Dr. Durka received his PhD in 2015 and completed his habilitation in 2023. Since 2015, he has been affiliated with the Warsaw University of Technology, initially as an assistant professor and from 2025, as an associate professor. In 2018, he undertook a scientific internship at Durham University. Dr Durka has published 82 scientific articles (2009-2025) including Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Science, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Chemistry – a European Journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, Inorganic Chemistry. He was a leader of NCN OPUS, SONATA and PRELUDIUM projects.
His research is focused on the chemistry of main group organometallic compounds, with emphasis placed on photoactive organoboron compounds. The main objective is to understand how the specific photoactive properties such as thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), room temperature phosphorescence (RTP), aggregation-induced emission (AIE) can be controlled by the structure of material both at the molecular level and by non-covalent interactions in the solid state. He is also involved in the development of the heavy-atom free triplet state photosensitizers of singlet oxygen with the target application in organic synthesis, water remediation systems as well as antimicrobial and anticancer photodynamic therapy (PDT). He specializes in physical organic chemistry, crystallography, computations and organometallic chemistry.