Awards

Awards

2006	-	EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in Europe in the field of Operations Research (diploma)
2006	-	Scientific award for the best doctoral dissertation granted by the Rector of Poznan University of Technology
2009	-	Scientific award for the best experimental work of the year in computational sciences (RNA FRABASE) granted by the IBCh PAS Research Council
2013	-	Scientific award for the best experimental work of the year in computational sciences (RNAComposer) granted by the IBCh PAS Research Council
2016	-	Scientific award for outstanding scientific achievements granted by the Rector of Poznan University of Technology
2017	-	Award for outstanding scientific achievements (Computational methods to recognize and model RNA 3D structures) granted by the Polish Academy of Sciences - Division IV (Technical Sciences) (diploma)
2019	-	Scientific award for the best experimental work of the year in computational sciences (algorithms for pseudoknots) granted by the IBCh PAS Research Council
2019	-	Rector's scientific award (2nd degree) for "New computational methods in RNA structural bioinformatics" granted by the Rector of Poznan University of Technology
2019	-	Rector's award for outstanding didactic achievements in the academic year 2018/2019 granted by the Rector of Poznan University of Technology
2020	-	Scientific award for the best experimental work of the year in computational sciences (RNAvista) granted by the IBCh PAS Research Council
2020	-	Nomination for the Polish Intelligent Development Award "Scientist of the Future 2021" under the patronage of the President of the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland, in the category "Science and technology for the innovative future" (diploma)

Distinctions

2009-2015	-	Member of the Managing Board of the EURO CBBM (EURO Working Group on Operations Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine
2011-present	-	Vice president of the PTBI (Polish Bioinformatics Society)
2013	-	RNA FRABASE announced one of the most outstanding achievements in the Dept. of Computing Science PUT
2016-present	-	Vice chair of the EURO CBBM (EURO Working Group on Operations Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine
April 2017	-	Highly Cited Paper: Miao et al., RNA 2016, was placed in the top 1% of the academic field of Biology & Biochemistry based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year (source: Web of Science)
August 2017	-	Highly Cited Paper: Popenda et al., NAR 2012, was placed in the top 1% of the academic field of Biology & Biochemistry based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year (source: Web of Science)
October 2017	-	Highly Cited Paper: Miao et al., RNA 2017, was placed in the top 1% of the academic field of Biology & Biochemistry based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year (source: Web of Science)

Didactic succeses (awards to students for the research carried under my supervision)

2009	-	Distinction for MSc thesis "RNA fragments search engine - project and implementation" written under my supervision by Marek Blazewicz, awarded in the contest for the best master thesis presented in the field of bioinformatics (contest organized by the Polish Bioinformatics Society)
2012	-	Distinction for MSc thesis "Molecular structure comparison in torsional angle space" written under my supervision by Tomasz Zok, awarded in the contest for the best master thesis presented in the field of bioinformatics (contest organized by the Polish Bioinformatics Society)
2016	-	Scientific scholarship for outstanding research achievements in the field of RNA structural bioinformatics granted to my PhD student Tomasz Zok by Chapter of the scholarship of the City of Poznan
2018	-	Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding scientific achievements granted to my MSc student Michal Zurkowski
2019	-	Distinction for PhD thesis "Algorithmic aspects of RNA structure similarity analysis" written under my supervision by Tomasz Zok, awarded by the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Computing, Poznan University of Technology
2019	-	Distinction for PhD thesis "Algorithmic aspects of RNA structure similarity analysis" written under my supervision by Tomasz Zok, awarded by the Scientific Council of the city of Poznan
2019	-	Distinction for BSc thesis "New method for pseudoknot identication" written under my supervision by Michal Zurkowski, awarded in the IEEE Thesis Contest