Rate My Professor Witold Bloch

Witold Bloch is a Senior Research Fellow in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University. He obtained a B.Sc. in Nanoscience and Materials with Honours in Chemistry from the University of Adelaide between 2006 and 2009, followed by a PhD in Chemistry from the same institution in 2014. His doctoral research focused on metal-organic frameworks under the supervision of Chris Sumby and Christian Doonan. In 2015, he received 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 in Germany, where he contributed to the development of assembly strategies for heteroleptic coordination cages based on palladium.

In 2017, Bloch was awarded a University of Adelaide Ramsay Fellowship, enabling him to return to Australia and establish his independent research career. He subsequently received an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2019, during which his group advanced new synthetic strategies for porous materials using supramolecular cage assemblies as building blocks. Bloch joined Flinders University in 2022 as a Lecturer in Synthetic Chemistry and was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 2024 upon receiving an ARC Future Fellowship. His current research centres on the synthesis of coordination cages and their composites, with applications in sensing, anion sequestration, and the removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. He has received additional honours including the Order of Merit for Early Career Research Excellence from the University of Adelaide in 2018 and multiple research grants and fellowships supporting his work in supramolecular and materials chemistry.