Three scientific councils were established under the IDUB programme to serve as consultative and advisory bodies and supervise the implementation of the tasks set out in the programme. The tasks of scientific councils include in particular:
- monitoring scientific activities of research teams in emerging fields;
- drawing up a ranking list in competitions for research teams within emerging fields;
- drawing up a ranking list in competitions for research teams within emerging research fields and teams financed from the funds for sustainable development of the University;
- issuing opinions on motions by the head of a research team to include or exclude a University employee from the team.
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Dr hab. Maciej Karwowski, prof. UWr – doctor habilitated, professor of the University of Wrocław. He graduated in pedagogy from the Academy of Special Education in 2002, and two years later in sociology and psychology from the University of Warsaw. He was awarded the degree of doctor in the field of ability pedagogy in 2004 and habilitation in the same field in 2010 from the Academy of Special Education in Warsaw. He currently heads the Department of Creative Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław. His scientific interests include the psychology of creativity and education and psychometrics and the methodology of social research. He is the author of over 160 scientific articles on psychology and pedagogy. He is the editor or author of 12 books in the same field, including a monograph published in 2017 entitled “The Creative Self: Effects of beliefs, self-efficacy, mindset, and identity.”, San Diego, CA: Academic Press. He has been the chairman of several review panels at the National Science Centre in the field of social sciences. He has also served as deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal of Creative Behavior – the oldest scientific journal on the psychology of creativity, member of editorial boards: Creativity Research Journal, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Thinking Skills and Creativity, Review of General Psychology, Journal of Creativity and Business Innovation and Frontiers in Psychology. Co-editor-in-chief of the Open Access journal Creativity: Theories-Research-Application.
Dr Adrian Wójcik – Vice-Chair of the Scientific Council for HS, sociologist and social psychologist, Vice-Dean for Research and Internationalisation of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, NCU. He was awarded the title of master and the degree of doctor at the University of Warsaw. In his doctoral thesis, he analyzed the relationship between the content of social memory of the Jewish minority and contemporary intergroup relations. Currently, his main research area involves conservation psychology. He focuses on the relationship between pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, and more general socio-political beliefs (political ideology, various forms of identification, values). A collaborator of non-governmental environmental organisations for which he conducts workshops on pro-environmental communication. He has been a participant of numerous trainings on the analysis of intercultural data in social sciences (European Social Survey, GESIS, SERISS) and is a member of the editorial board of the Social Psychological Bulletin published as an Open Access journal.
Prof. dr hab. Joanna Wojdon – associate professor at the Department of Methodology of Teaching History and Civic Education, Institute of History, University of Wrocław, a Fulbright alumna and the Kościuszko Foundation grant holder, a board member of the International Society for History Didactics and managing editor of its Yearbook, a member of the steering committee of the International Federation for Public History – a journal published since 1944 by the Polish American Historical Association. She is a member of the Presidium of the Committee on Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Interdepartmental Commission for Diaspora Research of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the first history e-textbook in Poland. She has developed the first MA program in public history in Poland. Other areas of her interest include teaching history through entertainment, the influence of politics and propaganda on education, especially in the People’s Republic of Poland, and the history of the Polish American community after World War II. The author of six monographs and seven edited works on these issues.
Dr hab. Ewa Dahlig-Turek, prof. IS PAN – Director of the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, musicologist, researcher of Polish folk music. She was Vice-President of the Polish Association of Research Managers and Administrations between 2005-2009. A member of the International Council for Traditional Music (chair of the Polish National Committee of ICTM) and European Seminar in Ethnomusicology. A reviewer of grant applications at the Australian Research Council (expert assessor of international standing since 1997), Israel Science Foundation (since 2001) and Foundation for Polish Science. Between 2008-2013, a member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities at the European Science Foundation in Strasburg. She was a member of the Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific Units (2011-2019) and Chair of the Commission of the Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific Units for the Group of Humanities and Social Sciences (2012-2019). She has been a member of the International Advisory Board at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences since 2019. Her main areas of interest include issues of folk music culture in Poland with particular emphasis on folk instruments and problems of eurhythmics, computer-aided analysis of the rhythm “Polish dances” in Scandinavia. Her research has led to the reconstruction of forgotten Polish string instruments – the Bilgoray suka and the Płock fiddle. Since 2015, she has been implementing a pioneering project of the electronic edition of folk music recordings from the Oskar Kolberg collection in the Music Information Retrieval mode.
