Mikołaj Janicki
Góra Group, Graduate Students
| Email: | mikolaj.janicki@pwr.edu.pl |
| Supervisor: | Robert W. Góra, PhD., DSc. |
| Office: | A3 / 220a |
| Phone: | +48 71 320 3209 |
Computational chemist with research interests in photochemistry and photophysics of microhydrated organic molecules. Mikołaj Janicki graduated from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST) where he obtained M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology in 2017. Since 2017 he is a Ph.D. student at the WUST Faculty of Chemistry. His scientific advisors are Dr. Robert W. Góra and Dr. Rafał Szabla.
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