A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Adam Pron on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday – a Career of Beautiful Science from Conducting Polymers to Active Molecular Materials and Quantum Dots

Dear Colleagues,

Professor Pron was born in 1951 and educated in Poland. In 1980, he completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) under the supervision of Alan G. MacDiarmid, Nobel Prize laureate of 2000. In the same year, he returned to his native country, Poland, and started working at the Warsaw University of Technology where he obtained his habilitation in 1988 and became full professor in 1993. In the period of 1989–1996, he shared his time between AGH University of Technology in Krakow and Warsaw University of Technology. In 1991–1993, he served as an advisor in an industrial company, “UNIAX” Corporation, in Santa Barbara, California, where he  closely collaborated with Alan J. Heeger, another Nobel Prize laureate. In 1998, he moved to the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA, presently Atomic and Alternatives Energies Commission) in Grenoble. In March 2012, he retired from CEA and became full-time professor at the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland. In 2002, professor Pron obtained the Prize of Polish Foundation for Research—the most prestigious scientific award in Poland. In 2011, he received the Zawidzki Medal—the highest distinction in Poland in physical chemistry. In 2019, he was awarded the Sniadecki Medal—the highest distinction given to a Polish chemist by the Polish Chemical Society. Since 2008, Professor Proń has been an editor of Synthetic Metals—an Elsevier journal devoted to organic and carbon-based electroactive materials. Professor Proń has published over 340 papers, many of them in very prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials, Nano Letter, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Communications, Nanoscale, Chemical Society Reviews, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Inorganic Chemistry and many others. He is also co-author of several international patents on new functional materials. In the past, he has succeeded in obtaining several important grants from governmental grant agencies as well as purely industrial grants from such companies as Hitachi, Hutchinson and others. Thus far, he has supervised 18 PhD students in Poland and France. Among his former students, there are university professors in Poland, France, Brazil and India, as well as researchers in governmental laboratories and industrial R&D centers in Poland, France and the USA.

His research interests  involve materials chemistry, physical organic chemistry and, more precisely, elaboration of new organic semiconductors and functionalized inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals  (different type of quantum dots) in view of their application in organic and hybrid (organic/inorganic) electronics and optoelectronics, electrochemical devices and in biosciences.

Prof. Dr. Pierre Audebert
Guest Editor

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