Professor of biological sciences, biochemist, head of the Protein Structure Laboratory at the International Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology in Warsaw. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of DNA repair and the structure and function of proteins that interact with nucleic acids. He has worked at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), served as chairman of the Science Policy Committee under the Minister of Science, and today belongs to Academia Europaea and EMBO, among others.
He is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Foundation for Polish Science Award (2022), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2013), and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute and EMBO Installation Grant recipient.