About me
I have a lifelong passion for science and the natural world. I am a curious person who enjoys learning new things, investigating scientific problems, and synthesizing my findings into words and images. As a scientist at heart, I find great satisfaction in the creative process of coding, where every challenge is an opportunity to learn and grow. Over the course of my professional career, I have worked in academia, public educational institutions, software houses, and pharmaceutical companies. I am fluent in Polish (my native language), English and Spanish. In the following sections, you can find a more detailed description of my professional experience.
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Software development
During my research career, I developed a set of programming skills, which initially served me
mostly as a tool for analysis of output data from quantum-mechanical calculations. As I gained more
experience, I became increasingly passionate about coding itself, and in recent years,
I decided to transition to software engineering as a full-time job.
I am currently employed as a Python developer at
Łukasiewicz Institute of Innovative
Technologies, where I work on backend web applications and participate in machine learning
research. My other experience in this area includes data analysis and development of machine learning
models at a bioinformatics startup, as well as backend and frontend web programming at a software house.
Most important tools I am familiar with (in no particular order):
Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI, Flask, React.js, pytest, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn,
Tensorflow, matplotlib, PostgreSQL, Git, Docker, AWS (Lambda, S3, Cognito, ECR), Serverless framework.
A few examples of projects which I developed in my spare time can be found on my
GitHub profile.
Chemical research
I was involved with chemistry as a subject of study and research for 15 years.
In 2018 I obtained a PhD degree in chemical sciences at
University of Warsaw. My research was focused on compounds of silver and their potential
application as novel high-temperature superconductors. As part of Prof. Wojciech Grochala's
team at University of Warsaw's Center of New Technologies, I approached this topic from a variety of
angles, including photoelectron spectroscopy, high-pressure crystallography, and—in recent
years—computational modelling of new hypothetical silver- and hydride-based materials.
As of ,
I have written or contributed to 18 scientific papers,
a complete list of which can be found on
Google
Scholar.
My personal highlights: our visionary 2020
paper
in Physical Review Materials (distinguished as Editor's Choice by the journal) and a 2021
follow-up in Angewandte
Chemie, describing
the chemical capacitor: a proposed new type of functional material.
Science communication
Throughout my professional life, I have had many opportunities to discuss science with diverse groups of
people and using different means of communication. I worked as an explainer at Copernicus Science Center
in Warsaw, where I would engage in conversations with visitors of all ages in order to enhance their
experience and explain scientific topics to them in an accessible manner. I have written many scientific
articles for specialized journals and delivered talks at international conferences.
As part of my PhD studies, I taught and assisted undergraduate students in laboratory classes.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked at Pfizer, where I participated in the vaccine rollout
in the European Union as a medical information consultant.
Hobbies
In my spare time, I enjoy playing ultimate frisbee, travelling, sailing, and reading (check out the link to my Goodreads profile below).
