Story and experience

I’m Michal Dyzma and I like to consider myself a data scientist. Science is my passion. I graduated University of Lodz holding two M.Sc in my hands: one in Genetics and one in Neurobiology. I was fascinated how brain and basic blocks of our structure can influence each other.

Experimental research

After graduation I began very humbly as a Lab technician in Occupational Medicine Institute, conducting behavioral and lab experiments for large EU project Devnertox.

In 2006 I was granted Marie Curie Fellowship and left Poland to do experimental work in very interesting topic - Effects of sleep restriction on human health. Project was realized in Andre Vesale Hospital near Brussels. In Vesale I was amazed by possibilities of the software classifying human brain waives (now I know it relied on FFT). It was my first, but not last, contact with Matlab.

Theoretical research

After spending some time working on experimental side of the field (Devnertox, Sleep) I decided to do theoretical stuff. In 2009 I enrolled to PhD program in Polish Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research. At Department of Mechanics and Physics of Fluids, Laboratory of Modeling in Biology and Medicine I devoted my time to research mathematical modeling of biological processes. As a result, in 2016, I defended PhD thesis, which expanded currently used models of the calcium dynamics in the eukaryotic cells. By adding micro-domains to the equation and tracing calcium concentration in different cell compartments I could recreate initial steps of apoptosis. A process leading to the controlled cells death. Numerical analysis of the model was done in Matlab. PhD Thesis (in Polish).

After my adventure with mathematical modeling I started to develop “real software”. I have done some protein-RNA docking during my post-doc training in one of the best labs in Europe IIMCB Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering in Warsaw. Over there I got familiar with python and theoretical research on nucleic acids and proteins.

Corporate experience

In 2015, GMV Aerospace hired me and I had the chance to work in very exciting and promising field - space projects. I maintained and developed software for ESA data processing centers.

I’m currently living in Warsaw, Poland and working in GMV Aerospace, developing software responsible for data processing from several satellites. At work I use C++11 in combination with Python. SWARM Mission was launched as a part of Living Planet Program. It is a European Space Agency initiative dedicated to observe Earth from space and provide research data about Earth’s atmosphere, magnetic field, photosynthesis and many more aspects of the planet’s status. Please visit Living Planet for details.

Here I am. Scientific background, author of many peer reviewed papers on biology, mathematical modeling and bioinformatics combined with corporate, large software house, experience in one.

From time to time I write stuff on Twitter and throw some code on GitHub (very rare incident).

Post scriptum

Please take into account, that this blog is an effect of occasionally experienced state of having “free time”. Being very happy father and husband and hard working employee I have very little time left for this activity. Sometimes there will be unfinished posts or long gaps between consecutive articles. That’s life happening.

Enjoy!