We are delighted to introduce Irena Žižović as a special guest of the 14th European Young Engineers Conference!✨
Irena Žižović is a professor of chemical engineering at the Faculty of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. She received the title of full professor from the University of Belgrade in 2016 and from the Council of the Scientific Excellence of the Republic of Poland in 2023.
Irena Žižović has over 30 years of experience in designing processes involving supercritical carbon dioxide such as extraction, impregnation, polymer foaming, heterogeneous reactions in supercritical phase, and aerogel production. In the last ten years, her focus has been designing advanced materials, such as those with strong antibacterial or antibiofilm properties, aerogels for different applications, active food packaging, polymeric systems for drug delivery, and novel composite materials for gas separations.
Irena Žižović is the co-author of more than 100 scientific studies, with over 2500 citations and an h-index of 30. She has been the PI of 9 national and international projects and holds 4 patents in the field. Irena Žižović has been an active member of the Working Party for High-Pressure Technologies of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering since 2014. 🧪
