10.2019 – present Cracow University  of Technology | Doctoral School

Disciplines: chemical engineering and materials engineering

10.2019 – present Cracow University of Economics| Cracow School of Business

Postgraduate studies: Innovative Project Management

02.2018 – 07.2019 Cracow University  of Technology | Faculty of Chemical Engineerinng and Technology

Disciplines: chemical engineering and materials engineering

Tittle: master engineer

Field of study: Chemical Technology

Specialization: Technology of polymers

11.2018 – 07.2019 AGH University of Science and Technology| Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics

Discip Postgraduate studies: Biomaterials – materials for medicine

10.2014 – 01.2018 Cracow University  of Technology | Faculty of Chemical Engineerinng and Technology

Disciplines: chemical engineering and materials engineering

Tittle: engineer

Field of study: Chemical Technology

Specialization: Technology of polymers

Interships:

• 31.05.2021 – 10.06.2021

Scientific Internship |  Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC)

• 09.2020 – 04.2021

Scientific Internship | PhotoHighTech Sp. z.o.o.

• 08.2018 – 10.2018

Scientific Internship | Jagiellonian University in Cracow

• 10.2016 – 06.2018 

Scientific Internship | Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Science

• Free-radical photopolymerization,
• Cationic photopolymerization,
• Kinetic of the light induced polymerization,
• Water-soluble photoinitiators,
• Hydrogels,
• Fiber-reinforced composites,
• Carbon nanotube nanocomposites,
• 3D printing (SLA, DLP)

Projects:

• 01.2021 – present

PRELUDIUM 19 | National Science Centre (NCN)

Contract Number: 2020/37/N/ST5/03161

Role: Principal investigator

Topic: Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of new water-soluble visible free-radical photoinitiators dedicated to obtaining microfabricated hydrogel structures as an extracellular matrix for 3D bioprinting

• 05.2021 – present

TRL 4.0. Innovation Incubator 4.0| Technology Transfer Centre CUT

Role: Principal investigator

Topic: Photocurable polymer resins for the fabrication of polymer nanocomposites by 3D-VAT printing technology

Patents:

• Patent application number: P.426896 priority date 2018-09-04 

Autors: Wiktoria Tomal, Joanna Orty, Anna Chachaj-Brekiesz, Maciej Pilch

Patent application title: New 2-amino-4-phenyl-6-methyl-benzene-1,3-dicarbonitrile derivatives, processes for their preparation, new photoinitiator systems for cationic, radical, thiol-en and hybrid photopolymerization and the use of new 2-amino-4-derivatives phenyl-6-methylbenzene-1,3-dicarbonitrile.

Patent owner: Cracow University of Technology

• Patent application number: P.433603  priority date 2020-04-20

Authors: Wiktoria Tomal, Joanna Ortyl, Anna Chachaj-Brekiesz.

Patent owner: Cracow University of Technology

Patent application title: New 2-amino-4-phenyl-6-methyl-benzene-1,3-dicarbonitrile derivatives, processes for their preparation, new photoinitiator systems for cationic, radical, thiol-en and hybrid photopolymerization and the use of new 2-amino-4-derivatives phenyl-6-methylbenzene-1,3-dicarbonitrile.

1. Tomal, W.; Ortyl, J. Water-Soluble Photoinitiators in Biomedical Applications. Polymers 2020, 12, 1073. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12051073 

2. Tomal W., Chachaj-Brekiesz A., Popielarz R., Ortyl J. Multifunctional Biphenyl Derivatives as Photosensitisers in Various Types of Photopolymerization Processes, Including IPN Formation, 3D Printing of Photocurable Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) Fluorescent Composites, RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 32162-32182, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA04146G

3. Tomal W., Pilch M., Chachaj-Brekiesz A., Galek M., Morlet-Savary F., Dietlin C., Lalevée J., Ortyl J. Photoinitiator-Catalyst Systems Based on Meta-Terphenyl Derivatives as Photosensitisers of Iodonium and Thianthrenium Salts for Visible Photopolymerization in 3D Printing Processes. Polymer Chemistry, 2020, 11, 4604-4621. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0PY00597E   

4. Tomal, W.; Pilch, M.; Chachaj-Brekiesz, A.; Ortyl, J. Development of New High-Performance Biphenyl and Terphenyl Derivatives as Versatile Photoredox Photoinitiating Systems and Their Applications in 3D Printing Photopolymerization Processes. Catalysts 2019, 9, 827. https://doi.org/10.3390/catal9100827 

5. Szczęch, M.; Łopuszyńska, N.; Tomal, W.; Jasiński, K.; Węglarz W.P.; Warszyński. P.; Szczepanowicz, K. Nafion-Based Nanocarriers for Fluorine Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Langmuir 2020, 36, 32, 9534-9539, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01512 

6. Szczepanowicz, K.; Kruk, T.; Świątek, W.; Bouzga, A.M.; Simon, Ch.R.; Warszyński, P. Poly(l-glutamic acid)-g-poly(ethylene glycol) external layer in polyelectrolyte multilayer films: Characterization and resistance to serum protein adsorption. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 2018, 166, 295-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.03.020 

7. Tomal, W.; Świergosz, T.; Pilch, M.; Kasprzyk, W.; Ortyl, J. New horizons for carbon dots: quantum nano-photoinitiating catalysts for cationic photopolymerization and three-dimensional (3D) printing under visible light, Polymer Chemistry, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1PY00228G