General information
The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was officially presented in Stockholm on December 10, 2025, at a ceremony organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The Nobel Committee awarded the prize in chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks to Professor Susumu Kitagawa (University of Kyoto, Japan), Professor Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia), and Professor Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley).
The year 2025 brought many inspirations and satisfaction to the MOF community. Consequently, at the end of last year, an initiative emerged to integrate the Polish MOF community. Therefore, in the second week of February (February 10–12, 2026), we will host two distinguished scientists at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław – Prof. Stefano Canossa from ETH Zurich and Prof. Stefan Wuttke from AGH in Kraków. We believe this will be a great opportunity for polish MOF reseaechers to meet and discuss MOF-related topics. Additionally, Prof. Canossa will conduct a one-day workshop entitled: “Professional single-crystal diffraction analysis inside and outside the average box” open to all interested participants.
Due to a small and spontaneous nature of this event, we would like it to be free of charge for all attendees. The microsymposium will include lectures by experienced researchers and a poster session for PhD and undergraduate students.
Prof. Wojciech Bury, Dr Marzena Pander and Dr Min Ying Tsang
Symposium program
Important dates
Registration and abstract submission for MOFebruary 2026 is open
from 15 January 2026 to 1 February 2026.
Venue
Symposium lectures will take place in the Ignacy Z. Siemion Lecture Hall (Tuesday, 10.02.2026) and Józef J. Ziółkowski Lecture Hall (Wedneday, 11.02.2026) at the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław (map). This venue is located within the Grunwaldzki Campus of the University of Wrocław, which is conveniently situated close to the historic part of the city.
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Wrocław
ul. F. Joliot-Curie 14
50-383 Wrocław
Speakers
Prof. Stefan Wuttke is currently the Head of the Department of Nanoscience, Academic Centre for Materials and Nanotechnology, AGH in Kraków. He completed his PhD in 2009 and since 2011, he has started his independent research as a junior group leader “Wuttkegroup for Science” at the University of Munich. He then moved to the University of Lincoln in the UK as a senior lecturer. Before joining AGH, he was the Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Center on Materials in Spain. His research is focused on all aspects of internal and external surface engineering of porous hybrid bulk – and nanomaterials and in the exploration of the unexpressed potential of “the materials beyond” (materials with multiple functional moieties that display synergetic effects). He is also the chair of EU4MOFs cost action to bring researchers in the field across the world together and International Scientific Committee for EuroMOF conference. He is actively contributing to the material science community including European Chemistry School for Ukranians, visiting professors and publishing many prestigious international journals including Nature Chemistry, Nature Rev. Mat., Nature Comm., Advance Materials, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., JACS, Chem. Soc. Rev., Advanced Energy Mat. And Advanced Func. Mat. etc. He has been invited to many scientific conferences, seminars and lectures owing to his renowned research activities. His achievements were recognized by numerous awards including Award of Honorary Doctor of State Scientific Institution of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, UAM Excellence visiting professor at the United Arab Emirates University, Prize of the City of Poznan and Polish Chemical Society for the most prominent international representatives of science and art as well as numerous CeNS publication awards as best interdisciplinary publication and junior scientist publications.
Prof. Stefano Canossa is currently a senior scientist at ETH Zurich. He has made seminal contributions in the field of structural chemistry, particular contribution to the area of crystallography, defect structure determination and metal organic frameworks, including active participation in MOFschool, workshops and scientific associations to deliver high quality research data and materials. The results have been published in numerous prestigious international journals including Nature Comm., Nature Synthesis, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., etc. The high visibility of his research has given rise to many invitations to give conferences and seminars at relevant scientific meetings (e.g. 26th Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Nobel Symposium 193, and 35th European Crystallographic Meeting etc.) and universities (Bruker-MIT Symposium, Technical University of Denmark and Berkeley Global Science Institute etc.) at different countries (Switzerland, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Australia, U.A.E etc.). He has also chaired highly relevant scientific meetings: Nobel Symposium NS193, 34th and 35th European Crystallography Meetings. Since 2024, he is appointed as senior scientist in ETH Zurich. He has participated as PI and co-PI in 7 national and international research projects and has supervised 2 PhDs and 4 graduate and postgraduate students. He also actively contributed to peer-reviewing in high impact journals and engaging in educational seminars and free access public educational materials.
Registration
To register for the event, please fill in the Microsoft Forms registration form (see the link below).
If you wish to present a poster or contribute an oral presentation, please send your abstract by email to wojciech.bury@uwr.edu.pl after registering.
Contact information
Organisers
dr hab. Wojciech Bury, prof. UWr
Faculty of Chemistry
University of Wrocław
E-mail:
wojciech.bury@uwr.edu.pl
Prof. Wojciech Bury is an associate professor at the University of Wrocław, where he became the leader of Reticular Chemistry and Catalysis Group in 2024. He received his PhD degree in 2008 at Warsaw University of Technology. From 2011 to 2014, he spent a research internship at Northwestern University in the Hupp group, where he started his research adventure with MOFs. In 2016 he joined the Catalysis and Coordination Chemistry Group at the University of Wrocław, where he has been working on various aspects of reticular chemistry with special attention to zirconium-based MOFs.
dr Marzena Pander
Faculty of Chemistry
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
E-mail:
marzena.pander@uj.edu.pl
Dr. Marzena Pander is currently working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2023, she completed her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Wrocław, where she has worked on the post-synthetic modifications of Zr-based MOFs. In the same year, she joined the research group of Professor Hoi Ri Moon at Ewha Womans University as a postdoctoral fellow. Her current research focuses on the structural dynamics of responsive coordination polymers and their applications.
dr Min Ying Tsang
Łukasiewicz Research Network – PORT in Wrocław
E-mail:
min.ying.tsang@port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl
Dr. Min Ying Tsang is a materials chemist specializing in the design, synthesis, and applications of functional porous materials. She completed her PhD in 2015 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she developed new N,O-type carborane-based materials ranging from molecular complexes to three-dimensional metal-organic frameworks. Currently, she is a junior group lider of the Functional Macromolecules and Porous Materials Research Group (FunMat-Group). Her research focuses on the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), metal-organic polyhedra (MOPs), porous liquids, and lanthanide-based materials, with applications in photocatalytic water splitting, gas capture and separation, optical sensing, chemical detection, and antimicrobial technologies.
Local Organizing Committee
dr hab. Izabela Czeluśniak, mgr Emilian Stachura, mgr Oliwia Stani, mgr Magdalena Kozieł-Szymańska
Patronage
Honorary Chair – prof. dr hab. Anna M. Trzeciak
The Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry – dr hab. Marcin Sobczyk, prof. UWr
