Dr hab. Adam Kubas is a Polish physical chemist and since 1 October 2023 serves as Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry (IChF) of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His work combines theoretical and computational physical chemistry with applications in molecular electronics, reactivity modeling, electron transfer and bio-inspired systems. Kubas earned an MSc at Adam Mickiewicz University, completed a PhD (2012) in Germany at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, followed by postdoctoral work at UCL and a Max-Planck fellowship.

Dr. Joanna Jankowska is a theoretical chemist at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw whose research focuses on non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) and time-resolved photo-induced phenomena in molecules, nanomaterials and hybrid systems. She applies and develops computational methods to study processes such as molecular photoswitching, excited-state proton transfer (ESPT), proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET), and the dynamics of photo-generated charges in semiconducting or photovoltaic materials. 

Dr. Przemysław Gaweł is a Polish chemist specializing in organic electronics and functional carbon-rich molecular materials. He earned his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry at ETH Zürich (2012-2015) under Prof. François Diederich, focusing on cumulene-based synthetic materials. He subsequently worked as a post‐doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Harry L. Anderson at University of Oxford, where his team contributed to the landmark synthesis of the sp-hybridised carbon allotrope cyclo[18]carbon. 

In Poland, he heads a research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry (PAN) (IChO PAN) in Warsaw, working on organic optoelectronics, supramolecular chemistry and materials science. Recently, he has taken on a leadership role at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw (CeNT UW) where he leads the newly established Organic Electronics Laboratory dedicated to “molecule-to-device” research.