Dawid Borycki, PhD
PhD, Nicolaus Copernicus University
PICO Group Leader
Optical Imaging and Sensing, Computational Optics
Description
Dawid Borycki, D.Sc., Ph.D. specializes in biomedical optics, statistical optics, and software engineering. Dawid graduated with honors from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland (MSc. in 2007, Ph.D. 2011). In 2022 he received habilitation degree (D.Sc.) from the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences.
He co-authored more than 25 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as Optica, Scientific Reports, Biomedical Express, Optics Express, and Optics Letters. He also holds two patents issued by the US patent office. In addition, he published 11 books and over 60 articles on programming, cloud technologies, and machine learning.
Dawid has more than 14 years of experience in research and development. He specializes in the field of biomedical engineering, especially in biomedical imaging. He completed scientific projects in various scientific institutions (Nicolaus Copernicus University, University of California Davis, Polish Academy of Sciences). In addition, he served as a consultant in various commercial companies: Canon, Optopol Technology, Optina Diagnostics.
His most outstanding scientific achievement is the creation of novel optical methods which use light interferometry. The first one, interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (iNIRS), is for non-invasive brain sensing. The second one, spatiotemporal optical coherence tomography (STOC-T), is for ultra-fast human retinal imaging at cellular resolution.
At ICTER, Dawid developed computational algorithms for STOC-T.
Publication list
- „Single-shot, depth-encoded multiplexed OCT for multi-spot tracking of induced transient corneal dynamics”. Karol Karnowski, Jadwiga Milkiewicz, Onur Cetinkaya, Angela Pachacz, Ewa Mączyńska-Walkowiak, Patryk Młyniuk, Andrea Curatolo, Kamil Liżewski, Ahmed Abass, Dawid Borycki, Bartłomiej Kałużny, Susana Marcos, Ahmed Elsheikh, Ireneusz Grulkowski, and Maciej Wojtkowski (2026). Biomedical Optics Express 10.1364/BOE.596342 (opens in new tab)
- „Computational aberration correction enables full-thickness retinal imaging with adaptive optics optical coherence tomography”. Dawid Borycki, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Maciej Wojtkowski (2026). Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 10.1016/j.bbe.2026.02.002 (opens in new tab)
- „Interferometric speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (iSCOS) in continuous-wave parallel interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (CW-πNIRS)”. Klaudia Nowacka-Pieszak, Speed Samaei, Dawid Borycki (2025). Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 10.1016/j.bbe.2025.11.001 (opens in new tab)
- „A hybrid time-of-flight-resolved parallel interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (parallel iNIRS) with a fast two-dimensional and a single-channel iNIRS”. Marcin Marzejon, Klaudia Nowacka-Pieszak, Michał Dąbrowski, and Dawid Borycki (2025). Technical Digest Series 10.1364/ECBO.2025.Tu1B.2 (opens in new tab)
- „Imaging of retinal ganglion cells and photoreceptors using Spatio-Temporal Optical Coherence Tomography (STOC-T) without hardware-based adaptive optics”. Marta Mikuła-Zdańkowska, Dawid Borycki, Piotr Węgrzyn, Karolis Adomavičius, Egidijus Auksorius, Maciej Wojtkowski (2025). Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 10.1016/j.bbe.2025.01.001 (opens in new tab)
- „In vivo volumetric analysis of retinal vascular hemodynamics in mice with spatio-temporal optical coherence tomography”. Piotr Węgrzyn, Wiktor Kulesza, Maciej Wielgo, Sławomir Tomczewski, Anna Galińska, Bartłomiej Bałamut, Katarzyna Kordecka, Onur Cetinkaya, Andrzej Foik, Robert J. Zawadzki, Dawid Borycki, Maciej Wojtkowski, Andrea Curatolo (2024). STAR Protocols 10.1117/1.NPh.11.4.045003 (opens in new tab)
- „Time-domain diffuse correlation spectroscopy at large source detector separation for cerebral blood flow recovery”. Neda Mogharari, Stanisław Wojtkiewicz, Dawid Borycki, Adam Liebert, Michał Kacprzak (2024). Biomedical Optics Express 10.1364/BOE.523514 (opens in new tab)
- „Multiwavelength laser doppler holography (MLDH) in spatiotemporal optical coherence tomography (STOC-T)”. Dawid Borycki, Egidijus Auksorius, Piotr Węgrzyn, Kamil Liżewski, Sławomir Tomczewski, Ieva Žičkienė, Karolis Adomavičius, Karol Karnowski, Maciej Wojtkowski (2024). 10.1016/j.bbe.2024.03.002 (opens in new tab)
- „Imaging the retinal and choroidal vasculature using Spatio-Temporal Optical Coherence Tomography (STOC-T)”. Kamil Liżewski, Slawomir Tomczewski, Dawid Borycki, Piotr Węgrzyn, Maciej Wojtkowski, (2024). Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering 10.1016/j.bbe.2023.12.002 (opens in new tab)
