Employment:
- 1990 – 2003: Centre of Microbiology and Virology, Polish Academy of Sciences: 1990-1991: research assistant; 1992-1996: senior research assistant; 1996-2003: assistant professor (1999-2003 acting head of Laboratory)
- since 2004: Centre/Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences: 2004-2006: assistant professor; 2006-2021; associate professor; since 2021 – professor (since 2004 head of Laboratory)
Stays abroad:
- Robert Koch-Institut, Wernigerode, Germany: 1992
- N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia: 1997
- Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia: 2000
- Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, National Science Laboratory, Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain: 2005, 2007, 2011, 2012
Membership in professional bodies/editorial boards:
- Vice-president of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Society of Microbiologists (1996-2000)
- Member of the National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians
- Chairman of the Doctoral Commision, Institute of Medical Biology, PAS
- Member of editorial boards: WebMedCentral; Frontiers in Immunology, Cancers, Immunobiology
- Member of The Committee for Immunology and Aethiology of Human Infections of The Polish Academy of Sciences
- Member of the scientific committee – Łódź School of Immunology
Prizes and awards:
- Award of Rector of the University of Lodz , 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990
- Medal for the best graduate student, University of Lodz, 1990
- FEMS fellowship to attend the IIIth Conference of International Endotoxin Society, Helsinki, 1994
- Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding young scientists, Warszawa, 1996
- IUIS award for young scientists – to attend 11th International Congress of Immunology, Stockholm, 2001
- Award of Director of the Centre of Microbiology and Virology, PAS, 1998
- Awards of Director of the Institute of Medical Biology, PAS for scientific achievements
Participation in organizing/scientific conference committees and chairing sessions:
- Symposium on Bacterial Endotoxin. Some Aspects of Biological Activities, Łódź, 1996 – member of the organizing committee
- The 1st Workshop on Microbiology in Health and Environmental Protection, Łódź, 2008 – chairman
- II Polish Meeting of Young Biotechnologists, Katowice, 2013 – member of the scientific committee, chairman
- Baltinfect: New Trends in Immunology: From The Basic Science to the Clinical Research, Riga (Latvia), 2014 – chairman
- VI PhD Students National Conference of Life Sciences “BioOpen” Łódź, 2021 – special guest
Plenary lectures:
- II Polish Meeting of Young Biotechnologists, Katowice, 2013 – member of the scientific committee, chairman
- Baltinfect: New Trends in Immunology: From The Basic Science to the Clinical Research, Riga (Latvia), 2014 – chairman
- VI PhD Students National Conference of Life Sciences “BioOpen” Łódź, 2021 – special guest
- Advances in Biology and Chemistry of Bacterial Surface Polysaccharides, Kielce, 2022
Invited lectures:
- Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2000
- Polish Society of Expermental and Clinical Immunology, Katowice, 2003
- Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, National Science Laboratory, Edinburgh, UK, 2007
- University of Silesia, Katowice, 2009
- Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK, 2011
- University of Łódź, 2011