Category: Past members

Chris Dainty, Emeritus Professor

Description

Chris Dainty is Emeritus Professorial Research Associate at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and also holds Emeritus appointments at Imperial College London and The University of Galway (Ireland).  In recent years he worked in industry at Xperi Corporation.

Professor Dainty’s research interests are in optical imaging, scattering, wave propagation and adaptive optics. He has co-authored ≈180 peer- reviewed papers and given over 300 conference presentations. Many of his research projects have been related to new instrumentation for imaging and measuring the optical properties of the eye. His teams at Imperial College and NUI Galway built a number of AO vision simulators for psychophysical studies, as well as other instruments for imaging and metrology in the eye, including one that resulted in a successful start-up. He has interacted extensively with industry, including vision care companies such as Abbott Medical Optics, Alcon, Imagine Eyes, J&J Vistakon and Zeiss Jena. 

In the course of his career, Prof Dainty graduated 65 PhD students, and mentored over 50 post-docs.

Prof Dainty is the recipient of numerous international awards and prizes, most recently the 2017 Optica (formerly OSA) Leadership Award, and in March 2008 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Egidijus Auksorius, PhD

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Research Areas:

Developing Fourier-domain full-field OCT systems for human retinal and corneal imaging in vivo.

Description

PhD in Physics. Experienced in design, construction and application of complex optical imaging systems, such as OCT, super-resolution STED microscopy and fluorescence lifetime imaging.

My current research interests are developing Fourier-domain full-field OCT systems for human retinal and corneal imaging in vivo.

Magdalena Banach-Orłowska, PhD

University Degree:

PhD, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (PAS)

Position at ICTER:

Group Coordinator & Lab Manager

Research Areas:

Intracellular Signaling and Regulation of Gene Expression in Cancer Cells

Dr. Magdalena Banach-Orłowska graduated from Biotechnology at the University of Warsaw. She obtained a PhD degree in Biochemistry at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (awarded with the Prime Minister award for a PhD thesis). She continued her scientific work as a postdoctoral fellow and senior researcher at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, and at the Medical University of Warsaw.

She led two scientific grants as a PI, co-promoted one PhD and published thirteen papers including twelve original (Scopus preview – Banach-Orłowska, Magdalena – Author details – Scopus). Her scientific interests focus mostly on intracellular signaling and regulation of gene expression in cancer cells.

Bartosz Banasik, MSc

University Degree:

MSc, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Scalable Bioinformatic Tools, Software, Analysis, Machine Learning

E-mail: bbanasik@ichf.edu.pl
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0003-2845-0751

Bartosz obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 2019 at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and a Master of Science in Big Data Analytics degree in 2020 at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

During the master’s studies, Bartosz started working in Dolby Laboratories where he took a Build and Release Engineer position, responsible for managing multiple CI pipelines automation with static and dynamic instances, part of them running in the cloud.

The most important educational/scientific achievement of Bartosz so far is the Chancellor’s Scholarship and “Honourable Mention from the Fundamental Problems of Technology Faculty Dean“ for very good academic results.

Bartosz’s role at the CGG is to develop and implement novel scalable bioinformatic tools, software, analysis strategies and machine learning algorithms to handle the complexity of single-cell genomics data.

Jakub Bogusławski, PhD

University Degree:

PhD, from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland.

Position at ICTER:

Visiting Researcher

Research Areas:

ultrafast fiber lasers, lasers for biophotonics, two-photon imaging of the eye, multiphoton microscopy, optoelectronics,

Description

His scientific interests are two-photon excited fluorescence imaging of the eye and building novel, femtosecond flight sources for this application. Jakub’s primary expertise is designing and developing lasers and electro-optical systems to facilitate new eye diagnostics and care capabilities.

Holding a doctoral degree, Jakub is currently a Visiting Researcher working in biophotonics, developing novel light sources and imaging modalities for eye imaging and diagnostics.

Onur Çetinkaya, BEng

University Degree:

Bachelor Engineering degree, Celal Bayar University in Turkey

Position at ICTER:

Technician

Research Areas:

Air-puff and OCT Based Diagnostic Device for Early Diagnosis of Keratoconus Disease

Description

Technician, Bachelor Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering, Celal Bayar University in Turkey (2015). Now in ICTER labs, he is working on an air-puff and OCT based diagnostic device for early diagnosis of keratoconus disease.

Piotr Ciąćka, PhD

University Degree:

PhD in Physics from the University of Warsaw

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Biophotonics

E-mail: pciacka@ichf.edu.pl
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0002-0553-8729
Description

Piotr Ciąćka is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of biophotonics, designing and building a novel surgical ophthalmic microscope-integrated OCT system and tools in a platform for intraoperative ophthalmic image guidance of anterior and posterior ocular micro-surgeries.

Chinjusha, MSc

University Degree:

Msc, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore, India

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Data Analysis Strategies of Single-Cell Genomics Data

E-mail: chinjusha@ichf.edu.pl
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0001-6789-3948

Chinjusha obtained her Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology in 2016 at the P A College of Engineering affiliated under Visvesvaraya Technological University, Mangalore, India and a Master of Science degree in 2019 at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore, India.

After her master studies Chinjusha worked on several projects focused on: understanding the vast diversity of neuroblasts and accomplishing better management of malaria in India, using comparative genomics (in collaboration with Tata Institute for Genetics and Society).

The most important achievements of Chinjusha so far include: the scientific article in the  Journal Frontiers in Genetics, Computational Genomics (doi: 10.3389/fgene.2020.565626) and the award for the Best Outgoing Student from the department of Biotechnology.

Chinjusha’s role at the CGG is to design and execute data analysis strategies of single-cell genomics data to explore eye disease mechanisms.