PAN Olsztyn

Katarzyna Emila Kurzątkowska was born in November 19, 1982. In 2001 she went to Toruń, to study Chemistry at the Nicholaus Copernicus University. On June 19the 2004 she obtained Master of Science degree on the Organic Chemistry. The title her defended M.Sc. thesis is: “Synthesis and enantioselective reduction of benzofuryl α-amino ketone”.

Since October 2004 she has started a doctor course at the Department of Biosensors in Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn. In October 14the 2009 she was awarded doctoral degree for her thesis entitled “Intermolecular recognition processes and their using in electrochemical sensors” from the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

Her research interest concerns the development of  sensors based on: (i) ion channel mimetic mode and (ii) based on redox active monolayers.  Currently she is working on the characterization of electrochemical properties of  porphyrines and their complexes with transition metal ions  deposited on the surface of gold electrodes.

From  October 18, 2009  to October 17,  2010, she was worked as a Marie Curie fellow at the Department of Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Oncology in the Institute of Biophysics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in laboratory of Prof. Emil Paleček. She was working on:  (i) behaviour of a model amyloid peptide at the electrified interface, (ii)discrimiation of native and denatured forms of proteins at edge plane carbon electrodes, (iii)determination of partially glycolysated peptide from the treofil factor family – hTFF2 using mercury electrode.

For her scientific achievements she obtained the Team Science 2nd Degree Award founded by the Director of Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences for  in 2008 and the Team Science Award founded by the Minister of Health for the publication „Gold Electrode Incorporating Corrole as an Ion-Channel Mimetic Sensor for Determination of Dopamine”.