Proffessor Karol Grela is Head of the group of Organometallic chemistry applied to organic synthesis. Ph.D, Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences (ICHO PAS), Warsaw, Poland, 1998 Post-doc, MPI, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany, 1999-2000 Habilitation, ICHO PAS, 2003 Full Professor, 2008 Foundation for Polish Science Fellowship, 1998 Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 1999 Polish Academy of Sciences WÅ‚odzimierz KoÅ‚os Prize, 2003 Maria SkÅ‚odowska-Curie and Wilhelm Klemm Lectureship Award of the German Chemical Society, 2007 Minister of Science and Higher Education Prize, 2010 Foundation for Polish Science Prize, 2014 French Chemical Society Prize, 2015 Kostanecki Medal of the Polish Chemical Society, 2016 Member of the Editorial Board of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, from 2017 Member of the Editorial Board of Chemistry—an European Journal, from 2014 Member of the International Advisory Board of Organometallics, 2010-2012 Member of the International Advisory Board, Czech Chemical Society, Organic Division, from 2012 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Polpharma SA, from 2013 Number of papers published: 130+ Hirsh Index: 38 Scopus Author ID: 6603927545

Although our current research is mainly focused on transition metal complexes, with special emphasis on olefin metathesis catalysts (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, 4038; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 6786), our specialization cannot be called a truly organometallic or coordination chemistry. Instead, our research is mainly concerned on application of these complexes in organic synthesis of natural products and pharmaceutically relevant compounds, in sustainable production (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 6786), applications of aqueous media (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 442), etc.