Professor Marek Kwiatkowski (Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Poland) will be visiting us at the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department (Ciências, ULisboa) next week within the ERASMUS Programme, and will be our invited lecturer for the seminar entitled "Lessons from the Past: What do we learn from not respecting the rules of Green Chemistry?" on April 14th, at 14:30, at the FFCUL Conference Room (C1 building). It will be a broad chemistry lecture that discusses several spectacular examples of misuse of chemical technologies in the past, as well as some important problems encountered when new, safer technologies are being introduced. The topics covered in the lecture include the effect of lead on Roman Empire, contemporary uses of extremely harmful technologies, problems associated with using even the greenest technologies and many others.

Marek Kwiatkowski is Professor of Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, POLAND. Currently, he is the Head of the Institute of Environment and Health Protection and the Chair of Science Education and Communication.