Dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences
Beata Machnicka obtained a Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Opole in 1996. In 1997, she started working as an assistant at the Institute of Biotechnology and Environmental Protection of the then Pedagogical High School in Zielona Góra, where she initiated her teaching and research endeavors.
In 2004 she obtained her Ph.D. in biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Wrocław, and in the years 2006 – 2008, she undertook postdoctoral research at INSERM U665 in Paris, where her studies focused on the role of αII-spectrin in the organization of membrane domains. She completed subsequent short research stays at INSERM in Paris as part of the Polonium Program, researching the role of spectrin in the functioning of T cells and their importance in immunological synapses and diapedesis. In 2021, she obtained a postdoctoral degree in exact and natural sciences in the discipline of biological sciences at the Pedagogical University of Krakow, based on a thesis on the role of spectrin in non-erythroid cells.
She has been the head of the Department of Biotechnology at the Institute of Biological Sciences of the University of Zielona Góra since 2020.
Her scientific interests include research on the function of proteins in cells, the role of spectrin in the organization of membrane domains, the molecular basis of hereditary hemolytic anemias, and the use of nanocarriers in the delivery of anticancer drugs.
Dr. hab. Beata Machnicka cooperates with research teams from the University of Wrocław and INSERM in Paris. She was the manager, coordinator, or executor of research projects financed by, among others, the European Union, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center, and the Voivodeship Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Zielona Góra. She also has extensive experience teaching and educating scientific staff - she was the supervisor of several dozen master's and bachelor's theses and a reviewer of doctoral theses.
Beata Machnicka is a regular member of the Polish Biochemical Society. Since 2024, she has also been a member of the Minister of Science and Higher Education advisory team for research infrastructure.
