Jolanta Swiatowska

Research Director, CNRS – Chimie ParisTech, PSL University, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, Paris, France

WHO AM I

I am a Research Director at CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), Chimie ParisTech, PSL University in France. I received my PhD in 2003 from AGH University of Science and Technology, in Kraków, Poland. I was working as a PhD at Ghent University in Belgium in 2000 and as a postdoc at CNRS, Chimie ParisTech, from 2005 to 2008. I obtained my habilitation in chemical science from Sorbonne University, Paris, in 2016. I am leading and participating in different projects on conception, durability and degradation of different materials used in various brands of industry such as the automobile and aeronautic industries and civil engineering. My research interests include the reactivity of metals, alloys and oxides in liquid and gaseous environments, the mechanisms of surface modifications by processes of passivation, adsorption, corrosion and/or aging induced by electrochemical reactions using advanced surface methods of material characterization. I am an author of more than 90 scientific papers and over 120 conference presentations. I have supervised over 40 students (17 PhD) and I provide master classes in France and China. I am also a Deputy Director of Doctoral School of Chimie Physique et Chimie Analytique de Paris Centre - ED 388 for University PSL.

WHAT WILL I TALK ABOUT

I will briefly present to you my career path from Kraków to Paris. I will be happy to share with you some technological and scientific challenges in the development of metals and alloys used in the aeronautical and automobile industries and their durability. Why and how REACH* regulations need to be respected when designing new or rethinking old materials? How can fundamental studies contribute to applied research at the micro- or nano-metric level? 

*Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals