Mirosława El Fray
West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin,
Poland
Mirosława El Fray, a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is Full Professor at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (Poland). She is also Director of the Nanotechnology Centre for Education and Research, and Head of the Department of Polymer and Biomaterials Science. She received her PhD in Polymer Technology from Szczecin University of Technology (1996) and Habilitation in Biomaterials Science from Warsaw University of Technology (2004). She was a post-doc at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, and scientific researcher at the University Bayreuth, Germany (2000-2003). In 2005 she established the Department of Biomaterials and Microbiological Technologies, currently Department of Polymer and Biomaterials Science. She completed 17 projects financed from national and international research funding bodies (NCN, NCBiR, 7FP, H2020, HE) and a number of projects in cooperation with DePuy Johnson & Johnson (UK), Uniqema/Croda/Cargill Bioindustrial, Philips (The Netherlands), Honda Europe (Germany). She co-authored over 170 publications in JCR indexed journals and holds 12 patents, including 2 from USPTO. She promoted 14 PhDs, 54 master and 24 diploma (engineering) students. She is Member of International Advisory Board of The Insitutue of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She is also a CEO of a spin-off company PolTiss sp z o.o. commercializing new injectable photocurable polymers for innovative hernia treatment.
Awards: The Royal Society fellowship at the Imperial College London, UK (2005); The West Pomerania Nobel Prize, Szczecin, PL (2016); The Fulbright STEM Impact Award at The Ohio State University, OH, USA (2019).
Her scientific background spans synthesis, characterization, biodegradation and polymer modification towards specific biomedical applications. She has made extensive contribution to the development of fatty acid-based polyesters, structure-properties relationship of various copolymers and their derivatives, including nanocomposites, chitosan, and photocurable and supramolecular networks.
