2010-present

A member of the Araucaria Project

• 2024-currently
  Data manager contracted from the grant “Development and maintenance of an international astrophysical observatory”, implemented within the framework of the programme "Support for Participation of Polish Scientific Teams in International Research Infrastructure Projects" subsidised by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, agreement number 2024/WK/02

• 2021-2024
  Postdoctoral researcher in the project "Sub-percent calibration of the extragalactic distance scale in the era of big surveys (UniverScale)", funded from the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy grant No. 695099

• 2018-2023
  Postdoctoral researcher in the project "Precise and accurate measurement of the Hubble Constant in the era of Gaia", funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the grant MAESTRO

• 2016-2021
  Researcher in the project "A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids", funded from the European Research Council (ERC) grant No. 951549

• 2016-2020
  Researcher in the project "Eclipsing systems and Cepheids as a unique laboratory for the calibration of the cosmic distance scale", funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, under the grant Ideas Plus II

• 2013-2017
  Principal Investigator of the project "Observations, characteristics and simulations using evolutionary codes of a new class of pulsating stars in binary systems", funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the grant PRELUDIUM 4

• 2013-2018
  PhD student in the project "Cepheids in binary systems as a unique laboratory for calibration of the cosmic distance scale and studying theories of stellar evolution and pulsation", funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, under the grant MAESTRO

• 2011-2012
  Master student in the project "Precise calibration of the cosmic distance scale", funded by the Foundation for Polish Science, under the grant TEAM V

• 2024-present
  Data Manager for the Observatory Cerro Murphy, Chile. Main tasks: managing observing plans and quality of collected data.

• 2022-present
  Responsible for the near-infrared data obtained from the UKIRT telescope, equipped with WFCAM. Main objective: distance determination to M31, M33, NGC 6822, and Draco dSph, using distance indicators such as Cepheids and RR Lyrae variables.

• 2013-2017
  Principal Investigator of the project "Observations, characteristics and simulations using evolutionary codes of a new class of pulsating stars in binary systems", funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the grant PRELUDIUM 4. I used the binary population synthesis method to investigate a new class of binary systems with RR Lyr-like pulsating components. 

• 2024-current
  Data Manager at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  Contracted from the grant “Development and maintenance of an international astrophysical observatory”, implemented within the framework of the programme "Support for Participation of Polish Scientific Teams in International Research Infrastructure Projects" subsidised by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, agreement number 2024/WK/02

• 2019–2024
  Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidad de Concepción Concepción, Chile
  Contracted from the European Research Council Synergy Grant for the project “A sub-percent calibration of the extragalactic distance scale in the era of big surveys (UniverScale)” No. 695099 (2021-2024)
  Contracted from the European Research Council Advanced Grant for the project “A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids” No. 951549 (2019-2021)

• 2016–2019
  Scientific Researcher in Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw, Poland
  Contracted from the grant MAESTRO funded by the National Science Centre, Poland, for the project “Precise and accurate measurement of the Hubble Constant in the era of Gaia”

• 2012–2019
  Collaborative scientific visits (around eight 2- to 6-week long visits) at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile

• 2012–2019
  PhD in Astronomy in Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Poland
  Thesis topic: "The impact of binary evolution on the properties of pulsating stars, on an example of Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables", supervisor: Grzegorz Pietrzyński (my thesis, ~11MB, lang. Polish)

• 2010–1012
  Master of Science in Astronomy at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

• 2010
  Summer research internship in astronomy at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw, supervisor: Wojciech Dziembowski

• 2006–2010
  Bachelor of Science in Astronomy at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland

Observational experience (total of ~180 observing nights)

• spectroscopic observations with MIKE@Clay, M2FS@Clay (Las Campanas, Chile), CORALIE@Euler, HARPS@3.6-m (La Silla, Chile)

• photometric observations in the near-infrared with FourStar@Baade (Las Campanas, Chile), SOFI@NTT (La Silla, Chile), IRSF Telescope (SAAO, RSA)

• photometric observations in visual domain with SMARTS 0.9-m Telescope and SARA 0.6-m Telescope (Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile)

• operating 4 telescopes (visual and near-infrared) at Observatory Cerro Murphy, Chile

Observing time awarded

• PI of ITAC Gemini programme GS-2023B-Q-312 and GS-2023B-Q-114, titled "The surface brightness-color relation of early type stars: Zorro observations of LMC calibrating binaries", time awarded: 13.4 hours on Zorro/Gemini South (Cerro Pachón, Chile), 2023

• PI of CNTAC programme 2020A, 2020B, and 2021A, titled "Classical Cepheids in the SDSS photometric system", time awarded: 13 nights on SMARTS 0.9m, 26 nights on SARA, 140 hours on LCOGT 0.4m, 2020-2021

• PI of ESO programme 106.21H2, titled "Revealing the true nature of an LMC eclipsing binary with a mysterious pulsating star classified as an RR Lyrae variable", 10h awarded at UVES/VLT (Paranal, Chile), 2020

