Vice-Rector for Science
Professor Łukasz Albrecht Ph.D., D.Sc.
90-924 Lodz, Poland, 10/12 Ks. I. Skorupki Street
phone: +48 42 631 20 04, +48 42 631 20 03
fax +48 42 631 29 33
e-mail: vrector.science@adm.p.lodz.pl
Biographical note
Łukasz Albrecht graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry. He completed his degree in the chemistry of biologically important compounds in 2004. His doctoral thesis, which he defended five years later, was recognized with the Award of the Prime Minister and the Sigma-Aldrich and Polish Chemical Society Award. In 2015 he was awarded his postdoctoral degree (doktor habilitowany) in chemical sciences, and four years later full professorship . He completed his postdoctoral fellowship as a fellow of the Foundation for Polish Science Kolumb programme in the research group of professor Karl Anker Jørgensen at Aarhus University, Denmark.
In 2013, more than three years later, he returned to the Institute of Organic Chemistry, TUL. The grant received from NCBiR under the Lider programme provided the opportunity to form a new research group to study chiral organocatalysts in asymmetric catalysis.
He has co-authored more than 90 publications in JCR journals and several book chapters (bibliometric indicators: index h= 26, his publications have been cited more than 3300 times). In 2017-2019 he served as Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, TUL, and since 2019 he has chaired the Council for Academic Degrees in the disciplines of chemical sciences, chemical engineering, food science and nutrition technology. He has been the principle investigator in 7 research grants from the National Science Centre (Opus, Sonata Bis, Sheng), Foundation for Polish Science (Homing Plus), and the National Centre for Research and Development (Lider).
Since 2019 he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Center for Molecular and Macromolecular Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Łódź. He has supervised two doctoral dissertations that have already been successfully defended and currently is supervising further six. His research activity has been recognized with many awards. He is a laureate of the Włodzimierz Kołos Scientific Award of the 3rd Chapter of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Nagroda Naukowa im. Włodzimierza Kołosa III Wydziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk), Warsaw University of Technology Medal for Early-Stage Researchers (Medal Młodego Uczonego Politechniki Warszawskiej), the Scientific Award of the Mieczysław Mąkosz Foundation for Early-Stage Researchers (Nagroda Naukowej Fundacji Wspierania Młodych Naukowców im. Mieczysława Mąkoszy) and the Award for outstanding contribution to the development of science for early-stage researchers based in the Łódzkie Voivodeship (Nagroda za wybitne osiągnięcia przyczyniające się do rozwoju nauki dla młodych uczonych pracujących na terenie województwa łódzkiego). He was awarded the scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Early-Stage Researchers (stypendium Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego dla Wybitnych młodych naukowców). He was also a finalist of the 14th edition of the Polityka Science Awards (Nagroda Naukowa Polityki).
The research conducted by professor Łukasz Albrecht concerns one of the most important strands of contemporary organic chemistry, i.e. asymmetric catalysis. The research deals with the synthesis and use of catalysts of strictly defined structure. His research group design, modify, and use them in the synthesis of biologically important compounds. Their findings can provide innovative tools for the preparation of new drugs, pesticides, and other organic compounds of high utility.