58 ASSISTANTS
ca. 100 supporting staff (technicians, librarians, mechanical and glassblowing shops workers, etc.)

3. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY
INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC TECHNOLOGY AND MINERAL FERTILIZERS

4. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Biochemistry Research Group
Analytical Chemistry Research Group
Bioorganic Chemistry Research Group
Inorganic and Structural Chemistry Research Group
Organic Chemistry Research Group
Fuel Chemistry and Technology Research Group
Chemical Engineering Research Group
Polymer Engineering and Technology Research Group
Polymer and Carbonaceous Materials Research Group
Chemical Metallurgy Research Group
Chemical and Biochemical Processing Research Group
Organic Technology Research Group
Microbiology and Medicinal Chemistry Research Group

5. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Facilities at Faculty of Chemistry:
Teaching area: sq.m (including 1143 sq.m of lecturing rooms (auditorial), 2085 sq.m of smaller teaching rooms and almost 2000 sq.m of laboratories and additional 600 sq.m of large semi-technological laboratory).
Total area (including research facilities square meters

8. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Equipment at Faculty of Chemistry:
600 MHz NMR spectrometer, few ICP and AAS spectrophotometers (we are having a Certified Laboratory of Multielemental Analysis), GC-MS, several GC and HPLC chromatographs, XPS, surface area analysis, thermal analysis (DSC, TG)…+ many more, and an access to AFM, SEM, X-ray scanning

9. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
THOSE RESOURCES (STAFF AND FACILITES) ARE USED IN TEACHNING AND RESEARCH
Teaching
Old system (5-year leading to MSc degree) + (4 year PhD program)
New system (3.5 year leading to Eng.)+(1.5 year to get a MSc)+ (4 year PhD program)
Ca students and ca. 140 PhD students

10. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Students can pick up one of the following programs:
Biotechnology
Chemistry
Chemical engineering
Chemical technology
Material engineering
After getting MSc the top students can be enrolled in PhD program:

11. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH
OPPORTUNITIES
Our Graduate School is managed by the Director elected by Faculty Council together with the corresponding committee responsible for implementation of study program.
Every graduate student has own individual curriculum formulated by thesis supervisor, which is periodically monitored by departmental committee.
At this moment we have ca. 140 PhD students

12. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Duration: 4 years (8 weeks of Summer vacation) (+1 year of possible extension)
Progress evaluated every semester (report,seminar)
Opening of PhD procedure – 2 or 3 sem.
Closing of Ph.D procedure – written thesis accepted by supervisor and scientific council, final examinations, positive opinions of two referees, oral PhD thesis defence, scientific council acceptance

13. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
theoretical studies (quantum chemistry, all types of computer-aided modeling, Computer Aided Design of processes ect.)
experimental basic chemistry (inorganic, bioinorganic, organic and bioorganic, analytical and physical chemistry)
biotechnology (molecular engineering, microbial and enzyme technology, biocatalysis, environmental biotechnology)

14. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
chemical technology (inorganic and organic technology, agrochemistry, oil and coal technology, fertilizers, polymer chemistry and technology, sustainable development, green chemistry, ect.)
chemical engineering (industrial equipment, process engineering, bioprocess engineering, environmental chemical engineering)
material science (optoelectronics, nanotechnology, rare-element metallurgy, corrosion, special materials for industry and medicine)

15. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
In last five years the faculty members published 1279 papers in peer review international journals
In the same time the papers authored by our staff were cited more than times.We are having the highest percentage of publishing staff at WUT (+80)

16. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Between the highest number of papers was published by:
Prof. Paweł Kafarski (67) organic and bioorganic chemistry
Prof. Katarzyna Chojnacka (50) inorganic technology
Prof. Szczepan Roszak (39) quantum chemistry
Prof. Andrzej Miniewicz (37) nanomaterials
Prof. Andrzej Sokalski (32) theoretical chemistry
Prof. Juliusz Sworakowski (30) nanomaterials
Prof. Andrzej Matynia (29) inorganic technology/chem.eng

17. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
The most cited faculty members are:
Prof. Marek Samoć (2035) non-linear optics, nanomaterials
Prof. Paweł Kafarski (1752) org. bioorganic chemistry
Prof. Barbara Lejczak (1217) org. bioorganic chemistry
Prof. Marian Kochman (1167) biochemistry
Prof. Andrzej Sokalski (885) theoretical chemistry
Prof. Tadeusz Luty (813) physicochemistry
Prof. Szczepan Roszak (805) quantum chemistry

18. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
In 2007 the most frequently cited faculty members were:
Prof. Paweł Kafarski (163) organic and bioorganic chemistry
Prof. Barbara Lejczak (93) bioorganic chemistry
Prof. Andrzej Sokalski (91) theoretical chemistry
Prof. Danuta Michalska-Fąk (83) inorganic and structural chemistry
Prof. Szczepan Roszak (74) quantum chemistry
Prof.Ilona Turowska-Tyrk (64) theoretical chemistry
Prof.Paweł Pohl (63) analytical chemistry
Prof.Andrzej Trochimczuk (58) polymer chemistry

19. FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY – AN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
So, it can be concluded that the most promising areas for the cooperation are: organic and bioorganic chemistry, theoretical chemistry, inorganic, analytical and polymer chemistry
In industrial chemistry, chemical technology and engineering the most promising areas are: inorganic technology, coal technology, surfactants, industrial catalysis, bioengineering

20. Thank you very much for your attention