Izabela S.Pieta received her doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry and Applied Nanoengineering from the University of Malaga in 2011. After a postdoctoral appointment at University of Waterloo she joined the MOLECULAR at Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS. Her research interest is in the area of materials structure – property relationships analysis, nanomaterials engineering and intelligent materials surface modification for catalysis and energy applications, new generation of fuels, fuels combustion and emission reduction.

Ewa Wachaczyk received bachelor's degree in Chemical Technology at Warsaw University of Technology in 2017. During her bachelor studies she's been on a 6-month long internship at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science. She is continuing her studies at the Faculty of Chemistry as a graduate student with specialization in Chemical Technology and Catalysis. Ewa has joined Waste2Fuel project as a scholarship holder and she is working on her master thesis in our group.

Alicja Kazmierczuk received a master degree in Chemistry from the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin in 2016. After graduation she took part in the UMCS internship programme “Visa on the labor market” and joined the Renishaw’s team for 5 months.  She was a PhD scholarship holder in the Waste to fuel project performing reforming study.

Marina Cortés Reyes received her doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Malaga in 2017. She was involved in the Waste2fuel Project and performed collaborative work at the University of Malaga (2017) and University of Virginia (2018). Many thanks to Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund for fully supporting this research.

Pawel Lisowski - a PhD candidate at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. He is graduated from Radom University of Technology and obtained his M.Sc. (2007) in Chemical Technology with specialization in protection of the environment and post – graduate studies in Analytical Chemistry in Industry and Environmental Protection at AGH University of Science and Technology located in Krakow, Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics. Hi is a part-time contractor in POWROTY grant.

Rafa has joined SONATA project in 2015 as a PhD scholarship holder and he is working on his PhD thesis in our group. He investigates the Ni-V catalysts for oxygenated reforming.

The National Science Centre Poland is acknowledged  for his PhD scholarship funding through project SONATA-2013/11/D/ST5/03007 ‘Second generation of biofuel and near future alternative fuels - development of stable, selective and highly active for steam reforming process’ ( SONATA scholarship contracts no. 2014/12/15 and 2015/06/01) with connected contracting agreements given to Universidad de Malaga 2012/10/11 for “DME process and material development’ and 20170000000000998 ‘Development and characterization of advanced catalytic materials’ trough Reintegration FNP 2016/1-5 ‘Waste into fuel - catalyst and process development for waste biomass valorization’.