Professor Eugeniusz Zych obtained his PhD from the University of Wroclaw in 1994, and in 1994-1997, he completed an internship at the Department of Chemistry at Boston University. Prof. Zych managed almost twenty grants from domestic sources and several financed by the European Union or NATO and coordinated the consortium implementing the EU project LUMINET. He also carried out a research project for Philips. He supervised over a dozen doctors and dozens of master's students. His main scientific interests are research and development  of energy-storing luminescent materials, ionizing radiation detectors, dosimeters, phosphors for energy-saving LED lighting and horticultural applications, luminescent temperature sensors, and multifunctional nanomaterials for biological and medical applications. He has published over 200 original scientific articles and three book chapters in the United States. Since 2009, he has been the head of the Luminescent Materials Group, in the years 2005-2012 he was the vice-dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, and in the period of 2020-2022 he was the vice-rector for scientific research at the University of Wroclaw. In 2017, he received the Minister of Science and Higher Education award; in 2023, he received a Golden Cross of Merit from the President of Poland. In 2023 he was elected the Chair of the Luminescence and Display Materials Division of the Electrochemical Society for the 2023 – 2025 term.