Dr hab. Łukasz Młyńczyk – research and teaching staff member at the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies University of Warsaw. He specializes in research on social research methodologies, metatheories and policy theory. He is the author of two scientific monographs “Between Creativity and Idleness. Politicalness of Two Ideal Types” (2015); “Religious policy. Perspective of the European Union” (2018 co-author) and several articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He has published, among others, in Sweden and the United States. A content editor of scientific journals: “Athenaeum. Polish Political Science Studies” and “Review of Nationalities”. Between 2014-19, Vice-Director and then Acting Director of the Institute of Political Science of UZ. The supervisor of doctoral dissertations. A reviewer in promotion procedures. The author of editorial reviews of many scientific monographs published in Poland and abroad and of leading indexed political science journals in Poland. He has reviewed the texts of both Polish and foreign social scientists affiliated outside Polish research institutions. He specializes in the substantive evaluation of scientific texts concerning and in compliance with methodological rules in the area of social and humanities research, including political sciences, public policy, sociology, cultural anthropology, philosophy. An expert in the evaluation of texts in political science approached as strictly scientific research.
Dr hab. Karolina Kremens, LL.M. – the Head of the Incubator of Scientific Excellence – Digital Justice Center established in September 2021 at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wroclaw conducting multidisciplinary research on the impact of new technologies and artificial intelligence on the criminal process. Previously, she worked for ten years in the Department of Criminal Procedure at WPAiE UWr and from 2009 to 2012 she worked as an assessor in one of Wrocław’s district prosecutor’s offices. She was a Fulbright scholar (UCONN, USA) and a participant in the Edward Barry McDougall program (UOttawa, Canada) and the Vlamssee government scholarship (KU Leuven, Belgium). She has taught at European and North American universities, including Bologna, Exeter, Toledo, Dallas and Hartford. Author of dozens of publications in the field of Polish, international and comparative criminal trial, including the monograph Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation: A Comparative Perspective (Routledge 2021). Manager and participant of national and international research projects. She heads the NCN project – Sonata-bis on the theory and practice of searches in a comparative legal perspective and in 2019-2022 she led the Polish research team in the EU project “Knowledge, Advisory and Capacity Building Information Tool for Criminal Procedural Rights in Judicial Cooperation” (CROSSJUSTICE) implemented with the participation of universities from Bologna, Florence, Turin and Leiden, among others. During the 2022/2023 academic year, she is staying as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa conducting research on the role of gender in the criminal process as a Bekker Fellow (NAWA).
Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Skibińska – Romanist and Polish scholar. She works on the problems of translation from a cultural and socioliterary perspective. Author of numerous works on translation in the perspective of intercultural mediation, including articles in foreign and Polish journals (Target, inTRAlinea, Translation Studies, Teksty Drugie, Pamiętnik Literacki) and monographs Translation and Culture. Cultural Elements in French Translations of “Pan Tadeusz” and The Translator’s Kitchen. She studies on Polish-French translation relations. Editor of collective monographic volumes on translation, including: Gombrowicz and Translators; Konwicki and Translators; Lem and Translators; Translator’s Footnotes; Vingt-cinq ans après… Traduire dans une Europe en reconfiguration; La voix du traducteur à l’école / The Translator’s Voice at School. Co-founder (1995) and coordinator of the work of the international team Traduction comme moyen de communication interculturelle (Lille, Wroclaw, Krakow, Mulhouse). She is the participant of the international project TranslAtWar – Literary Translation at War (Mapping WW2 in Europe 1939-45), ERC Advanced Grant (2022). Editor-in-chief of the journal Romanica Wratislaviensia (since 2003). Head of Stationary Doctoral Studies of the Faculty of Philology and Doctoral College of the Faculty of Philology. Head of the Department of Linguistics (2000-2013) and Translatology (2013-2020) at the Institute of Romance Philology, University of Wroclaw. Visiting Professor at the University of Lille 3 (2006, ac. year 2009/10; 2018). Member of the Team of Experts of the National Science Center, chair of the panel (editions 3-8 of the Prelude competition). Member of international expert teams appointed to evaluate study programs by the Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education in Lithuania (2012, 2013, 2015, 2020) and by the Hellenic Authority for Higher Education (2021, 2022). Multiple member of international committees in university promotion proceedings in Greece (since 2014).
