Education and scientific degree:
1983 MSc Poznan University of Life Sciences
1989 PhD degree, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
1996 habilitation, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
2001 professorship in neurophysiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw
Employment History:
1982 - Department of Neurobiology, Poznan University of Physical Education, Department of Neurobiology
since 2000 - Head of the Department of Neurobiology
Scientific stays:
Laboratory of Movement Control, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St Petersburg (Russia)
Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, College de France, Paris (France)
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, Spinal Cord Research Center, University of Manitoba, Canada
Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Scientific Societies:
International Brain Research Organization
Federation of European Neuroscience Societies
Polish Neuroscience Society (president, 2017-2019)
Polish Physiological Society
Research Interests:
Neurophysiology, Motor Control, Motor units, Muscle receptors
Present research activity:
Plasticity of motor unit contractile properties and electrophysiological properties of motoneurons, neuronal mechanisms of force regulation in skeletal muscles, mechanomyographic signals generated by contracting motor units, muscle receptors
