Kamil Filip Dziubek was born in Poznań, Poland, and quickly developed an insatiable curiosity about the world around him. As a natural born scientist and autodidact, he devoured old textbooks found in his childhood home. Around this time Kamil set up a small home lab and managed to damage a table and burn holes in the window curtains. Despite these mishaps, his skills were soon recognized, and he was recommended to a chemistry teacher in elementary school. At the age of 9, Kamil became the youngest laureate of a chemistry competition for school students. Over the years he pursued his scientific interests and earned his PhD in chemistry in 2009 from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. After working for a decade at the European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy in Florence, Italy, Kamil recently moved to take a position at the Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is an active member of the research community, serving as the chair of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure and as the IUCr Ambassador to CODATA. Kamil is also a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in science. He co-organizes “Women under High Pressure” Power Hour gatherings at various conferences and workshops. He contributes to the decolonization of science in Africa by volunteering as a teacher within X-TechLab, an experimental platform dedicated to scientific research in Cotonou, Benin. Kamil also tried his hand as a translator, interpreting in Polish several neo-Latin Baroque funerary inscriptions published in “Vanitas. Coffin portrait in the context of Sarmatian burial customs” (1997).
