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.

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

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.

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

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

Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0002-0553-8729

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.

Witalis Domitrz, MSc

University Degree:

MSc, University of Oxford

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Strategies for analysis of single cell genomics data

Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0003-1392-5005

Witalis Domitrz obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science in 2020 at the University of Warsaw and a Master of Science in Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science in 2021 at the University of Oxford.

During his studies, Witalis explored various areas including Machine Learning and Quantum Computing. Some of his projects include improving methods for quantum circuits optimization and training deep reinforcement learning agents in the Google Football environment. He also interned in various companies in which he got experience in both research and software engineering roles.

His notable achievements are receiving the best poster award for his poster at the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School and receiving the Rector’s Scholarship for the best students every year during his studies in Warsaw.

The major task of Witalis at the Computational Genomics Group is to develop and implement novel machine learning algorithms for analysis and visualization of high-dimensional single-cell multiomics data.

Karolina Drygas

Position at ICTER:

Office Assistant

Description

She studies aerospace engineering at the Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering of the Poznań University of Technology.

She is most interested in non-destructive testing in the aviation industry and this is what Karolina would like to do in the near future. So far she has gained the most experience in accounting and ground handling of aircraft.

Filomena Kowalska, MEc

University Degree:

Warsaw School of Economics

Position at ICTER:

Group Coordinator & Lab Manager

Research Areas:

Administration and Finances

Filomena Kowalska, MEc, group coordinator, is an experienced and committed project manager with over 14 years of professional experience in the field of administration and finances and also internal regulations and control, acquired in international companies with direct cooperation with project teams. She graduated from Warsaw School of Economics.

Joanna Krwawicz, PhD

University Degree:

Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland, PhD degree in Biochemistry at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw, Poland

Position at ICTER:

Group Coordinator & Lab Manager

Research Areas:

Biochemical and Biophysical Protein Characterisation

Graduated from Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland. She obtained a PhD degree in Biochemistry at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw, Poland. She continued her scientific work as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Warsaw, next at IBB, and later on as a senior researcher at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) in Warsaw, Poland.

She moved to carry out scientific work at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, UK. She is experienced in protein purification and molecular and cell biology techniques and her scientific interests focus mostly on biochemical and biophysical protein characterisation. She led one scientific grant as a PI (Polish-Norwegian Grant). She also promoted two master’s thesis.