Prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Łobiński

Prof. dr hab. inż. Ryszard Łobiński graduated as engineer from the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska) in Poland in 1986, where he obtained his PhD in 1989. He is currently research director at the French National Research Center (CNRS), full professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, and honorary professor at the East China University of Technology (Nanchang, China). In the years 2015 – 2024, he was the director of the Institute of Analytical and Physical Chemistry for the Environment and Materials (IPREM) in Pau, France.

Ryszard Lobinski held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Spectroscopy and Applied Spectrometry (ISAS) in Dortmund, Germany (1990), and at the University of Antwerp (U.I.A), Belgium (1991–1994). He was as a visiting professor at GKSS (Geesthacht, Germany) and Chuo University (Tokyo, Japan), as well as an associated fellow at the Sechenov Moscow State Medical University (Russia). From 2005 to 2009, he served as Vice President and then President of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

In the early 1990s, Ryszard Lobinski was among the pioneers of analytical methods based on coupling separation techniques with plasma-source element-specific detection for speciation analysis. His groundbreaking research focused on identifying and determining the chemical forms of elements in environmental and biological systems. These contributions, which were recognized with the CNRS Silver Medal (Médaille d’Argent CNRS) in 2006, led to the emergence of metallomics—a field dedicated to comprehensively probing the interactions and functional connections of metal ions and their species with genes, proteins, metabolites, and other biomolecules in biological systems.

Ryszard Łobiński was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2007. He  received the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award in 2011 and the title  of  doctor honoris causa from the University of Huelva (Spain) in 2024.

His academic record includes over 350 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, three books, three edited journal issues, and more than 150 invited lectures at international conferences. He has supervised 38 PhD theses. In 1999, he co-founded UltraTrace Analyses Aquitaine (UT2A), a startup specializing in environmental trace metal and speciation analyses, which now employs 10 people.