Prof. Małgorzata Barańska, Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow has been granted the Prof. Wojciech Świętosławski’s Award. This distinction has been awarded since 2013 by the Warsaw Branch of the Polish Chemical Society (PTCh) for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of chemistry, chemical technology and related sciences.

The jury awarded Prof. Małgorzata Barańska for her special contribution to the development of Polish chemistry, both in the research and popularizing sense.

The laureate works for the Department of Chemical Physics of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University, which she has headed since 2018. For 10 years she has also been working at the Jagiellonian Center for Drug Development (JCET), which she co-founded and where she heads one of the three research groups – the Raman Spectroscopy Group. She obtained all scientific titles at the Jagiellonian University. In 2003-2006, she realized a post-doc studies at the Institute of Plant Analysis (Germany). Since 2016, she has been the chief editor of the “Spectrochimica Acta A” journal, and since 2017 the director of the CLIRSPEC (UK) scientific society.