Janusz Bujnicki#
| Membership Number: | 4760 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | POLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://genesilico.pl/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002-present Professor and head of the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
- 2015-2020 European Commission's Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (and continues to work with GCSA and an alumnus/expert)
- 2020-present Association of ERC Grantees, AERG (founding member, board member)
- 2024-present Advisory panel to the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the evaluation of the quality of scientific activity
- 2023-present Scientific Advisory Board, Life Science Center, Vilnius University
- 2019-present Łukasiewicz Research Network – PORT Polish Center for Technology Development (scientific advisor)
- 2019-present University of Warsaw Council (chairman 2019-2020)
- 2017-present International Scientific Council of the International Centre for Research on Innovative Bio-based Materials (ICRI-BioM), Łódź, Poland
- 2017-present European Science Advisors Forum (representative of Poland, member of the ESAF sounding board committee since 2019)
- 2007-present Polish Society for Bioinformatics, PTBI (founding member, vice-president 2007-2010, president 2011-2013, honorary member since 2022)
- 2019-2023 Committee for Science Evaluation, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- 2006-2020 Visiting professor, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- 2020 Advisory Group on Preventing, Counteracting and Combating COVID-19, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- 2014-2018 Science Policy Committee, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (two terms as a chairman)
- 2016-1018 Council of the National Science Congress, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- 2013-2015 Science Europe, Life Environmental and Geo-Sciences (LEGS) Scientific Committee
- 2010-2011 Deputy director (1 year rolling position), International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
- 2008, Visiting professor (sabbatical), University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2004-2006 Assistant professor, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
- 2001 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, Bethesda, USA
- 2000-2001 Research Scientist, Bioinformatics Unit, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
- 1998-2000 Senior Research Assistant, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Structural biology
- Science-for-policy and policy-for-science advice
- Bioinformatics & computational biology
- Molecular modeling
- RNA modification & epitranscriptomics
- Molecular evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2019 André Mischke Young Academy of Europe Prize for Science and Policy
- 2018 Elected as EMBO member
- 2016 Elected as a member to Polish Academy of Sciences – (youngest /41/ member of the Academy in 2016)
- 2016 Crystal Brussels Sprout – special award of the Polish National Contact Point of the EU
- 2014 Award of the Polish National Research Center (NCN) – 1 awardee per year in Life Sciences (for researchers under 40)
- 2014 Award of the Prime Minister for Outstanding Research Achievements – 6 awardees in all disciplines of science in 2014
- 2014 Selected as one of “25 leaders for the next 25 years” by “Teraz Polska” magazine (Polish Promotional Emblem Foundation)
- 2014 Award of the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta from the President of the Republic of Poland
- 2013 Won the first national plebiscite “Poles with Verve” in in the Science category
- 2012 Award of the Ministry of Science for Outstanding Research Achievements
- 2010 ERC Starting Grant (2011-2015) – first ERC Starting Grant in biological sciences awarded for a proposal from Poland
- 2009 Award of the Ministry of Science for Research Achievements (Individual work)
- 2009 Fellowship for Outstanding Young Scientists (Ministry of Science, Republic of Poland)
- 2006 Young Researcher Award in Structural and Evolutionary Biology of the Visegrad Group Academies of Sciences
- 2006 Award of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland for the Habilitation thesis
- 2003 EMBO & HHMI Young Investigator Programme Award
