Ryszard Lobinski graduated in 1986 from the Warsaw University of Technology (Politechnika Warszawska) from which he obtained his Ph.D. (1989) and D.Sc. (habilitation) (1994) degrees. He was a research fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Institute of Spectroscopy and Applied Spectrometry (ISAS) in Dortmund (1990) and then assistant at the University of Antwerp (U.I.A.) (1991 - 1994). In 1994 he entered the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Prof. Dr. R. Lobinski is a research director at the CNRS and professor of analytical chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology. He is also the co-director of the UltraTrace Analyses Aquitaine (UT2A) and the secretary of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the IUPAC.