POB3 Research Seminar – event report
On Friday, May 22, 2026, the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation of the Silesian University of Technology hosted the Research Seminar of the 3rd Priority Research Area (POB3), organized within the framework of the “Excellence Initiative – Research University” programme.
The event was initiated by DSc Eng Alicja Kazek-Kęsik, Professor at SUT, from the Department of Inorganic, Analytical and Electrochemical Chemistry and Coordinator of POB3, together with Prof. DSc Eng Marcin Lutyński from the Department of Geoengineering and Raw Materials Extraction, Coordinator of POB6.
The seminar guests, speakers and principal discussants were Prof. Oskar Paris and PhD Eng Dawid Gajda.
Prof. Oskar Paris is a distinguished scientist and academic affiliated with Montanuniversität Leoben (Austria), former research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Germany), and a member of numerous scientific committees, including the Synchrotron Radiation Beamline Committee at the ESRF in Grenoble (France).
Prof. Oskar Paris delivered a lecture entitled “Towards sustainable nanoporous systems for energy storage and water treatment: insights from in-situ X-ray and neutron scattering”.
PhD Eng Dawid Gajda is a graduate of the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Mining, Safety Engineering and Industrial Automation. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bureau of Economic Geology within the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin (USA). His research interests focus on underground hydrogen storage.
PhD Eng Dawid Gajda presented a lecture entitled “Fracture mechanics of reservoir rocks and wellbore cement in H2 environments”.
The seminar and discussion session were chaired by Krzysztof Tomiczek, PhD Eng, Assistant Professor at SUT from the Department of Geoengineering and Raw Materials Extraction and Co-Coordinator of POB6.1. The topics presented generated considerable interest among participants, and the discussion proved so engaging that the meeting lasted over two hours, despite originally being scheduled for ninety minutes.
Following the seminar, the guests, accompanied by DSc Eng Anna Kaźmierczak-Bałata, Professor at SUT from the Department of Applied Physics, visited the laboratories of the Institute of Physics, where they met, among others, DSc Eng Maciej Krzywiecki, Professor at SUT and Head of the Laboratory of Electron Spectroscopy and Functional Materials.
