Adam Kiersnowski studied chemical technology and materials science at Wroclaw University of Technology from 1995 to 2000. At his early career, including periods of Master (1995-2000) and doctoral (2000-2004) studies he worked on formation and properties of polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites under the supervision of Dr I. Gancarz and later, during PhD studies, Prof. J. Piglowski . These studies were focused on synthesis and crystallization of polymers in the presence of organoclay particles. In February 2005 he obtained PhD degree in Materials Science from Faculty of Materials Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology and began his academic career at Wroclaw University of Technology. His scientific interests at that time were centred on interactions between nanoparticles and macromolecules: synthetic polymers and proteins. X-ray scattering techniques became the main tool in solving structural problems. The hands-on experience in X-ray scattering has been developed in 2005 during the short, 3-month fellowship at the Institute of Textile Engineering and Polymer Materials in Bielsko-Biala (Poland). That stay was funded by Foundation for Polish Science through the program of National Visiting Grants. In 2003 The research topics related to materials and X-ray scattering underpinned a long-lasting collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP, Mainz, Germany) and also Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers at Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (IESL/FORTH Heraklion, Greece). From the very beginning, the collaboration was related to application of X-ray scattering techniques to unravel structure-function relationships in polymer-smectite nanocomposites. In 2010 Adam Kiersnowski joined the group of Physics and Interfaces at MPIP as a Marie Curie fellow and started new projects related to electroactive and semiconducting heterogeneous polymer systems for applications in, generally, organic electronics. This studies have been continued after returning to Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in 2012 and is now the mainstream of his research projects.
In recognition of the scientific achievements in 2013, Adam Kiersnowski was distinguished by Polish Academy of Sciences with a prestigious Iuvenes Wratislaviae prize. In the meantime, his efforts have been awarded at Wroclaw University of Science & Technology with Rector’s (2005, 2007, 2014 and 2017) Awards.
In 2018 Dr. Kiersnowski has been also appointed as a research associate at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden (Germany)
Selected, representative publications:
• Formation of Oriented Polar Crystals in Bulk Poly(vinylidene fluoride)/High-Aspect-Ratio Organoclay Nanocomposites / Kiersnowski A.; Chrissopoulou K.; Selter P.; Chlebosz D.; Hou B.; Lieberwirth I.; Honkimäki V.; Mezger M.;,Anastasiadis S.H.; Hansen M.R. Langmuir: 34, 2018, 13375–13386
• Formation, growth and transformations of crystalline phases in solution-cast blends of poly(3-hexylthiophene) and perylene dicarboximides / Chlebosz D.; Janasz Ł.; Janus K.; Gazinska M.; Goldeman W.; Ulanski J.; Pisula W.; Kiersnowski A. Dyes and Pigments: 140, 2017, 491-499
• Multiple Chain Packing and Phase Composition in Regioregular Poly(3-Butylthiophene) Films / Yuan Y.; Shu J.; Kolman K.; Kiersnowski A.; Bubeck C.; Zhang J.; Hansen M.R. Macromolecules: 49, 2016, 9493-9506
• Adsorption, Aggregation, and Desorption of Proteins on Smectite Particles / Kolman K.; Makowski M. M.; Golriz A.A.; Kappl M.; Pigłowski J.; Butt H.-J.; Kiersnowski A.; Langmuir : 30, 2014, 11650-11659
• New insights into the multilevel structure and phase transitions of synthetic organoclays / Kiersnowski, A.; Kolman, K.; Lieberwirth, I.; Yordanov, S.; Butt, H.-J.; Hansen M. R.; Anastasiadis, S.H. Soft Matter: 9, 2013, 2291-2301
• A Strategy for Revealing the Packing in Semi-Crystalline π-Conjugated Polymers: Crystal Structure of Bulk Poly-3-hexyl-thiophene (P3HT) / Dudenko, D.; Kiersnowski, A.; Shu, J.; Pisula, W.; Sebastiani, D.; Spiess, H.-W.; Hansen, M. R; Angewandte Chemie – International Edition: 51, 2012, 11068-11072
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