Marta B. Wiśniewska, PHD Prof. UW

 ACADEMIC DEGREES AND EDUCATION

27/09/2013 - Habilitation degree in Biological Science, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw

6/10/2000 - PhD degree in Biological Science, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw

29/07/1994 - Master thesis in Genetics, University of Warsaw

RESEACRCH EXPERIANCE

since 2014 – Group Leader, Associate Professor (profesor UW), Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw

2013-2014 – Group Leader, Assistant Professor (adiunkt), Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw

2004-2013 – Senior Researcher, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw

2001-2004 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Pasteur Institute in Paris

1996 – Trainee, Pasteur Institute in Paris

1994-2000 - Research Assistant, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw

ELECTED MEMBER IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES

2024 - 2027 - member of the Neurobiology Committee of the Polish Academy of Science

2021-2024 - member of the Scientific Council for Biological Sciences at the University of Warsaw

2022 - 2023 - member of the Scientific Committee and Organising Committee of  the 16th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society in Toruń

2021 - 2023 - member of the executive committee of the Polish Neuroscience Society

2020- 2023 - member of the Neurobiology Committee of the Polish Academy of Science (Secretary of the NC Presidium)

2020 - 2021 - member of the Scientific Committee and Organising Committee of  the 15th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society and Regional FENS Meeting 

2019 - 2021 - member of the executive committee of the Polish Neuroscience Society

2016 - 2019 - member of the Neurobiology Committee of the Polish Academy of Science

2020 - member of the Recruitment Committee at the Doctorate School of Exact and Natural Science

2020 - member of the Electoral College of the University of Warsaw (elects the Rector, and members of the Senate) 

2019 - 2021 - Associate Editor at the Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

2019, 2018, 2016 - member of the Expert Panel for the  National Science Centre (Polish grant agency)

2016 - 2017 - member of the Organising Committee of the 13th International Congress of the Polish Neuroscience Society

2017 - 2019 - member of the Selection Board at the Biology Department, University of Warsaw

2015 -  present - elected an extraordinary member of Warsaw Scientific Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie)

2014 - 2022 -  member of the Scientific Council of the Postgraduate School of Molecular Medicine (SMM)

2013 - 2014 - member of the Scientific Committee and Organising Committee of  the 1st Congress of the Polish Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Biophysics and Bioinformatics “BIO 2014”

AD HOC JOURNAL REVIEWER

Neuroscience; Acta Biochimica Polonica; Journal of Neurochemistry; International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology; Scientific Reports; Translational Psychiatry; Current Drug Metabolism; Progress in Neurobiology; PLOS Biology, Molecular Neurobiology, Journal of Neuroscience, iScience, Nature Communication

THESIS PROMOTER/SUPERVISOR

Engineer thesis - 1

Master theses - 3

PhD theses - 5

THESIS REVIEWER

PhD theses - 16

Habilitation  - 3

SCIENCE OUTREACH

Scientific consultation of the Polish translation of “Qu’est-ce que l’homme? Sur les fondamentaux de la biologie et de la philosophie” by Luc Ferry and Jean-Didier Vincent, Odile Jacob 2001 (Polish edition – “Co to jest człowiek?” Warszawa, PIW, 2003) 

Polish translation of “Frankenstein’s Footsteps: science, genetics and popular culture” by Jon Turney, Yale University Press 1998 (Polish edition – “Ślady Frankensteina: nauka, genetyka i kultura masowa” Warszawa, PIW 2001);