Dr Katarzyna Sęktas
| Dr Katarzyna Sęktas
Katarzyna in 2006 started her PhD studies at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Mouriño. After a one-year stay in Spain, she started her PhD studies at the University of Warsaw in the Laboratory of Stereocontrolled Organic Synthesis (PSSO), under the supervision of Prof. Rafał Sicinski. Continuing her collaboration with Prof. Mouriño, after passing the required examinations at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2008, she was awarded the Diploma of Doctoral Studies (Diploma de Estudios Avanzados: DEA, equivalent to Master of Research). Later, in 2012, Katarzyna defended his PhD thesis entitled: “Synthesis of 6-substituted vitamin D3 analogues” under the supervision of Prof. Rafał Sicinski and Prof. Antonio Mouriño. Since 2007, she has completed a total of nine research internships (over 30 months in total) at the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), in the laboratory of Prof. Hector F. DeLuca, the Department of Chemistry of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), in the laboratory of Prof. Antonio Mouriño, and at the Institute of Experimental Botany of AS CR and Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic), in the laboratory of Prof. Miroslav Strnad. After completing her PhD, she continued her work in the PSSO where she focused, among other projects, on the synthesis of biologically active compounds. In 2024 she moved to the Laboratory of Technology of Organic Functional Materials to work with Dr Eng. Wojciech Danowski.
