Daria Podstawczyk, PhD

Assistant professor

room 13 and 25 in C-6 building
tel.: 48 71 320 34 37
email: daria.podstawczyk@pwr.edu.pl 

Scientific interests

• 3D printing/bioprinting
• antimicrobial 3D-printed structures
• hydrogels and their precursors
• immobilization of biomass in hydrogels
• green synthesis of nanoparticles
• membrane processes for wastewater treatment

International experience

• 01.04.2018-31.05.2018 - Visiting research scholar at Texas A&M University
  Fellowship financed by Texas A&M University and the Wroclaw Center for Biotechnology of pro-quality grant of the Leading National Research Center for a scientific visit at prof. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie’s Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips Laboratories, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA

Current affiliation (2016 – current)

Research assistant at Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Process Engineering and Technology of Polymer and Carbon Materials

Education

• 2012-2016 Chemical engineering
  Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, doctoral studies, PhD degree
  Thesis title: Application of modified adsorbents of biological origin for the removal of selected contaminants from aqueous solutions
  
• 2011-2012 Biotechnology, major: Biotechnological processes
  Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, master's degree
  Thesis title: Selection of membrane for the separation of aroma compounds by pervaporation
  
• 2009-2013 Chemical engineering
  Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, bachelor’s degree engineering studies
  Thesis title: Mass transport through pervaporative membrane
  
• 2007-2011 Biotechnology
  Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, bachelor’s degree engineering studies
  Thesis title: Characteristic of aggregation properties of phospholipids and proteins at the air-water interface

Participating in international and national research projects

Current research projects

• R&D supervisor in the project No. POIR.04.01.04-00-0047/18 “Towards the circular economy - technologies of water and nutrients recovery from the secondary effluent” co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development and the European Union under the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 ( 02.2019-; company partner: Municipal Water and Sewage Company S.A. in Wroclaw).
  The project aims at developing an integrated system of water and nutrients reclamation from secondary effluents at the Wrocław “Janówek” Wastewater Treatment Plant (WOŚ), in accordance with the assumptions of the circular economy. The project includes the recycling of secondary effluents with the simultaneous production of purified water and the recovery of valuable nutrients (organic compounds and magnesium) in the form of concentrated retentates from individual membrane unit operations.

• Supervisor in the project No. UMO-2016/23/D/ST8/01267 “Synthesis and physicochemical and mechanical characterization of three-dimensional composite structures laden with antimicrobial agents” funded by the National Science Centre (from 2017-09). The project relates to the synthesis of new biocompatible composite structures containing various antimicrobial agents with using direct ink writing (3D printing).

• Contractor in the project “Synthesis and physicochemical characteristics of novel hybrid polyelectrolyte microcapsules with entrapped unicellular algae” funded by the National Science Centre (from 2017- 03), supervised by dr. Anna Dawiec-Liśniewska
• Contractor in the project No. POIR.04.01.04-00-0109/17 “Use of nitric acid to improve wastewater treatment efficiency and plant energy balance” co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development and the European Union under the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 R&D supervised by dr. Stanisław Miodoński (company partner: Municipal Water and Sewage Company S.A. in Wroclaw)

Completed projects

• Project LIDER Towards better quality of effluent - two step deammonification with bioagumentation of activated sludge with ammonia oxidizing bacteria funded by The National Centre for Research and Development (from 2017-10), contractor
• Project Study on the properties of iron and copper nanoparticles synthesized by means of catechin and gallic acid funded by the National Science Centre (from 2016-10), supervisor
• Project Antimicrobial properties of polymer structures with Ag nanoparticles produced by 3D printing funded by the Leading National Research Center (from 2017-03), supervisor
• Project Experimental research and modelling of aroma separation in pervaporation process funded by the National Science Centre (from 2011 to 2014), contractor
• Project Membrane contactor-based removal of ammonia from water and waste heat integrated boiler water make-up production by means of pervaporation commissioned by the Swiss company ALSTOM Ltd. (from 2013-05 to 2014-04), contractor
• Project Long term tests of membrane contactor-based removal of ammonia from water commissioned by the Swiss company ALSTOM Ltd. (from 2014-10 to 2015-04), contractor

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0003-0950-6836

• Abasi, S., Davis Jr., Podstawczyk, D., R., Guiseppi-Elie, A., Distribution of water states within Poly(HEMA-co-HPMA)-based hydrogels, Polymer (2019) 185, 121978 (IF 3.771).
• Podstawczyk, D., Pawłowska, A., Bastrzyk A., Oszmiański, J., Reactivity of (+)-catechin with copper(II) ions: an insight into mechanism of green synthesis of size-controlled copper nanoparticles, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering (2019) 7, 17535-17543 (IF 6.970).
• Abasi, S., Podstawczyk, D., Sherback, A., Guiseppi-Elie, A., Biotechnical properties of poly(HEMA-co-HPMA) hydrogels are governed by distribution among water states, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2019) 5, 4994-5004 (IF 4.511).
• Skrzypczak, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Podstawczyk, D., Mikula, K., Chojnacka, K., Immobilization of biosorbent in sodium alginate /carboxymethylcellulose: biocomposite as a new environmentally friendly fertilizer for micronutrients delivery, Journal of Cleaner Production (2019) 241, 1-12 (IF 6.395).
• Jurga, A., Janiak, K.L., Ratkiewicz, K., Podstawczyk, D., An overview of blackwater data collection from space life support systems and its comparison to a terrestrial wastewater dataset, Journal of Environmental Management (2019) 241, 198-210 (IF 4.005).
• Dawiec-Lisniewska, A., Pokomeda, K., Skrzypczak D., Ligas B., Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Characteristic of aroma compounds recovery from binary and ternary (alcohol-ester-water) aqueous solutions with use of pervaporation. Journal of Molecular Liquids (2018) 271, 756-768 (IF 4.513).
• Dawiec-Lisniewska, A., Szumny, A., Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Concentration of natural aroma compounds from fruit juice hydrolates by pervaporation in laboratory and semi-technical scale. Part 1. Base study, Food Chemistry (2018) 258, 63-70 (IF 4.946).
• Podstawczyk, D., Mitkowski, T., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Witek-Krowiak, A., Concentration of natural aroma compounds from fruit juice hydrolates by pervaporation in laboratory and semi-technical scale. Part 2. Economic analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production (2017) 165, 509-519 (IF 5.715).
• Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Chrobot, P., Skrzypczak, D., Removal of ammonium and orthophosphates from reject water generated during dewatering of digested sewage sludge in municipal wastewater treatment plant using adsorption and membrane contactor system, Journal of Cleaner Production (2017) 161, 277-287 (IF 5.715).
• Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Novel nanoparticles modified composite eco-adsorbents - A deep insight into kinetics modelling using numerical surface diffusion and artificial neural network models, Chemical Engineering Research and Design (2016), 109, 1-17 (IF 2.538).
• Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Dawiec, A., Bhatnagar, A., Biosorption of copper(II) ions by flax meal: Smpirical modeling and process optimization by response surface methodology (RSM) and artificial neural network (ANN) simulation, Ecological Engineering (2015), 83, 364-379 (IF 2.914). (one of the most cited papers in the journal since 2015)
• Witek-Krowiak, A., Chojnacka, K., Podstawczyk, D., Dawiec-Liśniewska, A., Pokomeda, K., Application of Response Surface Methodology and Artificial Neural Network methods in modeling and optimization of biosorption process, Bioresource Technology (2014), 160, 150-160 (IF 5.651).
• Podstawczyk, D., Witek-Krowiak, A., Chojnacka, K., Sadowski, Z., Biosorption of malachite green by eggshells: mechanism identification and process optimization, Bioresource Technology (2014), 160, 161-165 (IF 5.651).