Katarzyna 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 was: “Synthesis and enantioselective reduction of benzofuryl α-amino ketone”.
Since October 2004 she has started a doctor course at the Department of Biosensors in Food in Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn. On October 14the 2009 she was awarded doctoral degree for her thesis entitled “Intermolecular recognition processes and their using in electrochemical sensors” from the Nicholaus Copernicus University.
Her research interest concerns the mechanism of the electrochemical signals generated at the organic/aqueous interface of based on the formation of the supramolecular host-guest complexes. She applied this basic study for the developing of the chemical sensors such as: the liquid membrane electrodes incorporated with macrocyclic ligands for selective determination of neutral molecules, chemical sensors based on gold electrodes modified by thiol layers through Au-S covalent bond, ion-channel sensors.
From October 2009, She is working 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. dr hab. Emil Paleček.
E-mail address: kurzatkowska@pan.olsztyn.pl
She is co-author of 4 research papers and 3 communications.