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Szumna – wrote her doctoral thesis on the synthesis and structure of supramolecular anion receptors under the supervision of Prof. Jurczak and defended it in 2001 with distinction. Between 2001-2003, she completed her post-doctoral internship at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA under the guidance of Professor J. Atwood. She was awarded habilitation in 2010 for a monothematic series of works entitled “Chiral Molecular Containers – Synthesis, Structure and Complexing Properties”. The work was distinguished with the Prime Minister’s Award and the Scientific Award of the W. Kołos Division III of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2012, she has been leading a research group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2017, she was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Wilhelm Klemm Lectureship joint prize of the Polish and German Chemical Society (PTChem and GDCh). She was awarded an academic title of professor in 2019. Currently, she is Head of Team No. 9 at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. Professor Szumna’s scientific interests focus on the synthesis of molecular capsules containing in their structure biocompatible components. She has also been working on the development of research related to the use of these capsules as nanocontainers, supramolecular catalysts, drug transporters, components of porous materials and as surface stabilisers of proteins. Her research group uses a wide range of methods related to organic synthesis, mechanochemistry, crystallography and magnetic resonance, and makes intensive use of chiraloptic methods and quantum-mechanical calculations. Prof. Szumna has led several grants funded by the State Committee for Scientific Research, the National Science Centre and the ITN grant under Horizon2020.
dr hab. Justyna Kozłowska – deputy chairwoman, a 2008 graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. (specialty: polymer chemistry). She received her PhD degree in chemistry from the same unit in 2014. She works in the Functional Polymer Materials Team. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska’s research interests are related to polymers and their practical use in the design of new materials for medicine and the cosmetic industry. She is a specialist in encapsulation techniques used for controlled release of active ingredients. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska’s scientific achievements include more than 50 publications and 2 patents, in turn, the results of her research were presented at many international and national conferences. She has led grants funded by NCN, and is a member of teams implementing projects funded by NCBiR and the Center for Academic Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska is one of the leaders of the Interdisciplinary Innovation in Personalized Medicine Team that is part of the University’s Center of Excellence in the research area “Towards Personalized Medicine”, whose activities focus on the search for new disease biomarkers, development of new therapeutic strategies and regenerative medicine. Dr. hab. J. Kozlowska is also a partner in the academic company NatChemLab Ltd.
Prof. dr hab. Leszek Rutkowski – graduated in 1977 from the Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology (specialization: technical cybernetics systems). In the same year, as a scholarship holder at the Częstochowa University of Technology, he took up doctoral studies at the Institute of Cybernetics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Meanwhile, he was working on his doctoral thesis entitled “Non-parametric identification of non-stationary control objects”. In March 1980, he was awarded the degree of doctor of technical sciences by a resolution of the Council of the Institute of Technical Cybernetics. He was conferred the degree of doctor habilitated in technical sciences by the Council of the Faculty of Electronics, Wrocław University of Science and Technology in January 1986. The thesis dealt with the identification of non-stationary systems and classification of images characterized by time-varying probability densities. He was awarded the title of professor in November 1995 at the request of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics and Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow. Prof. dr hab. inż. Leszek Rutkowski is the author and co-author of about 200 publications, more than 30 of which have been published in highly prestigious IEEE journals. These publications have been quoted many times in world literature (according to Web of Science H = 41). In November 2004 he was elected by the IEEE Board of Directors as IEEE Fellow (one of the world’s most respected scientific awards) for “contributions to neurocomputing and flexible fuzzy systems”. In 2004, he was elected a correspondent member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in 2016 a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a laureate of many international and national awards, competitions organized by the National Science Centre and the Foundation for Polish Science (e.g. “MISTRZ” and “TEAM”), he is also Doctor honoris causa awarded by AGH UST in Cracow (2014).
