Category: Research staff

Anna Galińska, MSc

University Degree:

MSc in Experimental Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw,

MSc in of Chemical Biotechnology, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw,

 

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Molecular Biology and Genetics

PhD Student, performs research in the area of molecular biology and genetics

Luca Gessa, MSc

University Degree:

University of Sassari in Biological Sciences, Italy; University of Oslo, Norway

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Proteins Involved in the Visual Cycle

Luca Gessa completed the bachelor degree at the University of Sassari in Biological Sciences in Italy. Then he completed the master degree in Molecular Biosciences at the University of Oslo, Norway, with the thesis: Characterization of an evolutionary conserved human methyltransferase. The result obtained during the master thesis are included in a manuscript published in 2021 (doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab088).

He has joined the Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER in March 2021. His research will focus on the structure and the functions the proteins involved in the visual cycle.

Sathi Goswami, PhD

University Degree:

PhD degree in biophysical chemistry from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Calcutta, India

Position at ICTER:

Post-Doc

Dr. Sathi Goswami obtained her PhD in biophysical chemistry from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, under the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India in 2018. During her PhD she studied the interaction of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and their metal complexes with DNA and proteins through spectroscopic and imaging studies. She also studied the effect of these drugs and complexes on standard cancer cells HeLa to demonstrate the changes in the epigenetic level.

Then she joined as a postdoctoral fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India in 2018. In postdoctoral studies her research was focused on the characterization of drug-protein interaction using different spectroscopy. In September 2022, she joined Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER as a postdoctoral fellow to work on the structure and functions of various proteins involved in the visual cycle.

Krzysztof Gromada, MSc

University Degree:

Master of Robotics, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Mechatronics

Position at ICTER:

Robotics Software Architect

Research Areas:

Software engineering, robotics, electronics

E-mail: kgromada@ichf.edu.pl
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0003-3125-7661

Krzysztof Gromada obtained a Bachelor’s and Master of Robotics from the Faculty Of Mechatronics at the Warsaw University of Technology. He is also a PhD researcher focused on synthetic aperture radars imagery processing and autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles navigation.

His professional achievements include the co-development of the PGZ-19R ‘Orlik’ UAV system, next-gen household robot system, and Porsche Taycan electric safety metrology systems.

In his spare time, Krzysztof does acrobatics, builds guitars and other handcrafts (some can be viewed on his personal YouTube channel), but also plays PC games.

Krzysztof joined the IDoc Team in April 2022 in the position of Robotics Software Architect. His main tasks focus on:

 – Software architecture and development at IDOC project.

 – Development of algorithms for robot control, signal processing, and computer vision (including AI).  

– Robotics-related support in the project.

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@madrobotchris.

Karol Karnowski, PhD

University Degree:

PhD in Biophysics, Nicolaus Copernicus University

Position at ICTER:

Project Leader

Research Areas:

Biomedical Applications of Photonics

Project Leader and Senior Researcher in biomedical applications of photonics, is developing novel tools and methods for: enhancement of imaging contrast, dedicated screening or diagnosis of various pathologies, or general research of biological samples.

His current focus is on enhancing volumetric optical imaging by various sources of contrast (motion, polarization, mechanical). He is also working hard to advance the space of miniature, fiber-based imaging probes for various imaging techniques.

Oliwia Kaczkoś, MSc

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

visual psychophysics, two-photon vision, optometry, vision sciences

E-mail: okaczkos@ichf.edu.pl
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0001-9819-332X

In 2022, she graduated with a master’s degree in Optometry from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. As of October 2022, she has started her doctoral studies at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, during which she plans to focus on studying the phenomenon of two-photon vision. On a day-to-day basis, she also works as an optometrist, where she studies, among other things, refraction and the parameters of patients’ binocular vision.

Piotr Kasprzycki PhD

University Degree:

Doctor of Philosophy – PhD, Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Physical Optics and Biophotonics Group led by Prof. M. Wojtkowski at the Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences. I joined this Group in 2019 after obtaining my Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Warsaw.

I specialize in biomedical imaging, polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography, quantitative micro-elastography, and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. These advanced techniques pave the way for groundbreaking discoveries in medicine.

Vineeta Kaushik, PhD

University Degree:

PhD in Biophysics from the University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Proteins Involved in the Visual Cycle

E-mail: Post-doc

Vineeta Kaushik obtained her PhD in Biophysics from the University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India in 2020. During her doctoral studies she has experienced in biophysical and biochemical characterization of archaeal protein along with specialized in bioinformatics approach. She joined the Integrated Structural Biology lab at ICTER in March 2021 as a Postdoc fellow to work on the structure and functional elucidation of various proteins involved in the visual cycle.