About

Project coordinators

Prof.   Gary   Blanchard – head of the research group at Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University. Member of American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, and International Society for Electrochemistry. Since 2010 Associate Chair for Education. He specializes in biomimetic interfaces leading multiple academic projects, and actively supports science popularization beyond academia. Dr.   Magdalena   Osial – researcher at University of Warsaw and Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology in Poland working on nanomaterials for biomedical and industrial application. Coordinator of students’ research projects and science popularization project „Manufacture of Scientists”. She is engaged in mentoring, academic and non-academic teaching organizing educational workshops, lectures, and science events.

Fluffy Science fellows

Corbin    Livingston    – fourth-year graduate student at Michigan State University. She currently works in the Blanchard lab exploring surface fluidity of metal- phosphonate surfaces. Corbin is also a Scholarship for Undergraduate Teaching and Learning fellow, where she is working on a study looking at the motivation factors of undergraduate learning assistants and how they spend their contact time. Corbin is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Younger Chemists’ Committee (MSU), and Women in Chemistry (MSU). Daria    Więcławska    – Master student in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at the Silesian University of Technology in Poland. She has a keen interest in electrochemistry of conducting polymers and their biomedical applications. She is fascinated with new technologies, especially wearable biosensors. Greatly involved in academic life, she coorganizes and participates in many student events. In her spare time, she changes a lab coat into a bicycle or a backpack