Agnieszka Nowak-Król graduated with honors from the Rzeszów University of Technology in Poland. She received her PhD in 2013 from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw with Prof. Daniel Gryko and continued her career as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Frank Würthner at the University of Würzburg in Germany. In 2016, she started her independent career, and in 2019, she received the prestigious Emmy Noether Fellowship to establish her research group. She was appointed junior professor at the University of Würzburg in 2020, and professor in 2024.
Her main activities focus on the development of boron-containing helicenes and other chiral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, photoswitches, and their applications in organic electronics and bioimaging.
Her awards include the Arnold Sommerfeld Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Hector Research Career Development Award of the Hector Fellow Academy, and the Wojciech Świętosławski Prize of the Polish Chemical Society.