Damian Paliwoda is a post-doctoral research fellow at Lehigh University since September 2016. He received his Ph.D. from Adam ickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland in 2014. From 2014 to 2016 he developed his skills in high-pressure x-ray single-crystal diffraction techniques at High Pressure Diffraction Beamline ID09a/ID15b at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France.

His present EFree work focuses on the synthesis of hard-templated one-dimensional sp³-carbon  materials, carbon fluorides, and zeolitic boron carbonates at high pressure within diamond anvil cells and multi-anvil assemblies and their characterization using XRD, SEM, TEM, SAXS and WAXS techniques.