Irena Roterman-Konieczna – education:  Jagiellonian University,  Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry,  master degree in chemistry – 1973,  specialization:  theoretical chemistry.

1974 – till now – employment – Nicolaus Copernicus Medical Academy – currently Jagiellonian University – Medical College

PhD – 1985 – Nicolaus Copernicus Medical Academy – currently Jagiellonian University – Medical College – structure of immunoglobulin

1987-1989 – Cornell University Ithaca NY USA – prof. Harold A. Scheraga’s group – two-years post-doc position – protein structure

Habilitation – 1996 – Faculty of Biotechnology – Jagiellonian University – Structure-function relation in proteins  

Professor in medical sciences – 2005 – Collegium Medicum – Jagiellonian University

2002-2020 – chief of Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine – Jagiellonian University – Medical College

Polish Chief of European grant: EuChinaGrid – awarded by Health Minister – ”Brussels sprout” (Brussels – the capital of Europe – in polish language verbal coincidence with the name of vegetable)

Scientific interest:  – protein structure, function of proteins, amyloidosis

Research in close collaboration with experimentalists – Prof. Leszek Konieczny – Chair of Medical Biochemistry – Jagiellonian University – Medical College.

Collaboration of specialists in computer-science with experimentalists effected the scientific achievement as follows:

• “Protein folding In Silico” – Woodhead Publishing (currently Elsevier) – 2012
• “Identification of ligand binding site and Protein-Protein interaction area” – Springer 2013.
• “Systems Biology – Functional Strategies of Living Organism” – Springer 2014
• „Biologia Systemów – Strategia działania organizmu żywego” – PWN – I edition – 2010,  II editio 2017
• “Self-assembled molecules – New kind of protein ligands – Supramolecular Ligands” – Springer 2018
• “From globular proteins to amyloids” – Elsevier – 2020
• “On the need to introduce environmental characteristics in ab initio protein structure prediction using a coarse-grained UNRES force field” – Elsevier – 2022

Teaching activity:

Courses organization addressed to medical students presented in the form of handbook: “Simulation In Medicine – Preclinical and clinical applications” – Walter de Gruyter – Berlin – 2015

• “Simulation In Medicine – Computer aided diagnostics and therapy” – Walter de Gruyter – Berlin 2020

Experience in education of medical students in the discipline of statistics shared in two manuals:

• „Statystyka na receptę” – Wydawnictwo UJ – 2010
• “Statistics by prescription” – Jagiellonian University Press – 2009

2005 – 2021 Chief Editor of the journal (quarterly) “Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems” – Publisher Walter de Gruyter – Berlin

The name of prof. Irena Roterman can be found on the list of 2% TOP scientists in the world of highest impact on the science in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The annual ranking is prepared by Stanford University in cooperation with the publisher Elsevier and SciTech Strategies.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Roterman-Konieczna