Prof. Barbara Klajnert-Maculewicz graduated in Environmental Engineering from the Lodz University of Technology in 1996. She obtained her PhD degree in Biophysics in 2002 at the University of Lodz based on the dissertation entitled "Oddziaływanie dendrymerów poliamidoaminowych z albuminą surowicy wołowej" [Interaction of polyamidoamine dendrimers with bovine serum albumin] (supervisor – Prof. Maria Bryszewska). She did an internship the McMaster University, Ontario, Canada (2004-2005). She successfully completed her habilitation at the University of Lodz, presenting the thesis "Oddziaływanie dendrymerów z białkami i peptydami – wpływ dendrymerów na proces agregacji peptydów prionowych i alzheimerowych" [Interaction of dendrimers with proteins and peptides – the influence of dendrimers on the aggregation process of prion and Alzheimer's peptides] in 2009. She obtained the title of Professor of Biological Sciences in 2013. Her scientific interests include nanomedicine, particularly the biological properties and biomedical applications of dendrimers and other nanosystems.
Prof. Barbara Klajnert-Maculewicz was an assistant at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences at her alma mater over the years 1996-1999. She has been employed at the Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection of the University of Lodz (Department of General Biophysics) since 2002. She was an external scientific member at the Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung in Dresden (2014/2015). She has coordinated several research projects and is a co-author of two monographs.
She was a member of the Molecular Cell Biology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2015–2019). In the years 2016–2020, she sat on the Scientific Policy Committee of the Minister of Science and Higher Education as Vice-President (2016–2017) and President (2017–2018), and in the years 2020–2022 on the Council of the National Science Centre. She received the Gold Cross of Merit for her achievements in scientific, research and teaching work in 2011.
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