Timeline:
2024
I joined the Tree of Life programme and started working as a postdoc for the BIOSCAN project at the Wellcome Sanger Institut in Cambridge
2024
I finished my PhD and started working as a postdoc at QMUL
2022
I participated in a science outreach project funded by Research England to make our research more accessible to policymakers and the public
2021
I worked as a tutor for the Brilliant Club
2020
I started working on my PhD project about the effects of insecticides on gene regulation in insect pollinators
2019
I started my PhD with London NERC DTP (QMUL, UCL)
2017
2016
2015
2014
I started working at the Polish Academy of Sciences as a field and laboratory assistant
2013
I bacame chair of the Entomology Section of the Society of Young Biologists in Kraków (2013-2016)
2012
I started my biology studies at the Jagiellonian University
Publication list
Skills:
- R, bash, Python
- bioinformatics
- mixed effect models and multivariate statistics
- data visualisation (R, digital design)
- git & GitHub, markdown
- nucleic acid extraction
- library preparation
- light and electron microscopy
- insect tissue dissection
- experiments on living insects
- experimental design
- insect capturing (various methods)
- insect pinning and identification
- experiece in tropical and temperate climates
- demonstrating: programing in R, statistics, and bioinformatics (MSc level)
- the Brilliant Club tutor
- support supervision: bioinformatic MSc student, NERC RPEP BSc student intern
Grants, honours & awards:
- 2022: IUSSI best student talk award
- 2022: IUSSI best postgraduate poster award
- 2020: NERC-funded PhD research scholarship
- 2017: Tropical Biology Association scholarship to attend a course in Tanzania
- 2017: ERASMUS research scholarship
- 2016: Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Polish Students
- 2013-2017: €4250 for the Society of Young Biologists (Entomology Section) (Jagiellonian University Small Grants; Jan Kochanowski Foundation)
- 2013-2017: The Jagiellonian University Scholarship for the best 10% of students