Current academic appointment
- 06/2002- : Professor, head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland (full-time appointment)
Previous professional roles and leadership development
- 2018: Leadership Academy for Poland (educational program of the Center for Advanced Leadership)
- 10/2006-09/2020: visiting professor, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznan, Poland (25% appointment)
- 06/2010-05/2011: deputy director, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (1-year rolling position)
- 1-2/2008: visiting professor, University of Tokyo, Japan (sabbatical)
- 10/2004-9/2006: assistant professor (adjunct), Bioinformatics Laboratory, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- 03/2002-05/2002: Acting Head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at the IIMCB
- 02/2001 - 02/2002: Group Leader, Laboratory of Bioinformatics, IIMCB, Warsaw, Poland (with Dr. L Rychlewski)
- 06-09/2001 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, USA (with Dr. EV Koonin)
- 12/1999 - 02/2001: Research Scientist, Bioinformatics Unit, IIMCB, Warsaw, Poland (with Dr. L Rychlewski)
- 10/1998 - 07/2000: Senior Research Assistant, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA (with Dr. L.C. Lutter)
Membership in advisory bodies and professional associations – present
- European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (member, 11.2015-05.2020, expert 06.2020- )
- Advisory panel to the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the evaluation of the quality of scientific activity (2024-)
- Life Science Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania (Scientific Advisory Board, member, 2023-)
- Łukasiewicz Research Network – PORT Polish Center for Technology Development, Wrocław, Poland (scientific advisor, 10.2019-)
- University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (University Council, chairman, 05.2019-12.2020, member 01.2021-12.2024)
- International Centre for Research on Innovative Bio-based Materials (ICRI-BioM), Łódź, Poland (International Scientific Council, member, 2018-)
- Association of ERC Grantees, AERG (founding member, board member, 09.2020-)
- EU Science Diplomacy Working Group (11.2023-)
- Academia Europaea (member, 2018-), European Molecular Biology Organization (member, 2018-; EMBO Policy Advisory Board member 2023-), Polish Academy of Sciences (corresp. member, 2016-)
- European Science Advisors Forum (representative of Poland, 10.2017-, member of the ESAF sounding board committee, 05.2019-)
- Re-Imagine Europa’s Task Force on “Sustainable Agriculture and Innovation” - Expert Committee (member, 2021-)
- Polish Society for Bioinformatics, PTBI (founding member, vice-president 2007-2010, president 2011-2013, honorary member 2022-), Society of Bioinformatics in Northern Europe, SocBiN (board member, 2004-), RNA Society (member, 2007-), International Society for Computational Biology, ISCB (member, 2001-, Sr. Member 2015-)
Membership in advisory bodies and professional associations – past
- Committee for Science Evaluation, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (member, 2019-2023)
- Science Policy Committee, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (member 2014-2016-2018, chairman 04-10.2015, 06-12.2016)
- Council of the National Science Congress, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (member, 09.2016-01.2018)
- Advisory Group on Preventing, Counteracting and Combating COVID-19, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (member, 03-09.2020)
- Scientific Committee of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (member, 2013-2016)
- EC Advisory Group on European Research Infrastructures including e-Infrastructures, member (2013-2015)
- Science Promotion Council, Polish Academy of Sciences, RUN-PAN (2013-2016)
- Young Academy, Polish Academy of Sciences, AMU-PAN (2011-2016)
- Science Europe, Life, Environmental and Geo-Sciences (LEGS) Scientific Committee, member (2013-2015)
- Committee of Molecular Cell Biology, Committee of Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences (2016-2019)
- Committee of Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology, Committee Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (2008-2011, 2011-2015)
- Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland (Scientific Council member, 2015-2018, 2019-2022)
Editorial activities
- Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research (2013-)
- Series editor, Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology (Springer Verlag, 2009-2013)
- Deputy Section Editor, BMC Bioinformatics (2010-2014), Editorial Advisor (2014-)
- Editorial board member of Nucleic Acids Research (2005-2012), Advances in Bioinformatics (2008-2011), Journal of Applied Genetics (2004-2020), the Database Journal (2008-2015), Journal of Nucleic Acids (2008-2013), Biology Direct (2013-2018)
International awards and professional distinctions
- 2019 André Mischke Young Academy of Europe Prize for Science and Policy
- 2018 Elected as a member of Academia Europaea
- 2018 Elected as EMBO member
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant (2011-2015) – first ERC Starting Grant in biological sciences awarded for a proposal from Poland
- 2006 Young Researcher Award in Structural and Evolutionary Biology of the Visegrad Group Academies of Sciences
- 2003-2005 EMBO & HHMI Young Investigator Programme Award
National awards and professional distinctions
- 2022 Honorary membership, Polish Bioinformatics Society
- 2019 Honorary award "For Merits for Inventiveness" awarded by the Prime Minister at the request of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland
- 2017, 2020 Awards of the Ministry of Science for Organizational Achievements
- 2016 Elected as a corresponding member to Polish Academy of Sciences – (youngest /41/ member of the Academy in 2016)
- 2016 Crystal Brussels Sprout – special award of the National Contact Point of the EU
- 2015 Parnas Award of the Polish Biochemical Society – 1 awardee per year (for the best publication in biochemistry)
- 2014 Award of the Polish National Science Center (NCN) – 1 awardee per year in Life Sciences (for researchers under 40)
- 2014 MISTRZ Award from the Foundation for Polish Science – 8 awardees per 4 years in Life and Geo Sciences
- 2014 Award of the Prime Minister for Outstanding Research Achievements – 6 awardees in all disciplines of science in 2014
- 2014 Selected as one of “25 leaders for the next 25 years” by “Teraz Polska” magazine of the Polish Promotional Emblem Foundation
- 2014 Award of the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- 2013 Won the national plebiscite “Poles with Verve” in in the Science category
- 2013 Award of the Polish Genetics Society (coauthor in the best Polish genetics-related publication in 2012)
- 2012 Award of the Ministry of Science for Outstanding Research Achievements
- 2011, 2013, 2014 Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Special Award for Top Performance in Publishing High Impact Research Articles
- 2009 Award of the Ministry of Science for Research Achievements (Individual work)
- 2009 Fellowship for Outstanding Young Scientists (Ministry of Science, Republic of Poland)
- 2007, 2008 Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Award for Research Achievement (2007 Team work, 2008 Individual work)
- 2006 Award of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland for the D.Habil thesis
- 2003, 2004 Fellowship for Young Scientists from the Foundation for Polish Science
- 2002 Award of the Polish Genetics Society (first author of the best Polish genetics-related publication in 2001)
- 2001 Award of Sigma-Aldrich and the Polish Biochemical Society (sole author of the best Polish publication on nucleic acid biochemistry in 2000)
Bibliography
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