Prof. Wojciech Simka, Ph.D., is an employee of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Silesian University of Technology. He serves as head of the Department of Inorganic, Analytical and Electrochemical Chemistry; head of the Corrosion Research Laboratory; and chairman of the Chemical Engineering Discipline Council. He serves or has served as the head of research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, NCN, NCBiR. His research interests are related to the modification of the surface layer of metals by electrochemical methods, particularly in terms of biomedical applications. He focuses on electrochemical oxidation, both classical and high voltage plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), of materials based on titanium, tantalum, zirconium, niobium and magnesium. His current focus is on plasma electrolytic oxidation of printed titanium implants (personalized implants and scaffolds). He is the author of more than 180 JCR-listed articles, as well as more than a dozen patents. Solutions developed by his team have been implemented in several industrial plants in Poland.
