
Janusz Bujnicki (born 1975) is Professor of Biology, and head of a research group at IIMCB in Warsaw and at Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw in 1998, defended his
PhD in 2001, was awarded with habilitation in 2005, and with the professor title in 2009.
His research combines bioinformatics, structural and synthetic biology, and his achievements include the development of methods
for computational modeling of protein and RNA 3D structures, discovery and characterization of enzymes involved in RNA
metabolism, and engineering of proteins with new functions.
Bujnicki is an author of > 280 publications, which have been cited >5300 times (self-citations excluded), Hirsch index 37
(according to Scopus).
He received numerous awards, prizes, fellowships, and grants including EMBO/HHMI Young Investigator Programme award,
ERC Starting Grant, award of the Ministry of Science and award of the Prime Minister, and was decorated with the Knight's Cross
of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the President of the Republic of Poland. In 2013 he won the national plebiscite “Poles with
Verve” in the Science category.
He has been involved in various scientific organizations and bodies, including the Polish Young Academy, Citizens of Science,
Science Europe, and Scientific Policy Committee. He is also an executive editor of the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
Talk at BITS2016: Computational modeling and design of RNA 3D structure and protein-RNA complexes