• 2025, Apr 25 (invited talk)
  Cardelli Colloquium at Villanova University, USA

• 2024, Nov 24-30 (invited talk)
  RR Lyrae and Cepheid Conference, Marrakesh, Morocco

• 2024, Sep 13-15 (invited talk)
  Pro-Am Meeting on Variable Stars, Litomyšl, Czech Republic

• 2024, Sep 9-13 (invited talk)
  Binary and Multiple Stars in the Era of Big Sky Surveys, Litomyšl, Czech Republic

• 2024, Sep 2-6 (contributed talk)
  International Araucaria Meeting, Paris, France

• 2023, Jul 3-14
  MIAPbP Program "Extragalactic Distance Scale", Garching, Germany

• 2022, Sep 26-30 (contributed talk)
  RR Lyrae and Cepheid Stars Conference, La Palma 

• 2022, Jun 2 (invited talk, online)
  Stellar Group Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 

• 2022, May 10  (invited talk, link)
  Hypatia Colloquium virtual talk, ESO Santiago

• 2022, May 4 (invited talk)
  Seminar at Universidad de Concepción, Chile

• 2022, Apr 25-29 (invited talk)
  Joint Observatories Kavli Science Forum in Chile, ESO Santiago, Chile

• 2021, Sep 13-17 (invited talk)
  Biennial Araucaria Conference, Sopot, Poland

• 2019, Nov 11-22
  VIII La Plata International School: Pulsations Along Stellar Evolution, La Plata, Argentina

• 2019, Sep 9-12 (contributed talk)
  39th Polish Astronomical Society Assembly, Olsztyn, Poland

• 2019, Aug 12-16
  MESA Summer School, UC Santa Barbara, USA

• 2019, Mar 6-8 (invited talk)
  Biennial Araucaria Conference, Concepción, Chile

• 2017, Sep 21-23 (invited talk)
  Biennial Araucaria Conference, Kraków, Poland

• 2017, Sep 17-21 (contributed poster)
  The RR Lyrae 2017 Conference. Revival of the Classical Pulsators: From Galactic Structure to Stellar Interior Diagnostics, Niepołomice, Poland

• 2017, Jul 10-13 (contributed talk)
  Conference of the physics of evolved stars II: the role of binarity, Nice, France

• 2017, Jul 3-7 (contributed talk)
  ESO Workshop: The IMPACT of BINARIES on STELLAR EVOLUTION, Garching, Germany

• 2016, Nov 28-Dec 2 (contributed poster)
  22nd Los Alamos Stellar Pulsation Conference Series Meeting: wide-field variability surveys: a 21st-century perspective, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

• 2015, Sep 7-10 (contributed poster)
  37th Polish Astronomical Society Assembly, Poznań, Poland

• 2015, Apr 19-25 (contributed talk)
  22th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kiev, Ukraine 

• 2015, Sep  10-13 (contributed talk)
  Ogólnopolskie Seminarium Studentów Astronomii (OSSA), Poznań, Poland

• 2013, Sep 26 (contributed talk)
  Ogólnopolskie Seminarium Studentów Astronomii (OSSA), Wrocław, Poland

• 2012, Sep 20 (contributed talk)
  Ogólnopolskie Seminarium Studentów Astronomii (OSSA), Zielona Góra, Poland

• 2012, Apr 22-29 (contributed talk)
  19th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kiev, Ukraine

• 2011, Sep 22-25 (contributed talk)
  Ogólnopolskie Seminarium Studentów Astronomii (OSSA), Warsaw, Poland

• Editor and coauthor of a book “The Araucaria Project: Improving the cosmic distance scale” published in 2021 on behalf of the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, to celebrate 20 years of the Araucaria Project

• Training “Need-based coaching” with Pernille Plantener (fully online training, total of 63h, 2022-2023)

• Postgraduate study “Nonviolent communication according to Marshall Rosenberg”  (fully online study, total of 136h, diploma certified by Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland, 2021–2022)

• Chairing Astronomical Seminars at the Universidad de Concepción (“Astro-UdeC Seminars”), 2021

• Writing popular science articles to a Polish astronomical journal Urania and website astrovision.pl (2012–current)

• Webmaster of araucaria.camk.edu.pl (2016–current)

• Webmaster of ocm.camk.edu.pl (2023–current)

• Reviewer for Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2020), The Astrophysical Journal (2023), Astronomy and Astrophysics (2023-2024)

• Co-organization of the Biennial Araucaria Workshop, Sopot, Poland, Poland (2021)

• Co-organization of the ESO Workshop: A revolution in stellar physics with Gaia and large surveys (2018)

• Invited popular science talk about cosmic distance measurements (Wszechnica Naukowo-Kulturalna PAU, Gliwice, Poland, 2018)

• Teaching Statistics for Astronomers for 3rd year students at Warsaw University, 45h/yr (2013–2016)