University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn is the Coordinator of the NMR-IMPROV.
The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was created from bold plans and dreams about a University that would house representatives of various science disciplines educating students ready to change the reality of their region and country. These desires motivated us to look for common values – what unites us, not what divides us.
Kortowo, where history meets modernity, is considered one of the most beautiful academic campuses in Poland and Europe. The university town with its lakes and ubiquitous greenery is a beautiful showcase of Warmia’s nature. In a symbolic sense, it also reminds us of the University’s connections with the region. Awareness of these relationships and social responsibility make UWM not only a cultural and opinion-forming place, a partner for local governments and the economic environment, but also an inspirer of the broadly understood development of Warmia and Mazury. The university also mediates in the transfer of new technologies and enables companies to use the latest research results, constituting a scientific showcase of Olsztyn and the region.
The university regularly increases the number of rights to award doctoral and habilitated doctor degrees, creating opportunities for career development for research workers. The need for continuous growth is also reflected in the subsequent scientific successes of the UWM staff, as well as in the constantly modernized and expanded university infrastructure.
Danuta Kruk – Professor of physics at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (PL). Her expertise covers theory of spin resonances and relaxation processes in connection to dynamics of viscous liquid, glass-forming systems and macromolecular systems (polymers, proteins) and transport phenomena in solid and liquid electrolytes. She is the author of two book on NMR relaxometry; she has also been appointed as an Editorial Advisor to the New Developments in NMR Editorial Board.
Professor Danuta Kruk is the Coordinator of the project called “NMR relaxation tools for improving and protecting quality of dairy products” NMR-IMPROV, ID 101131564, HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01
PhD Elżbieta Masiewicz – Assistant Professor/Lecturer (Physicist) at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Food Science, Department of Physics and Biophysics (Poland).
She is an experienced researcher and specialist in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry experiments, data acquisition and analysis procedures, and relaxation models for various spin systems, especially ionic liquids, dairy products, proteins, and tissue-mimicking systems.
Adam Kasparek, a graduate of the University of Warsaw. He has a diploma in both physics and mathematics and started working at the University of Warmia and Mazury in 2012. He completed his PhD thesis “Spectroscopic studies of the properties of sinapic methyl ester and its interaction with selected albumins” in 2020. His main scientific topics are studies of ligand-protein complexes in model systems using the theory of multiple bonds and exploring the applications of FFC NMR to study the movements of liquids around large molecules.
Mr. Faisal Sheraz Shah completed his Bachelor’s degree in 2017 and earned a Master’s in healthcare biotechnology from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2019. He began his professional career as a Tutor/Instructor at the Virtual University of Pakistan (2020–2021) before serving as an Industry Liaison Officer at Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), NUST (2021–2024).
During his tenure at NUST, he actively collaborated and worked on industry-academia projects with renowned companies, including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, 2insects International, PMA Healthcare Ltd, and Vyarna OU, Estonia.
Currently, Faisal Sheraz Shah is pursuing his PhD at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland, under the supervision of Prof. Danuta Kruk. His research specializes in Fast Field Cycling (FFC) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxometry and Time-Domain (TD) NMR, with a focus on exploring the dynamic properties of macromolecules using NMR relaxometry techniques. Faisal’s dedication to research and academic excellence has been recognized with the Best PhD Foreign Student scholarship, further highlighting his contributions to the field of NMR relaxometry and molecular sciences
In addition, he is dedicated to studying the dynamical properties of dairy products using highly advanced FFC NMR and TD NMR methods. His research aims to enhance the quality and authenticity of dairy products under the NMR_IMPROV concept, contributing to advancements in food safety and industry standards.