Multi-Pole Approach to Structural Science

Employment: Technical University of Łódź, 1979-1990; National Research Council of Canada, 1991-1998; BioMep Inc., 1999-2001; Canadian Light Source, University of Saskatchewan, 2001- present.

Education - M.Sc., Technical University of Łódź, 1979; Ph.D., Technical University of Łódź, 1988; postdoctoral fellowship, Medical Foundation of Buffalo (now Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute), USA, 1991; Habilitation (D.Sc.), Technical University of Łódź, 1994.

Fields of interest: application of synchrotron radiation to structural biology including: structure-function relationships of biological molecules, mechanisms of enzymatic activities (including stereoselective enzymatic reactions), penetration of biological membranes, rational drug design and drug delivery systems, development and refinement of synchrotron-based phase determination techniques as well as synchrotron instrumentation

Techniques: chemical crystallography, macromolecular crystallography (MX), powder diffraction, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS).

~90 publications, ~3,450 total citations, H-index 18

Co-founder of the Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF), member of the IUCr Commission on Synchrotron Radiation, co-founder and President of the Polish-Canadian Scientific Society of Saskatoon, Member of the Program Committee for CIHR-THRUST, member of the Proteomics Research in Interactions and Structure of Macromolecules (PRISM ) at the University of Saskatchewan.