Dr Krzysztof Dzieszkowski completed his MSc thesis at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, under the supervision of dr Andrzej Wolan. He continued his research in the prof. Zbigniew Rafiński group at the same university. His studies were focused on applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes in various annulation reactions. He completed his Ph.D. thesis and joined us for an internship to focus of chiral aspects of doped p-extended systems.