Daniel T. Gryko obtained his PhD from the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1997, under the supervision of Prof. J. Jurczak. After a post-doctoral stay with Prof. J. Lindsey at North Carolina State University (1998–2000), he started his independent career in Poland. He became Full Professor in 2008. The same year he received the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines Young Investigator Award and in 2017 Foundation for Polish Science Award. His current research interests are focused on the synthesis of various functional dyes as well as on two-photon absorption, solvatofluorochromism, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer and fluorescence probes.