- „spinDrop: a droplet microfluidic platform to maximise single-cell sequencing information content”. Joachim De Jonghe, Tomasz S Kaminski, David B Morse, Marcin Tabaka, Anna L Ellermann, Timo N Kohler, Gianluca Amadei, Charlotte E Handford, Gregory M Findlay, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Sarah A Teichmann, Florian Hollfelder (2023). Nature Communications 10.1038/s41467-023-40322-w (opens in new tab)
- „Spatio-temporal optical coherence tomography (STOC-T) for high-resolution imaging of the human and mouse retina in vivo”. D. Borycki, P. Węgrzyn, A. Egidijus, W. Kulesza, S. Tomczewski, A. Curatolo, and M. Wojtkowski, (2023). 10.1364/BODA.2023.DTh2A.2 (opens in new tab)
- „Spatio-temporal optical coherence tomography (STOC-T) focal plane adjustment in the mouse retina aided by a fundus camera”. W. Kulesza, K. Łuczkiewicz, P. Węgrzyn, S. Tomczewski, D. Borycki, P. Ciąćka, O. Cetinkaya, M. Wielgo, K. Kordecka, A. Galińska, E. Auksorius, A. Foik, R. Zawadzki, M. Wojtkowski, and A. Curatolo (2023). SPIE Proceedings 10.1117/12.2652956 (opens in new tab)
- „Frequency characterization of human photoreceptors’ response to light with the use of chirped flicker stimulus optoretinography”. S. Tomczewski, P. Wegrzyn, D. Borycki, M. Wielgo, A. Curatolo, and M. Wojtkowski (2023). SPIE Proceedings 10.1117/12.2649632 (opens in new tab)
- „High-speed, in vivo, volumetric imaging of mouse retinal tissue with spatio-temporal optical coherence tomography (STOC-T)”. P. Wegrzyn, S. Tomczewski, D. Borycki, W. Kulesza, M. Wielgo, K. Kordecka, A. Galińska, O. Cetinkaya, P. Ciąćka, E. Auksorius, A. Foik, R. Zawadzki, M. Wojtkowski, and A. Curatolo (2023). SPIE Proceedings 10.1117/12.2648893 (opens in new tab)
- „Functional and Structural Imaging of Retinal Tissue with Spatio-Temporal Optical Coherence Tomography (STOC-T)”. P. Węgrzyn, D. Borycki, S. Tomczewski, K. Liżewski, E. Auksorius, A. Curatolo, and M. Wojtkowski (2022). Technical Digest Series 10.1364/FIO.2022.FW7D.2 (opens in new tab)
- „Continuous-wave parallel interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (CW πNIRS) with a fast two-dimensional camera”. Saeed Samaei, Klaudia Nowacka, Anna Gerega, Żanna Pastuszak, and Dawid Borycki (2022). Biomedical Optics Express 10.1364/BOE.472643 (opens in new tab)
- „Spatio-Temporal Optical Coherence Tomography provides full thickness imaging of the chorioretinal complex”. Egidijus Auksorius, Dawid Borycki, Piotr Wegrzyn, Bartosz L. Sikorski, Kamil Lizewski, Ieva Zickiene, Mounika Rapolu, Karolis Adomavicius, Slawomir Tomczewski, Maciej Wojtkowski (2022). iScience 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105513 (opens in new tab)
- „In vivo frequency characterization of human photoreceptors response to a flicker stimulus with optoretinography”. S. Tomczewski, P. Wegrzyn, D. Borycki, A. Curatolo, and M. Wojtkowski (2022). Technical Digest Series 10.1364/OCT.2022.CS3E.1 (opens in new tab)
- „Light-adapted flicker optoretinograms captured with a spatio-temporal optical coherence-tomography (STOC-T) system”. Sławomir Tomczewski, Piotr Wegrzyn, Dawid Borycki, Egidijus. Auksorius, Maciej Wojtkowski, Andrea Curatolo (2022). Biomedical Optics Express 10.1364/BOE.444567 (opens in new tab)
- „Towards spatially mapped frequency response of human photoreceptor length variation with flicker optoretinography”. A. Curatolo, S. Tomczewski, P. Wegrzyn, D. Borycki, E. Auksorius, and M. Wojtkowski, (2022). SPIE Proceedings 10.1117/12.2609513 (opens in new tab)
- „Longitudinal in-vivo OCM imaging of glioblastoma development in the mouse brain”. Hubert Dolezyczek, Mounika Rapolu, Paulina Niedzwiedziuk, Karol Karnowski, Dawid Borycki, Joanna Dzwonek, Grzegorz Wilczynski, Monika Malinowska, and Maciej Wojtkowski (2020). Biomedical Optics Express 10.1364/BOE.400723 (opens in new tab)
- „Computational aberration correction in spatiotemporal optical coherence (STOC) imaging”. Dawid Borycki, Egidijus Auksorius, Piotr Wegrzyn, and Maciej Wojtkowski (2020). Optics Letters 10.1364/OL.384796 (opens in new tab)
- „Crosstalk-free volumetric in vivo imaging of a human retina with Fourier-domain full-field optical coherence tomography”. Egidijus Auksorius, Dawid Borycki, and Maciej Wojtkowski (2019). Biomedical Optics Express 10.1364/BOE.10.006390 (opens in new tab)
Research projects
Research groups
Parallel Interferometry and Computational Optics
Our group focuses on the development of advanced optical methods for functional imaging and sensing. Our mission is to strengthen and continue Polish traditions in Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) and diffuse optics.
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