Katarzyna Marzec PhD, DSc

Katarzyna M. Marzec is an acting director at Łukasiewicz Research Network-Krakow Institute of Technology and a professor at AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. She previously served as the Head of the Laboratory of Raman Spectroscopy and Head of the RBC Spectroscopy Project Team at the Jagiellonian Centre for Experimental Therapeutics, Jagiellonian University, Poland as well as a Deputy Director of Research at Łukasiewicz Research Network-Krakow Institute of Technology, Poland. She received her MSc, PhD, and DSc degrees at the Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University. She carried out part of her graduate research at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and some of her postdoctoral work as a visiting scholar at Monash University, Australia. She was the recipient of many awards including the Go8 European Fellowship, Kosciuszko Fellowship (for research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA), and Fellowship of the Polish Ministry for Outstanding Young Scientists. Her vision is the transfer of vibrational spectroscopy techniques from the laboratories to the clinics and translating spectroscopy to find spectral biomarkers of lifestyle diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction.