Marcin Brynda

Marcin Brynda was born in Warsaw, Poland and obtained his B.Sc, M.Sc. and Ph.D in Physical Chemistry (EPR/QM computations) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After postdoctoral research activities with Prof. Michel Geoffroy (EPR) and later with Dr Serge Stoll (biophysics of colloids and polymers), he was appointed "Young Lecturer" under supervision of Prof. M. Borkovec in the Laboratory of Colloid and Surface Chemistry in the Centre of Analytical and Biophysical Environmental Chemistry in Geneva.

In 2002, after having obtained a Swiss National Science Foundation grant for advanced researchers, he moved to California, Davis, where he was working as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry.

In 2004 he was appointed Faculty Assistant Specialist, and in 2006 Faculty Associate Specialist, in the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis where he worked with Prof. David R. Britt in multifrequency EPR and computational chemistry of biomolecules. He also collaborated with prof. Philip P. Power providing theoretical description of many new transition metal and main group elements complexes.

In 2008 he moved back to Switzerland where he currently works as Research Associate in the group of prof. Laura Gagliardi  on theoretical description of multiply bonded transition metal complexes.