Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig

Dr Agnieszka (Aga) Iwasiewicz-Wabnig FRSA is a physicist by training. She carried out research and teaching in interdisciplinary nanoscience at Umeå University in Sweden, as well as at Oxford and Cambridge in the UK.

Since 2009 she has held a range of roles at the University of Cambridge, unified by their super-connector and knowledge broker aspects. Aga is the Director of the Maxwell Centre and Industrial Strategy Lead for the Cambridge Zero initiative, as well as a Fellow of Hughes Hall and a Cambridge Enterprise Champion. She regularly contributes as a Carbon Expert for Carbon 13 Venture Builder startup panels in Cambridge and Berlin.

Aga is a graduate of the Stanford LEAD executive education programme at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and recipient of Pacesetters cohort Impact Award.

Aga drives knowledge exchange between academia and industry through the University’s Maxwell Centre, leading a programme of engagements across physical
sciences, technology and beyond. This involves the matching of needs and solutions between partners and disciplines, showcasing the current work of academic groups, and enabling companies and entrepreneurs to spend time building meaningful relationships with academics around research.