Janusz Bujnicki

Janusz Marek Bujnicki (; born 1975 ) is a Polish biologist specializing in experimental and computational structural biology, professor of biological sciences, head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw.

Biography In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Warsaw, where in 2001 he obtained a doctorate in biological sciences. In the years 1998–2000 he completed an internship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit in the US, and in 2001 at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) of the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) at Bethesda. In 2008 he was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo.

He started work at the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw in 1999, in 2002 he took over the management of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering. Between 2004 and 2020 he has also been working at the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Faculty of Biology at Adam Mickiewicz University, since 2006 the group leader.

In 2005 he obtained habilitation at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the field of biology.

He was involved in the social movement "Citizens of Science", among others as the author of the "More Good Science" initiative, and as an organizer of conferences and workshops. He is the author of over 300 original works in scientific journals, over 20 review articles and chapters in books. former member of the Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Committee of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS founding member and vice president (2008–2010) and president (2011–2013) of the Polish Bioinformatics Society former member of the Life, Environmental and Geo Sciences (LEGS) scientific committee at Science Europe former member of the scientific committee of the initiative Innovative Medicines Initiative

Decorations and distinctions Laureate of the Young Scientist Program of the European Organization of Molecular Biology (EMBO) and the American Medical Institute Howard Hughes (HHM) in 2002. In 2013, he won the plebiscite "Poles with Verve" in the Science category . Winner of the National Center for Science Award in 2014. In 2019 was awarded the André Mischke Prize for Science and Policy by the Young Academy of Europe.