Ph.D. Aleksandra Pilch-Wróbel

Dr Aleksandra Pilch-Wróbel is an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Biomedical Physicochemistry Division. She holds an MSc in Chemistry from the University of Wrocław (2013) and a PhD in Chemistry from the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research (2020).

She has contributed to several major research projects, including the H2020-FETOPEN project "Nanoparticles-based 2D Thermal Bioimaging Technologies Nano TBTech" (2018-2021) and the OPUS14 project "Microrobots Controlled by Multifunctional Optical Tweezers for Cancer Hyperthermia" (2018-2021). She was also a contractor on the NCN Sonata Bis project "Lanthanide-doped Nanocolloidal Core-Shell Structures: Synthesis and Modulation of Spectroscopic Properties" (2013-2018).

In 2018, she became the principal investigator of the Preludium project "Tuning the Luminescent Properties of NaYF4:Yb³⁺, Ln³⁺ (Ln=Ho³⁺, Er³⁺, Tm³⁺) by Ce³⁺ Codoping."

She has received several prestigious awards, including the ETIUDA doctoral scholarship (2018), the START 2020 scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science, and two grants for short-term scientific missions funded by the EU. Aleksandra has completed professional training at the University of Turku, Finland, focusing on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) in upconversion nanoparticles.

Her research focuses on the synthesis, characterization, and application of lanthanide-doped luminescent nanoparticles, particularly in areas such as FRET phenomena, pH sensing, and optical spectroscopy. Currently, as the principal investigator of an NSC Sonata project, she is exploring upconversion resonant energy transfer to pH-sensitive dyes for novel nanoparticle-based sensing technologies.