Dr hab. Agnieszka Janiuk, prof. CFT PAN – a graduate of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw (diploma in the Department of Astronomy in 1998). She was awarded the degree of doctor of physical sciences in astronomy from the Doctoral College, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (diploma with honours, 2003). She has completed several scientific fellowships, among others in Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Triest, in Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the USA, in Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Munich, in Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India, and post-doctoral contract at the Faculty of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the USA. She was awarded the degree of doctor habilitated in physical sciences in astronomy by the Scientific Council of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in April 2011 for the thesis entitled “Structure and variability of the central engine responsible for the gamma-ray phenomenon”. The procedure for the award to Dr hab. A. Janiuk of the academic title of professor was initiated by the Scientific Council of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2019. Agnieszka Janiuk has been working in the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences since October 2010; first in the position of an assistant professor and since autumn 2011 in the position of a professor. Between 2011 and 2015, she was the Deputy Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences for Scientific and General Affairs. She has been running her own astrophysics research group in the Center since 2011. To date, 5 doctoral students and 3 postdoctoral interns have worked in the group, 1 master’s thesis has been written, and there have been numerous scientific internships in which students of senior years of degree programmes in physics and astronomy have taken part. In her work Prof. Janiuk focuses on astrophysics of accretion disks in binary systems with stars, construction of active galactic nuclei and quasarsars, as well as the origin of gamma flares and nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in these objects. Her latest works concern the modelling of the collapse of massive stars, the formation of black holes, and electromagnetic signals accompanying compact star collisions which are the sources of gravity waves. She is the author of over 120 publications in the field of astrophysics and has managed several grants from the State Committee for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Science and the National Science Centre. A. Janiuk is a member of the Polish Astronomical Society (between 2009-2011 she was the member of the Board of the Polish Astronomical Society), the European Astronomical Society (she has been participating in the works of the Sustainability Working Group since 2020), and the International Astronomical Union participating in the activities of Commission B1 (Computational Astrophysics). In 2015 and 2019 she became twice a member of the Committee on Astronomy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Furthermore, she participates in the works of the National Council of Particle Astrophysics.
prof. dr hab Jerzy Nawrocki – graduate of the Faculty of Geology at the University of Warsaw – geologist and geophysicist. He completed his individual studies at this university in stratigraphic-exploration geology and geological geophysics in 1984. Since 1985, he has worked at the National Geological Institute – PIB, where he defended his doctoral thesis in 1994. Since 2016, he has also been a lecturer at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. His postdoctoral degree was conferred on him by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2004. At the request of the same Council, he was awarded the title of professor in March 2011. Prof. Dr. Jerzy Nawrocki’s scientific achievements include works in the fields of paleomagnetism, environmental magnetometry, isotope stratigraphy, climate change reconstruction, raw material geology and geothermal geology. Outside Poland, he has conducted research in Antarctica, Ukraine, Spitsbergen, and Mexico, among other places. He has held research internships at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Norwich and at the Center for Earth Research (GFZ) in Potsdam. He is the scientific editor of the monograph “Geological Atlas of Poland” (State Geological Institute -PIB), published in 2017. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the journal Geological Quarterly. From 2006 to 2007, Deputy Director of the State Geological Institute for Scientific Affairs, and from 2008 to 2014, Director of the Institute. Member of the Polar Research Committee at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Lisowska – is the director of the Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz and the head of the Department of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology of the University of Lodz. In the years 2008-2016 she was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz, currently she is a member of the Senate of the University of Lodz. Specialist in the field of microbial biotechnology. Scientific interests of prof. Katarzyna Lisowska focus on the processes of microbiological detoxification and degradation of xenobiotics that are particularly dangerous for the environment, including endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Her work also includes research on the biological activity of nanomaterials and the microbiological synthesis of nanoparticles. She was the manager and contractor of many scientific projects financed through domestic and foreign competitions, carried out in scientific cooperation with the Euromed University in Fez, Morocco, CNRS in Toulouse, France, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, Germany, Medical University of Lodz, Institute of Biology of the Medical Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Technical Committee for Soil Chemistry of the Polish Committee for Standardization. She was also the vice-president of the Lodz Branch of the Polish Society of Microbiologists.
Life Sciences
Prof. dr hab. Ewa Łojkowska – Chair of the Scientific Council for Life Science. A graduate of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University. Currently, she is Head of the Department of Plant Protection and Biotechnology, the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk (UG) and the Medical University of Gdańsk (MUG) in Gdańsk. Between 2005-2012, she was Dean of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk. She is the founder of PhD studies “Life Science and Mathematics Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies (LiSMIDoS)” at the University of Gdańsk. She collaborates with Prof. Alessio Mengoni of Università degli Studi di Flirenze (Italy) and Prof. Nicole Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat of Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Lyon (France). Between 20011-2012, she lectured at the Università degli Studi di Perugia (Italy). She conducts research within the European ERA-NET Euphresco “Assessment of Dickeya and Pectobacterium spp. on vegetables and ornamentals (soft rot) “. She is a specialist in molecular factors determining bacterial pathogenicity, biodiversity and epidemiology of bacterial plant pathogens, the molecular basis of plant resistance to bacteria and molecular taxonomy. The second area of her research covers issues concerning biologically active, plant secondary metabolites, the possibility of their use for the protection of human health, biotechnological methods of propagation of rare and endangered plant species (Polish orchids, insectivorous plants). She is the founder of a research school that focuses on the study of biodiversity, taxonomy and molecular factors determining the pathogenicity of bacterial plant pathogens. She has promoted 20 doctoral candidates and 5 of her fellows have been awarded a degree of doctor habilitated. During the 2013-2016 and 2017-2021 terms of office, she was a member of the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles and deputy chair the Section of Biological, Agricultural, Forestry and Veterinary Sciences of the Central Commission and since 2011 deputy chair of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Chair of the Jury of the “L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award” and President of the Professor Wacław Szybalski Foundation.
Dr hab. Marek Foksiński, prof. UMK – Head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy. He explores the participation of oxidative and epigenetic DNA modifications in the pathogenesis of human diseases, the potential of antioxidants and their influence on the process of oncological treatment. He actively participated in the implementation of European Union grants (concerted action grants – ESCODD No QLK1-CT-1999-00568 and networks of excellence grants – FOOD-CT-2005-513943 ECNIS implemented under the FP6 and more than a dozen grants from the State Committee for Scientific Research, the Ministry of Science and Informatisation and the National Science Centre. He was also one of the recipients of the Polish-American grant (Skłodowska-Curie MZ/NIST-97-298). He was the principal investigator of two research projects from the State Committee for Scientific Research the results of which were published in international journals. He has also obtained funding for the research project entitled “Products of enzymatic oxidation of 5-methylcytosine as new predictive factors in response to systemic breast cancer treatment” from the National Science Centre (grant number 2015/17/B/NZ5/00640). He is also principal investigator of the project on the part of Collegium Medicum “Medicine and Human Health. The Kujawsko-Pomorskie Interdisciplinary Programme of Personalized Diagnosis and Health Care” within the Regional Operational Programme of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship for the years 2014-2020 (RPKP.01.01.00-04-0003/17). In addition to scientific and administrative activities, he also participates in the works of various bodies. He took an active part in the organization of the PhD Studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy and is a member of the Commission for PhD Studies. He is also a member of the University Disciplinary Committee for Academic Teachers. He is a member of expert and evaluation panels for research projects at the local level and National Science Centre panels for Life Sciences. He is a laureate of the Team Scientific Award, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences. He also received the Team Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education in 2006 and the