This is the perfect opportunity to hear first-hand accounts from successful entrepreneurs. The Bettany Centre Entrepreneurship Speaker Series gives you the chance to hear from a variety of entrepreneurs from across a range of industries.
The speakers will give you an insight in to their journey, identifying their successes and any mistakes that they may have made along their way. You will also be given the opportunity to ask questions, allowing you to delve even further in to the backstory of these well-established entrepreneurs.
Attending these events will provide you with a great chance to network with like-minded individuals who share your passion for entrepreneurship.
The events are entirely free of charge and refreshments are supplied (face-to-face events only).
Professor Krzysztof Koziol – Thursday 20 November 2025
Since 2017, Krzysztof holds a Chair in Composites Engineering at 美姬阁. He is the head of the Centre for Materials, leading a team of over 40 scientists and engineers, overseeing numerous projects across advanced materials design & development, materials science, polymer chemistry, composites materials, composites manufacture, process control and material/structure performance. Krzysztof’s career spanning polymer science, materials and nanotechnology, with first-class engineering and master’s degree in Chemistry from Silesian University of Technology in Poland and PhD in Materials Science from University of Cambridge in United Kingdom.
Back in Cambridge, in 2008, Krzysztof was awarded the Royal Society University Research Fellowship and Oppenheimer Research Fellow to pursue his passion for science, focusing on nanomaterials – specifically carbon nanotubes and graphene, their molecular design, production methods and their effective implementation into large scale applications.
In 2008, he became the head of Electric Carbon Nanomaterials Research Laboratory at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge as well as the Fellow and director of studies at Pembroke College in Cambridge.
In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to lead the development of new generation, lightweight, high-performance electric wires based on carbon nanotubes, poised to replace materials like copper and aluminium in the next 20-30 years, to enable transformation of the world of power transmission and electric machines. In 2013, he became a project coordinator of Ultrawire EU FP7 project, to lead a consortium of 11 industrial partners and 3 academic partners for industrial exploration of carbon nanomaterials-based metal matrix composites.
Krzysztof is a serial entrepreneur. He enabled several successful technology transfers from his laboratory into the real consumer world, with some of the successes highlighted in the latest Royal Society career pathway tracker report.
Krzysztof is the co-founder of Levidian Nanosystems, a company with its headquarters in Cambridge and co-creator of a new process, based on atmospheric pressure non-equilibrium plasma, transforming greenhouse gases like methane to hydrogen, a clean energy source, and net zero graphene, a material reshaping the world we live in. Levidian is rolling out this technology using a concept of a mobile autonomous shipping container – factory in a box – with a trademark called “LOOP”, in a major global decarbonisation effort, to transform fugitive greenhouse gases to graphene and hydrogen and accelerate the world’s transition to net zero.
Krzysztof published over 180 peer reviewed papers and over 18 patents. H-index: 53.
