Dr. hab. Irenesz Grulkowski
Ireneusz Grulkowski (b. 1979) received his MSc. in Biomedical Physics from the University of Gdansk (Poland) in 2003. Two years later, he graduated also from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdansk and the Medical University of Gdansk (Biotechnology). He received PhD in Experimental Physics from the University of Gdansk based on the thesis entitled ‘Diffraction of light by cylindrical ultrasound’. Later on, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Gdansk and at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU, Torun, Poland), where he joined the Medical Physics Group (leader: Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski). At that time, his research was devoted to novel applications of the optical coherence tomography (OCT). In 2010-2012, Dr. Grulkowski was a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Visiting Scientist) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA) under the supervision of Prof. James G. Fujimoto. He developed new long-range eye imaging applications with Swept Source OCT with the vertical cavity surface emitting laser. Dr. Grulkowski obtained habilitation in December 2016, and launched Bio-Optics & Optical Engineering Lab (BOEL) at NCU in 2017. Dr. Grulkowski has been appointed Associate Professor at NCU in October 2018. His publication record includes 71 publications and 4 book chapters that were cited over 1000 times in total. He presented his work at many domestic and international conferences and workshops (>100 presentations, incl. 13 invited talks). His research has been funded by: Foundation for Polish Science, Polish National Science Center, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, European Fund for Regional Development etc.
