Theoretical physicist with background in biophysics, interested in statistical mechanics of complex, biological and soft matter systems. Worked on anomalous diffusion and noise-driven dynamics, self-assembly in colloids, glass transition theory, gene expression pattern formation in developmental systems, optimal search and nanoparticle characterization problems. Combines expertise in analytically solvable mathematical models with skills in data analysis, numerical algorithms and programming.
Educational Background
- PhD in biophysical sciences
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2011–2015)- Thesis: ‘Microscopic models for spatially correlated phenomena in soft matter and bio-molecular systems’
- Derived new method of predicting entropic interactions in colloidal mixtures
- Investigated spatially correlated noise effect on diffusion in crowded media
- MSc in physics, specialization: biophysics
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2006–2011)
Professional Experience
- Visiting professor (Fulbright fellowship)
East Carolina University, Greenville NC, US (2024–2025)- Investigated active matter models and optimal search strategies in sperm cells dynamics
- Part-time academic teaching
- Postdoctoral researcher
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2019–2023)- Joined a newly-formed group and proposed a top-journal-published (PRL) research idea
- Determined general conditions for gene expression pattern stabilization in developmental systems explaining e.g. emergent noise-control mechanism in gap gene patterning in Drosophila
- Research associate
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2015–2019)- Developed collective diffusion theory with applications in glass transition and colloids physics
- Proposed a single-trajectory size estimation method for extracellular vesicle characterization in NTA
- Full-time academic teaching
Selected Publication
Modeling Diffusive Search by Non-Adaptive Sperm: Empirical and Computational Insights
PLoS Comput. Biol., 21, 4, e1012865 (2025)
Stable developmental patterns of gene expression without morphogen gradients
PLoS Comput. Biol., 20, 12, e1012555 (2024)
Stability of pattern formation in systems with dynamic source regions
Phys. Rev. Lett., 130, 9, 098402 (2023)
Effective one component model of binary mixtures: molecular arrest induced by the spatially correlated stochastic dynamics
Scientific Reports, 9, 19661, 1 (2019)
Non-Gaussian polymers described by alpha-stable chain statistics: model, effective interactions in binary mixtures and application to on-surface separation
Phys. Rev. E, 91, 5, 052602 (2015)
Analytical theory of effective interactions in binary colloidal systems of soft particles
Phys. Rev. E, 90, 3, 032303 (2014)
Awards and fellowships
- Fullbright SIR fellowship (2024–2025)
- Best poster award at the conference Difussion Fundamentals IX, Kraków (2022)
- Scholarship in the National Science Centre grant Non-Gaussian fluctuations and stochastic thermodynamics (2015–2017)
- PhD summa cum laude (2015)
- KNOW scholarship for 3 best faculty PhD students (2013, 2014)
- Vice chancellor scholarship for the best PhD students (2012–2015)
- SET programme fellowship (2012–2015)
Additional trainings
- Machine learning for physicists, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (2023)
- Recent progress in glassy systems: Marginally Stable Phases, Quantum Behaviour, Machine Learning and Mathematical Physics, Les Houches School of Physics (2020)
- 58th Cracow School on Theoretical Physics, “Neuroscience: Machine Learning meets Fundamental Theory”, Zakopane, Poland (2018)
- Society-Environment-Technology (SET), 3-year program on interdisciplinary research, research funding, dissemination of results, and academic teaching, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (2012–2015)
- Summer School on Statistical Physics of Small and Complex Systems, IFISC, Spain (2013, 2014)
- International Brain Research Organization Visiting Lecture Program, Kraków, Poland (2012)
- Erasmus Intensive Program on Engineering and Characterization of Nanostructures by Photon, Ion Beam and Nuclear Methods, Leuven, Belgium (2010)
Other activities
- Popular science article “How to sell triple DNA?”, M. Majka NIMB 13 (2012)
- Co-organizer of Marian Smoluchowski Symposium (2011–2019 and 2022)
- Co-organized conference Dynamics of biological systems: from viruses to populations (2020)
- Reviewer for Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E
- Teaching experience: mechanics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, stochastic process, programming in C/C++ and Mathematica, numerical methods, modeling of biological systems