Dr. Jerzy Datka is the Professor of Chemistry in Jagiellonian University. His research activity is related to IR spectroscopic studies of active sites on the surfaces of catalysts, zeolites in particular, these being of importance in refinery and „fine chemistry” industry. In their IR investigations, the properties of active sites in zeolites and their interactions with reactant molecules are complemented with quantum chemistry calculations. One subject of research is acid sites in zeolites, these being catalysts of industrially most important reactions. Another subject is transition metal cations in zeolites, these by contrast being catalysts of redox reactions. Their research group has published over 200 papers in international journals, the number of their citations being over 2200 (h-index of 26). They have realized over ten national and international research grants and have visited a number of foreign laboratories as experts in IR spectroscopy, at the same time having visitors from many Polish and foreign laboratories coming for the IR spectroscopy expertise to be applied to the problems of catalysis and the chemistry of zeolites.

Inorganic Chemistry