Polinski Research Group

Matthew Polinski was born and raised in Carroll Township, PA (about 45 minutes south of Pittsburgh).  He earned his B.A. from Washington and Jefferson College (2010) and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame (2013) under the direction of Dr. Thomas Albrecht-Schonzart.  His dissertation is titled "Syntheses, Characterization, and Fundamental Studies of Novel Trivalent Lanthanide and Actinide Borates".  After his graduate studies, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Florida State University in the lab of Dr. Albert Stiegman studying the mechanism of the Phillips polymerization catalyst. 

 

In 2014, he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where he is currently a tenured Associate Professor and teaches General Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, and a special topics course on Nuclear Chemistry, Radiochemistry, and f-Element Chemistry.  

 

Dr. Polinski is an expert in solid-state chemistry, f-element chemistry, structural chemistry, and materials science, with an emphasis on X-ray crystallography.

Dr. Polinski has won a variety of awards for both teaching and research.  Nationally, he was awarded the American Chemical Society's Nobel Laureate Signature Award in 2016.  He has been named the inaugural Aronstam Family Research Fellow (2021), awarded the Dean's Faculty Recognition Award for Research (2019), the Provost's Award for Excellence in Research/Scholarly Activity (2019), and an Influential Professor four times as selected by BU student athletes,