Scientific interests:

• Self-assembly process of peptides and proteins,
• One- and multiphoton excited autofluorescence properties of amyloid fibrils,
• Role of peptide sequence, the secondary structure and morphology in optical properties of higher-order peptide aggregates;

Expertise:

• Solid-phase peptide synthesis,
• Development of protocols leading to the formation of amyloid fibrils,
• Atomic force microscopy (AFM),
• Absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies,
• Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy,
• Circular dichroism spectroscopy,
• Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (attenuated total-reflectance),
• Optical microscopy.

Achievements:

• 2021 - Primus contest for highly published scientific paper, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.
• 2021 - InterDocSchool project co-financed by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA within the STER Programme “Internationalisation of doctoral schools” – foreign mobility for a period of 3 months.
• 2021 - InterDocSchool project co-financed by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange NAWA within the STER Programme “Internationalisation of doctoral schools” – scholarship for the best WUST doctoral students implementing PhD in international cooperation.
• 2021 – award of the Dean of Department of Chemistry for scientific achievements.
• 2017-2019 – Master Degree students scholarship, Université Paris-Saclay (France).
• 2015 – Bionanomaterials – BioNaM scholarship for a 3-month internship abroad (SIOD GmbH).

Education:

• Currently: PhD studies in Chemical Sciences (doctoral school of WUST, Poland),
• MSc.: Molecular Nano- and Biophotonics for telecommunications and biotechnologies (ENS Paris-Saclay, France),
• MSc.: Materials Science, Advanced Functional Materials (WUST, Poland)
• Eng: Chemistry (WUST, Poland).

Contact: manuela.grelich@pwr.edu.pl