Tadeusz Sarna
Born 1943. MS in Physics obtained from Moscow State University, Russia, in 1968. PhD in natural sciences/biophysics in 1974 from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. DSc in biophysics in 1980 from Jagiellonian University. Post-doctoral fellowship 1974-1976 Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, USA. Assistant Professor of Biophysics 1974-1980 Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. 1981-1990 Associate Professor of Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University. 1990-2013 Professor and Chair Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. 1986-2022 Head Laboratory of Photobiophysics, Jagiellonian University. 1993-1999 Director of the Insitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University. For different periods Visiting Professors in the Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, College of Medicine University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dartmouth Medical School, Hannover, NH, USA, Department of Chemistry Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, USA, Department of Chemistry Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, Department of Physics, Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia, I.C.O.A. University of Orleans, Orleans, France, Founding member of the European Society for Photobiology, European Society for Pigment Cell Research, International EPR/ESR Society, and member of several other international scientific societies. Between 1997 and 1999 President of the European Society for Photobiology. In 2021 obtained a gold medal from the European Society for Photobiology. Served as a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, and Photochemistry and Photobiology and associate editor of Pigment Cell Research and Apoptosis. Research interest focused for many years on the physicochemical properties of melanin pigments that determine their biological functions, and molecular and cellular mechanisms of retinal phototoxicity, particularly mediated by the age pigments and the role of free radicals and singlet oxygen in photodynamic therapy of cancer and antibacterial infections. Author and co-author of over 220 scientific papers that were cited over 12 thousand times.