Team Awards of the Minister of Health and Social Welfare in 1995, 2000, 2001 and 2008. He is a beneficiary of many awards of the Rector of the Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Dr hab. n. med. Agnieszka Gorzkowska – affiliated with the Department of Neurology at the Silesian Medical University in Katowice. She is a specialist in neurology and a specialist in clinical psychology. She serves as Head of the Department of Neurorehabilitation of the Department of Neurology at the Silesian Medical University in Katowice. He is Deputy Head of the Neurology Department and Stroke Department of the University Clinical Center in Katowice. She carries out scientific projects on neurodegenerative diseases of the nervous system, particularly Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. A particular focus of her research has been dopamine dysregulation syndrome in Parkinson’s disease, molecular determinants of neurological diseases, including dementia. She has presented her work at international and national congresses, mainly on neurodegenerative, extrapyramidal diseases of Parkinson’s disease. She is co-founder of the neuroscience faculty at the Silesian Medical University. Research collaborations: TeleBrain – Artificially Intelligent EEG Analysis in the Cloud: TeleBrain NCBiR; Center for Research and Implementation of Health Supporting Strategies: RIDage Regional Initiative of Excellence, Ministry of Science and Higher Education; Development of innovative methods of neuropsychological therapy for adults, Technicenter Ltd. Project co-financed by the EU from the European Regional Development Fund under the Regional Operational Program of the Silesian Voivodeship for 2014-2020.
Prof. dr hab. Edyta Reszka – graduated in molecular biology from the University of Łódź. As a fellow of the Transfer of Knowledge in Molecular Biology and Epidemiology of Occupational and Environmental Cancer (EPI-Tok) Fellowship and the ECNIS Exchange Fellowship Network of Excellence, she worked at the Institute of Toxicology of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. She is Head of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics at the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź and she serves as President of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Society of Toxicology. She is also a member of the Association of European Toxicologists and European Societies of Texicologi (EUROTOX), Working Time Society (WTS), Cancer Epigenetics Society (CES) and the Polish Biochemical Society (PTBioch). Her research includes the study of epigenetic and genetic markers with consideration given to gene-gene, gene-environmental or gen-diet interactions to determine the risk of disease as well as the diagnosis, forecasting or treatment of civilization diseases. Her research interests also include the circadian rhythm and its influence on the functioning of the body, including the mechanisms of cancer development. Her current scientific achievements include over 60 publications. Dr Edyta Reszka was principal investigator and contractor in many scientific projects funded through national and international competitions including projects from the National Science Centre and PNRF/EOG funds. She is a reviewer of many publications in journals and research projects, including the Diamond Grant and COST. For many years she has cooperated, among others, with I Clinic of Urology, Medical University of Łódź, Department of Laboratory Medicine and the Biobank of the Medical University of Gdańsk, the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy, the National Health Institute in Oslo, Department of Genetics in Psychiatry, Medical University of Poznań, and she is a member of the Scientific Council of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine.
Prof. dr hab. Jacek Witkowski – the author of 192 scientific articles and more than a dozen chapters in international textbooks, and his works have been cited more than 7850 times, corresponding to an index of h=43 (according to the Google Scholar database). Prof. Witkowski has so far (2022) promoted seven PhDs in medical sciences and supervised three habilitations of female colleagues in the unit. He is a member of editorial boards and a reviewer for many international gerontology and immunology journals, including Biogerontology, Experimental Gerontology, Current Gerontology and Geriatric Research, Journal of Immunology, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Aging, Mechanisms of Aging and Development, Central European Journal of Immunology, and Acta Biochimica Polonica.
