BIO

Head of the oncological mathematics department

I graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw (major in mathematics) and I also defended my doctorate there on mathematical modeling of various aspects of cancer processes. In the so-called in the meantime, I also defended my doctorate in technical sciences at the Silesian University of Technology. Since 2012, I have been employed in the Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling of Physiological Processes at the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, of which I have been head since 2018. In the years 2014-2016 I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Moffitt Cancer Center in the United States. From September 2019, I also took over the management of the new Computational Oncology Department at the Oncology Center – Instytut im. Maria Skłodowskiej ‑ Curie in Warsaw.

As a mathematician working in the field of medicine, I try to support biologists, doctors, physicists and chemists with my knowledge of my field. I use mathematical methods to understand how gene mutations work together and how they affect cancer growth, and how various cardiovascular pathologies translate into the characteristics of pulse wave propagation in the arterial system.