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Ryszard Jankowiak
Professor of Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry Phone: 785-532-6785
Kansas State University Fax: 785-532-6666
Manhattan, KS 66506 E-mail:
Research Affiliate: PARC, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
Education and Training:
- SN College, Poznan, Poland, 1967-1969, B.S. Mathematics
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 1969-1974, M.S., Solid State Physics
- Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, 1976-1981, Ph.D., Condensed Matter Physics and Spectroscopy.
Professional Experience:
1981, Assistant Professor, Technical University of Gdansk, Institute of Physics, Gdansk, Poland
1981, Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, Camerino University, Camerino, Italy
1981-84, Postdoctoral Fellow (with Professor H. Bässler), Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
1984-85, Associate Professor (“Gast Dozent”) at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany
1985-87, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ames Laboratory USDOE, Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa
1988-89, Associate Scientist, Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT), ISU, Ames, Iowa
1990-1998, Scientist, Institute for Physical Research and Technology, ISU, Ames, Iowa
1999-2005, Senior Scientist, Ames Laboratory USDOE, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
2002-2006, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University
2005- Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Professional Societies
- American Association of the Advancement of Science
- Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
- American Chemical Society
- Fellow of the International Union Against Cancer
Selected Honors
- Iowa State University Professional and Scientific Excellence Award, 1993.
- International Cancer Technology Transfer Award; Geneva, Switzerland, 1993.
- R&D 100 Award 1998; for the Development of the CE-FLN System.
- 2010 Outstanding Senior Scientist, K-State Sigma Xi Society K-State Chapter.
Recent Honors Earned by Students in my Research Group
- Mike Reppert, Goldwater Scholarship (2007).
- Mike Reppert, Kansas State University Presidential Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Student in Research (2008).
- Mike Reppert, Fulbright Fellowship; to work at Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
(9 months, 2009 – 2010).
- Mike Reppert, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2009).
- Bhanu Neupane, Graduate PLU Chemistry Research Award, 2010.
- Isaac Fees, Fellowship to work during the summer of 2011in Estonia, Germany and Austria.
- Khem Acharya, Graduate PLU Chemistry Research Award, 2011.
Other Relevant Experience:
- Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials; 2011-present.
- Research Affiliate of the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC); Washington University, Saint Louis, MO, 2010-present.
- Kansas State University Research Foundation, Executive Committee, 2009-present.
- Editorial Advisory Board Member of Scientific Journal International (SJI); 2007-present.
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2008-present.
- Prevennia, LLC; Board of Directors, 2007-2010, Las Vegas, Nevada.
- Kansas State University Research Foundation, Board of Directors; 2007-present.
- Symposium Chair and Organizer, University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2006; 81st Annual Meeting “Science and the Next Generation”, Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of the AAAS.
- Prevention, LLC; Board of Directors, 2005-present; Omaha, NE.
- Honorary Editorial Board Member: Analytical Chemistry Insights, 2005-present.
- Workshop Planner: Report on the Imaging Workshop for the Genomes to Life Program, USDOE Office of Science, 2002.
- Member, Program Committee of SPIE International Symposium on Industrial and Environmental Monitors and Biosensors, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1998.
- Co-chair, SPIE's OE/LASE '91 Conference on Optical Methods for Ultrasensitive Detection and Analysis: Techniques and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, 1991.
- Member of many DOE, NSF, and NIH review panels.
- Invited speaker at many conferences/workshops/symposia around the world.
Other services at K-State, Leadership and Outreach Activities:
- Faculty Salaries and Fringe Benefits Committee, KSU, 2008-2010
- KSU Laser safety representative, KSU, 2008-present.
- Chair of the Outstanding Senior & Junior Scientist Award K-State Sigma Xi Society; 2010-present.
- Gave many seminars in US and various European countries to attract graduate students to K-State.
- Organizes yearly Chemistry Symposia (since 2006) held at K-State for high school students and their
teachers from Kansas.
- Organizes MathPhysChem symposia for students from Manhattan Middle Schools, 2010-
- In 2011 I have initiated a new series of yearly Chemistry and Physics symposia (on energy related issues supported by NSF ARRA and NSF EPSCoR grants) for Middle School students from Kansas.
- I serve on several Ph.D. committees in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics.
Recent Graduate and Undergraduate students:
Graduate students: Satoshi Matsuzaki (Ph.D. 2004), Nhan Dang (Ph.D. 2005), Nenad Grubor (Ph.D. 2005), Abdulillah Dawoud (Ph.D. 2006), Kerry Riley (Ph.D. 2006), Alex Price (supervised jointly with C. Culbertson, 2009), Mausam Kalita (supervised jointly with S. Bossmann, 2011); Bhanu Neupane (Ph.D. October 2011), Khem Acharya (Ph.D. October 2011).
Current graduate students: Bhanu Neupane and Khem Acharya (both will graduate in November, 2011), Chen Lin (4th year), Mukund Koraila (2nd year), and Adam Kell (1st year). Damit Randika will join my group in January 2012.
Recent undergraduate students: Taryn Maier (currently at KU); Slava Zakjevskii (currently at FSU); David Harwood (KSU); Mike Reppert (currently at MIT); Isaac Fees (currently at KU) and several REU undergraduate students from various US colleges supervised during summer in 2006-2011.
Recent Postdoctoral Associates:
Dr. Ximao Feng, 2009- present; Department of Physics, K-State, Manhattan, KS
Dr. Nhan Dang, 2005-2009; Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Dr . Yuri Markushin, 2002-2007; Laboratory of Biopolymer Modification, Novosibirsk, Russia
Dr. Beata Miksa, 2006-2007, Polish Academy of Sciences, CMMS, Lodz, Poland
Dr. Raja Chinnapann, 2006-2007, University of Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Dr. Tonu Reinot, 2004-2005, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Dr. Valter Zazubovich, 2004-2005, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
In addition during 2005-2011, while at K-State, ten scientists (leaders in their fields) from US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Estonia, and Holland visited my laboratories at K-State.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors:
Ph.D., Prof. Jan Kalinowski, Technical University of Gdansk, Department of Physics, Poland
Postdoctoral, Prof. Heinz Bässler, Phillips University, Physical Chemistry, Marburg, Germany
Postdoctoral, Prof. Gerald J. Small, Dep. of Chemistry, Iowa State University/Ames Laboratory, USDOE
Collaborators (outside KSU):
Dr. M. Seibert (Research Fellow), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; Prof. R. Blankenship, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO; Prof. M. Richter, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Prof. Petra Fromme, Department of Biochemistry, Arizona State University; Prof. V. Zazubovich, Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Prof. E. Krausz, Australian National University, Australia; Prof. E. Cavalieri, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; Dr. R. Picorel, Estacion Experimental Aula Dei (CSIC), Zarogoza, Spain; Prof. E. Rogan, Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, Omaha, NE; Prof. A. Holzwarth, Max Planck Institute, Mülheim, Germany); Dr. S. Santabarbara and Dr. Giuseppe Zucchelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biofisica Milan, Italy; Dr. Dror Noy, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Prof. W. Chang, Beijing Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Publications (see attached list)
RJ published about 200 papers in the following Academic Journals: Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, BBA, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Biophysical Chemistry, Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research, Chemical Physics, Chemical Reviews, Chemical Physics Letters, Chemical and Biological Interactions, Chemical Research in Toxicology, Electrophoresis, Electrochemical Communications, Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, JACS, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Luminescence, Journal of Chromatography, Journal of European Ceramic Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Materials Science and Engineering A, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Photosynthesis Research, PNAS, Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds, Physical Review B, The Prostate, and Science.
Conference papers presented and invited talks and seminars (see attached list)
RJ presented numerous invited talks and seminars (see attached list) at various universities in Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland, Great Britain, Holland, Poland, Spain, the United States, Scotland, Taiwan, China, and Japan, and participated at about 100 national/international meetings/conferences in various areas of physical chemistry, physics, and biochemistry/biophysics.
Funding at K-State; since 2005-present (Total: $2,145.007)
Source of Support: US Department of Energy (Basic Energy Sciences)
Total Award Amount: $480,000
Total Award Period Covered: 9/1/11-8/31/14
Project/Proposal Title: Resonant and Non-resonant Hole-burning and Delta Fluorescence Line-narrowing Study of BCh1s in Excitonically Coupled Photosynthetic Systems
Source of Support: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Total Award Amount: $380,000
Total Award Period Covered: 7/15/09-6/30/13
Project/Proposal Title: Comparative Studies of Electronic Structure and Dynamic Process in Model Photosynthetic Complexes Using Spectral Hole Burning and Single Complex Spectroscopies
Source of Support: University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (NSF EPSCoR)
Total Award Amount: $57,518
Total Award Period Covered: 10/01/09-09/30/14
Project/Proposal Title: Nanotechnology for Renewable Energy
Source of Support: Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation (KTEC)
Total Award Amount: $37,493
Total Award Period Covered: 6/30/08-12/31/11
Project/Proposal Title: Excitation Energy Transfer in Natural Photosynthetic Complexes and Chlorophyll Trefoils: Hole Burning and Single Complex/Trefoil Spectroscopic Studies
Source of Support: US Department of Energy (DOE)
Total Award Amount: $450,000
Total Award Period Covered: 7/1/08-12/31/11
Project/Proposal Title: Excitation Energy Transfer in Natural Photosynthetic Complexes and Chlorophyll Trefoils: Hole Burning and Single Complex/Trefoil Spectroscopic Studies
Source of Support: US Department of Health and Human Services (NIH)
Total Award Amount: $11,075
Total Award Period Covered: 12/1/10-11/30/11
Project/Proposal Title: Sequence Distribution of Tobacco Carcinogen – DNA Adducts
Source of Support: US Department of Energy (DOE)
Total Award Amount: $20,000
Total Award Period Covered: 12/15/2007 - 12/1/2008
Project/Proposal title: Hole-burned Spectra
Source of Support: US Department of Defense (DOD)
Total Award Amount: $6,000
Total Award Period Covered: 6/2/2008 - 9/30/2008
Project/Proposal Title: Exploratory Luminescence Studies of the Silicon Nitride Materials Using Various Laser Excitation Sources
Source of Support: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Total Award Amount: $18,250
Total Award Period Covered: 1/1/2008 - 6/30/2008
Project/Proposal Title: Use of Dynamic Electric Field Gradients for the Crystallization of Proteins
Source of Support: US Department of Defense
Total Award Amount: $420,000
Total Award Period Covered: 7/15/2005 - 7/14/2008
Project/Proposal Title: Novel Concept for Desalination of Seawater (Desalination using Electric Field Gradients
Source of Support: Kansas State University Foundation
Total Award Amount: $40,000
Total Award Period Covered: 2/15/2006 - 2/14/2007
Project/Proposal Title: Novel Concept for Protein Crystallization
Source of Support: US Department of Health and Human Services (NIH)
Total Award Amount: $144,286
Total Award Period Covered: 12/1/2005 - 11/30/2007
Project/Proposal Title: Detection of Biomarkers of Estrogen-Initiated Cancers
Source of Support: US Department of Health and Human Services (NIH)
Total Award Amount: $80,385
Total Award Period Covered: 8/15/2005 - 6/30/2006
Project/Proposal Title: Advanced Biomonitoring Techniques for Carcinogenesis
Pending funding:
Source of Support: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Total Award Amount: $472,073
Total Award Period Covered: 2/1/12-1/31/15
Project/Proposal Title: Electronic Structure and Dynamic Process in Light Harvesting Proteins and Reaction Center of Photosystem II