Kinga Szkaradek, Ph.D.

Kinga Szkaradek completed her Ph.D. at Wrocław University of Science and Technology in 2025. Her doctoral research focused on photoinduced charge and electron transfer in nucleobase pairs and their prebiotic precursors, under the supervision of Robert W. Góra and Jiří Šponer. Her work combined excited-state calculations with the analysis of photodeactivation mechanisms.

Doctoral thesis

Theoretical studies on photoinduced charge and electron transfer processes in nucleobase pairs and their prebiotic precursors.

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, 2025. Successfully defended in 2025.

Full thesis, abstracts and examination documents in the Wrocław University of Science and Technology Public Information Bulletin (BIP)

Shared publications

1. Kamila Lupinska, Kinga E. Szkaradek, Kacper Parafiniuk, Robert Góra, Piotr Fita, Yann Bretonnière, Chantal Andraud, Lech Sznitko. Efficient optical photoswitching of benzyloxy-substituted TCF-based D–π–A molecules. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2025.
2. Kinga Szkaradek, Robert W. Góra. Theoretical insight into photodeactivation mechanisms of adenine–uracil and adenine–thymine nucleobase pairs. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2024, 26, 27807-27816.
3. Marta Dudek, Marco Deiana, Kinga Szkaradek, Mikołaj J. Janicki, Ziemowit Pokładek, Robert W. Góra, Katarzyna Matczyszyn. Light-Induced Modulation of Chiral Functions in G-Quadruplex–Photochrome Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021, 12, 9436-9441.
4. Kinga E. Szkaradek, Petr Stadlbauer, Jiří Šponer, Robert W. Góra, Rafał Szabla. UV-induced hydrogen transfer in DNA base pairs promoted by dark nπ* states. Chemical Communications, 2020.