Category: Research staff

Katarzyna Komar, PhD

University Degree:

PhD, Polish Academy of Sciences, The Szewalski Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery in Gdansk

Position at ICTER:

Senior Researcher

Research Areas:

visual psychophysics, eye-imaging, non-linear optics, laser spectroscopy

E-mail: kkomar@ichf.edu.pl
Scopus Profile: 12241788500
Researcher's ORCID Id: 0000-0003-0229-3735

Exploration of two-photon vision, i.e., a phenomenon of perception of pulsed near-infrared lasers due to two-photon absorption in visual pigments. Focuses on developing optical systems and methods for psychophysical testing of this newly discovered way of perception of light and on integrating these methods into ophthalmic imaging systems.

Katarzyna Kordecka,  PhD

University Degree:

PhD, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, University of Agriculture in Cracow

 

Position at ICTER:

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Areas:

Neurophysiology, Neuronal Network Processing, In vivo Electrophysiological Recordings

Maciej Kostałkowski, MSc

University Degree:

MSc in Biomedical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft,  Netherlands

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Machine Learning

Ph.D student, his range of activity includes device prototyping, creating machine learning algorithms and tissue preparation for the imaging.

Agata Kotulska, PhD Eng.

University Degree:

Doctoral degree from the Wlodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperatures and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroclaw (2022). Master and Engineer degree from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, majoring in Technical Physics, with a specialization in Nanoengineering.

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Research Areas:

Biomedical Imaging, optical spectroscopy, nanoengineering.

Agata Kotulska’s engineering and master’s thesis was carried out in the Fiber Optics Group, and concerned the theoretical and experimental investigation of the properties of transmission parameters of optical fibers.

As a continuation of her scientific work, Ms. Agata Kotulska carried out research in the field of optical spectroscopy, at the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław.

Ms. Agata Kotulska’s doctoral thesis, whose supervisor was Prof. Artur Bednarkiewicz, concerned the luminescence properties of nanocrystals doped with lanthanide ions. The goal of the conducted research was to understand the relationship between the composition and compositional architecture with the functionality of such nanoparticles for modern applications of luminescent labels. The thematic scope of dissertation included the characterization of the properties of Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and Photon Avalanche (PA) phenomena. Ms. Kotulska conduct experiments related to the aforementioned phenomena, including measurements of emission spectra and luminescence lifetimes, as well as providing physical models and analysis of the spectroscopic processes studied.

Currently, Dr. Kotulska is employed in the Optical Physics and Biophotonics group (Optical Imaging team) at ICTER as a Postdoctoral Fellow.

In her free time from research, Dr. Agata Kotulska enjoys hiking in the mountains.

Wiktor Kulesza, MSc

University Degree:

Faculty of Mechatronics at Warsaw University of Technology

Position at ICTER:

PhD student

Research Areas:

Imaging Systems

Wiktor Kulesza owns an MSc degree in Photonics Engineering from the Faculty of Mechatronics at Warsaw University of Technology. His Master’s thesis realized at the IDoc group focused on the fundus imaging system to aid small animal alignment in a preclinical optoretinographer prototype. He is currently a PhD student at ICTER.

Nelam Kumar, MS Pharm

University Degree:

MS Pharm

Position at ICTER:

PhD Student

Research Areas:

Protein purification, retinal guanylyl cyclases and their modulators

He has done a M.S. (Pharm.) in Biotechnology from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), India. During his master’s thesis, he worked on host pathogen (M.tb) interactions. Later he has joined Dr. R. Ravishankar’s group in CSIR-CDRI, India where he was first introduced to structural biology. The structure biology completely turned his research fascination into passion. Now he is pursuing a PhD in ICTER. He will elucidate the structural complexity of retinal guanylyl cyclases and their modulators for better understanding of eye diseases during his doctoral studies.

Adam Kurek

Position at ICTER:

Software specialist

Adam Kurek is a Computer Science student at the University of Ecology and Management in Poland. He joined the IDoc team as an intern, and now continues his work as a software specialist. As the youngest member of IDoc project, Adam writes software for communications, user interfaces, operating system integration, and testing. In his spare time, he enjoys practicing taekwondo.

Kamil Liżewski, PhD

University Degree:

PhD Eng. – Warsaw University of Technology

Position at ICTER:

Post-doc

Research Areas:

Deep learning applications in biomedical optics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning Algorithms.

He received his PhD degree from Warsaw University of Technology. His PhD studies focused on developing new digital holographic microscopy techniques and systems for measurement microoptics.

After obtaining PhD degree, he cooperated with various commercial companies: Kongsberg Automotive, Difrotec. He previously worked as a data scientist at Transition Technologies S.A. where he gained experience in the areas of machine learning and deep learning.

At ICTER, he combines Deep Learning, software development experience, and photonics expertise to develop new or improve existing noninvasive biomedical imaging methods.