Prof. dr hab. Kamila Wojas-Krawczyk – graduate of the Medical University of Lublin, laboratory diagnostician, specialist in laboratory medical immunology. She is in the process of receiving specialization in laboratory medical genetics. In her scientific work, she mainly deals with disorders of the immune system in cancer. She has completed numerous internships in Polish and foreign laboratories, including an internship at the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology at the University of Ulm on monitoring the state of the immune system in patients undergoing various immunotherapy methods, or an internship at the scientific laboratory of the Charite Department of Dermatology at Humboldt University in Berlin on dendritic cell generation techniques and the application of immunotherapy in melanoma patients. She is employed at the Department of Pneumonology, Oncology and Allergology at the Medical University of Lublin. She is a member of the team introducing modern immunotherapy methods for the treatment of lung cancer. In addition, he is involved in molecular diagnostics of predictive factors in qualifying for molecularly targeted therapies. She is a member of many national and international scientific societies, including the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the European Society for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy.
Author of numerous scientific articles, editor of scientific studies of monographs and lectures on the complex mechanisms of the immune system. She is the recipient of the prestigious UNESCO and L’oreal Fellowship for Women and Science and many other awards, including the Minister of Health Award for a series of publications on dendritic cells. She is a person who widely promotes popular scientific knowledge about immunotherapy. For more than 14 years she has been the coordinator for the Lublin province of the “More Beautiful Life” campaign – care workshops for women undergoing cancer treatment. She has taken scientific patronage of conferences and scientific meetings. She is co-organizer of webinars devoted to the comprehensive care of patients undergoing oncological treatment. Privately, she has conquered many mountain peaks, is passionate about street and mountain running and the Spanish language.
Prof. dr hab. inż. Beata Kolesińska – Professor of science in chemistry, employee of the Technical University of Lodz (Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Organic Chemistry), Head of the Peptide and Protein Chemistry and Engineering Group. Her research interests include i) biologically active peptides and their use in medicine, peptide-drug/tag conjugates; ii) peptide and hybrid materials based on peptides/proteins; iii) design, synthesis and application of peptides forming stable conformers. Author and co-author of 104 scientific publications in international journals, 11 chapters in books, 6 publications of national scope, 33 peer-reviewed post-conference publications, more than 230 communications at national and international conferences, and 18 patents and patent applications.
prof. dr hab. Joanna Izdebska – graduate of the Faculty of Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. She is currently the Head of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Gdansk, associate Dean for science, Head of the Doctoral Program in Biology, Ecology and Microbiology at WB UG, and a member of the Committee on Organismal Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She specializes in zoology, parasitology and ecology; her main area of activity is the biology, taxonomy and ecology of animal parasites. Her scientific output includes about 140 peer-reviewed publications, nearly 120 others and a book. Important achievements have been the discovery and publication of descriptions of two genera new to science and 23 new species of mites of the nematode family Demodecidae, peculiar parasites of mammals, both domestic, synanthropic, rare and endangered (including ungulates – bison, carnivores – domestic cat, domestic dog, the European otter, the common polecat, shrews – the carnic toothpick, bats – the brown bat, the great boa constrictor, or rodents – the European beaver, the house mouse, the wandering rat, the Indian bandicoot, mice – the forest, field and scrub mice, and the common vole). She has also made a comprehensive study of the parasitic arthropod fauna of the bison; she conducts multidirectional studies of the parasitofauna of animals associated with aquatic environments, including marine mammals. She was the manager or contractor of 14 research projects. She has developed two procedures for testing the efficacy of biocides for the control of parasitic arthropods, registered by the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products, and has performed nearly 80 parasitological, faunal and ecological expert reports. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Acarological Society, as well as a member of the Gdańsk Scientific Society, the Polish Laboratory Diagnostics Society, the Polish Parasitological Society, and the Association of Bison Lovers. She is a recipient of the Award of the Gdańsk Scientific Society, the Dr. Eng. J. Masłowski Award, awards of the JM Rector of UG, and national decorations.