Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Lublin, conducting research on molecular pharmacology and medicinal chemistry. Co-author of over 100 publications, two international patents and a number of plenary lectures. Editor and co-author of the book “Drug Stereochemistry: Analytical Methods and Pharmacology” (2013). Head of research grants awarded by the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) and Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW), winning applicant of the FOCUS and TEAM programmes operated by Foundation for Polish Science, and a member of the consortium operating a project commissioned by the National Institutes of Health (USA).
Completed two post-doctoral fellowships, one at the National Institute on Aging, NIH in Baltimore (USA) (20012004), and the other at the Laboratory of Biomodeling of International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (2005-2007). Visiting professor at the Università di Bologna in Italy (2023). Recipient of team and individual scientific awards of the Polish Minister of Health and the 2012 laureate of the UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry by the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry.
Between 2012 and 2020, member of the NCN Council and, inter alia, former Head of the Council’s Life Sciences Committee. Since October 2023, Director of the National Science Centre.