Mietek Jaroniec

Mietek Jaroniec (born 1 January 1949) is a Polish and American chemist and an author of over 950 scientific papers, which got over 127,964 citations and brings him an h-index of 155.

Biography He was born in 1949 in Okrzeja, Poland. He obtained his masters and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry at the Curie-Sklodowska University in 1972 and 1976 respectively. From 1972 to 1991 he worked at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University and since 1991 works at Kent State University as a professor. Prior to it, he also was a research assistant from 1972 to 1977 after which he got promoted to the assistant professor a position that he kept till 1980. From 1980 to 1985 he was an associate professor and then climbed the career ladder to become professor at which he remained till 1989. and in 2010 from Military Technical University. In 2016, he received the Marie Curie Medal by the Polish Chemical Society.