Opening of Alchemium
The modern structure of the building, excellently planned interiors creating friendly conditions to work and study, a lecture hall for 500 people, smaller auditoriums and seminar rooms, excellent conference facilities and a large exhibition space for the longest operating "Politechnika" gallery - this is how the first building of the Alchemium complex can be described in a nutshell.
As the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Małgorzata Iwona Szynkowska-Jóźwik says, 'For many years the Faculty of Chemistry had been striving for a new building complex and it was like "chasing dreams", which are now coming true, thanks to the support and efforts of many people. The entire "Alchemium" complex will have an area of 27,000 m2, which will provide the faculty members, doctoral students and students with modern conditions for work, research and the educational process in line with contemporary and future challenges in the development of chemical sciences.
The completed project cost just over PLN 64.8 million. For its implementation, the University received a subsidy from the Ministry of Education and Science in the amount of 47.5 million.
The representative and well-equipped auditorium will be named after Prof. Tadeusz Paryjczak (1932 -2019). This is in recognition of the outstanding merits of the Professor, who headed the Faculty of Chemistry for more than a dozen years - he was elected Dean of the Faculty in the years 1975-1999 (with breaks in 1981-1984 and 1990-1993). He created a leading national and international research field of adsorption and catalysis. He devoted the last years of his professional career to the issues of green chemistry, being the co-author of the first monograph on this subject in Poland. Prof. Tadeusz Paryjczak was awarded an honorary doctorate by Lodz University of Technology and West Pomeranian University of Technology.
In front of the lecture hall a commemorative plaque was placed in his memory.
Honorary Doctorate for Professor Klaus Müllen
- Professor Klaus Müllen has been one of the most prominent and influential chemists in the world for many years. His achievements set new directions of development in organic and polymer chemistry and in advanced material engineering," says Prof. Jacek Ulański, PhD supervisor, Head of the Department of Molecular Physics at the Faculty of Chemistry.
The German scientist has outstanding achievements in the field of polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology. In recent years, his main focus has been graphene materials and their potential applications in organic electronics.
Looking back at Prof. Klaus Müllen's career, one can see that it has taken a remarkably brilliant course: He completed his chemistry studies at the University of Cologne in 1969. Three years later he obtained his doctorate at the University of Basel and in 1978 his habilitation at ETH Zürich. Ten years after graduation he became a professor at the University of Cologne and then at the University of Mainz (1984). From 1989 until his retirement in 2017 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Prof. Klaus Müllen's scientific cooperation with Lodz University of Technology has lasted for 20 years. Professor Müllen has a special contribution to the project of the International Centre for Research on Innovative Biobased Materials (ICRI-BioM) of the newly established International Research Agenda, co-financed by the Foundation for Polish Science. He is currently the Chairman of the International Scientific Committee of this Centre.