Marcin Stępień

Professor Marcin Stępień was born in 1977 in Wrocław, Poland. He received his Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Wrocław under the guidance of Prof. L. Latos-Grażyński. Following a period of postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. J. L. Sessler (University of Texas), he continued to work at the University of Wrocław, where he completed his habilitation (2010) and became a titular professor (2017). His research team explores the synthetic chemistry of nanocarbons and their heterocyclic analogues, with a focus on unusual chromophores, curved aromatics, and open-shell organic systems.