Witold Bloch
Senior Research Fellow
College of Science and Engineering
Wit obtained his PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2014, in the area of Metal-organic Frameworks under the guidance of Chris Sumby and Christian Doonan. In 2015, he was awarded a 24-month Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship which he undertook in the laboratory of Guido Clever at the University of Göttingen and TU Dortmund, Germany. During his fellowship, Wit contributed to developing assembly strategies for heteroleptic coordination cages based on palladium.
In 2017, Wit was awarded a University of Adelaide Ramsay Fellowship, which enabled him to return to Australia and begin his independent career. In 2019, he received an ARC DECRA Fellowship where his group developed new synthetic strategies for porous materials using supramolecular cage assemblies as building blocks.
In 2022, Wit joined Flinders University as a Lecturer in Chemistry, and in 2024, he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship. His current research focuses on the synthesis of coordination cages, their composites, and the application of these materials in sensing, anion sequestration, and PFAS removal.
- Senior Research Fellow, Flinders (2024 - present)
- Lecturer in Synthetic Chemistry, Flinders (2022 - 2024)
- Research Fellow in Chemistry, University of Adelaide (2018 - 2022)
- PhD in Chemistry, University of Adelaide (2010 - 2014)
- B.Sc (Nanoscience and Materials) & Honours in Chemistry (2006 - 2009)
- 2024 – ARC Future Fellowship “Supramolecular host-in-host adsorbents that trap perfluorinated pollutants” $922,912
- 2023 – Flinders DVCR Infrastructure Fund: $190,000
- 2023 – Flinders Research Investment Fund - Research support for MCRs: $75,000
- 2019 – ARC TC for Integrated Operations for Complex Resources: $3,703,664 (invited CI)
- 2019 – ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award "Linking Supramolecular Nanocages into Multi-functional Materials" $405,000
- 2019 – UoA DVCR Establishment Grant: $25,000
- 2018 – Order of Merit for Early Career Research Excellence, University of Adelaide
- 2017 – Ramsay Research Fellowship in Applied Science: $258,000
- 2017 – Fergus Ramsay Fellowship Start-up Grant: $20,000
- 2015 – Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship: €82,000
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