Agnieszka Ruppert

Agnieszka Małgorzata Ruppert is a Polish professor of chemical sciences, specializing in catalysis and adsorption, catalytic processes in environmental protection, and biomass conversion. She is a researcher at Łódź University of Technology.

Academic career

In 2000, she graduated in Chemical Technology (specialization: adsorption and catalysis) from the Faculty of Chemistry of Łódź University of Technology, obtaining the degree of Master of Science in Engineering. In 2005, at the Faculty of Chemistry of Łódź University of Technology, she earned a PhD in Chemical Sciences with a specialization in adsorption and chemical catalysis, defending her dissertation entitled Study of Platinum Catalysts Supported on Binary Oxide Carriers in the Selective Reduction of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes. In 2016, she obtained her habilitation in chemical sciences based on the dissertation Synthesis and Characterization of Catalysts for the Processing of Biomass or Biomass-Derived Products into Compounds of Significant Industrial Importance. In 2025, she was awarded the title of Professor in the field of Natural Sciences and Exact Sciences, in the discipline of chemical sciences.

She completed two postdoctoral fellowships: one in the research group of Bert Weckhuysen at the Faculty of Chemistry, Utrecht University (2005–2008), and another in the groups of Prof. Ferdi Schüth and Prof. Regina Palkovits at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim (2009–2010). In 2005 she returned to Łódź University of Technology, where she workes at the Institute of General and Ecological Chemistry. She became a member of the Faculty Council and the Chemical Sciences Discipline Council. She also serves as the Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School and as the Dean’s Representative for International Students at the Faculty of Chemistry.