Uniwesytet Medyczny w Lublinie

Associate Professor

Anna is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Bioanalitics at the Medical University of Lublin. She obtained the degree of habilitated doctor in chemical sciences from the Faculty of Chemistry at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. As a pre‐doctoral Marie Curie Fellow, she had an opportunity to expand her knowledge and experience working at the University of Leeds, UK. Her fields of interest involve analytical chemistry with an emphasis on the applications of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry in biomedical, pharmaceutical, environmental and food sciences. Her research interests particularly focus on proteomics in food authenticity testing. She is a recipient of the Chairman of the Lublin Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences Award for the best scientific paper by young researchers in the Lublin region in 2020 and 2021. She is a co-inventor of three patents.

Assistant Professor

Agata is a researcher at the Medical University of Lublin, Department of Dietetics and Bioanalytics. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Medical University of Lublin (2023) and a Master’s degree in Biotechnology (2018) from John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her research focuses on peptidomics and metabolomics, utilizing mass spectrometry-based analysis, with a particular emphasis on the identification and authentication of food products. She was the principal investigator of a young researchers’ grant at the Medical University of Lublin. Agata has also been involved in research projects funded by the National Science Centre and The National Centre for Research and Development. She has gained international experience through a Short-Term Scientific Visit at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Assistant Professor

Adrian, holding a degree of Medical Doctor, currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioanalytics at the Medical University of Lublin. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Medical Faculty of the Medical University of Lodz, where he studied free fatty acid receptors as a pharmacological target in inflammatory bowel diseases. In 2020, he received the “Diamond Grant'” which he is currently implementing in the Department of Bioanalytics at the Medical University of Lublin. As a part of the grant, he conducts metabolomics and proteomics studies based on liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to assess the effects induced by caffeine and topiramate, and their mutual interactions, in a model of pententrazol-induced seizures in zebrafish larvae. Adrian is also a multiple winner of the Minister of Health scholarship programme. He completed the Polish Clinical Scholars Research Training organized by Harvard Medical School.

Assistant Professor

Kacper earned his M.Sc. in Forensic Chemistry from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin in 2017, followed by a Ph.D. in 2023. He completed a research internship at INESC-MN in Portugal in 2017 and held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin (USA) in 2024, where he expanded his expertise in the chemical composition of air measurements under the supervision of Prof. Pawel K. Misztal. Currently, Kacper is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Biomedicine, Medical University of Lublin. His research interests encompass thin-film formation/deposition and solid surface characterization, drug interactions with model membranes, biocompatibility studies, and food analysis using chromatography and mass spectrometry techniques.

Assistant Professor                   

Grzegorz graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the University of Life Sciences in Lublin in 2015, where he also held a Research Assistant position in the Department and Clinic of Animal Internal Diseases, as a clinician in dermatology and oncology. Subsequently, he pursued doctoral studies at the Medical University of Lublin, culminated in a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences and Health Sciences in 2023 with his work on the application of vibrational spectroscopy in bone formation assessment on ceramic biomaterials. He is a postgraduate degree holder of Clinical Research: Management, Monitoring, and Medical Expertise. He participated in internships at Stockholm University, the University of Pisa, and the University of Naples. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioanalytics. Dr. Kalisz's research encompasses various domains, including biomaterials, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, omics and data science. His latest work encompasses zebrafish larvae disease modelling and secondary prevention. DIY and bike enthusiast, member of The International Society for Clinical Spectroscopy, Polish Cardiac Society and Polish Zebrafish Society.

Junior Technical Specialist

Alicja holds a M.Sc. degree in biotechnology, having graduated from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Her research interests focus on metabolomics and proteomics: food authenticity testing and adulteration detections, and in particular on detecting new heat stable specific peptides markers for various commonly-consumed animal species, using LC/MS methods. 

Post-doc

Dr Adam Włodarczyk is an analytical chemist and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Bioanalytics, Medical University of Lublin. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemical sciences from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Following graduation, he worked at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University as a research technician and later as an Assistant, contributing to numerous research projects and maintaining advanced scientific instrumentation.  He completed a research semester at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, in the laboratory of Prof. Peter Eilbracht, where he participated in studies on the hydroformylation of cyclic phosphines. His research interests combine organic chemistry with modern analytical sciences, with particular expertise in phosphorus chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, and the application of advanced analytical techniques in chemical and biomedical sciences.

Ph. D. Student

Weronika Całuj holds an M.Sc. degree in biotechnology from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate within the project, where her doctoral work focuses on the main research topics of the project. Her research interests include metabolomics and proteomics, particularly in the field of food authenticity and the application of LC–MS techniques.

Student-trainee

Łucja is an Undergraduate Biomedical Science student from the University of Surrey, currently undertaking an internship at the Medical University in Lublin focused on food authenticity. Her interests lie in immunology and public health, with a particular interest in zebrafish as an ethical model organism. Building on her internship, she hopes to explore how common supermarket food additives impact development and immunity in zebrafish as a translational model for human health in her final year project