Scientific and personal page of Lukasz Komsta

Education

  • June 2001 - MSc in Pharmacy after 5-year study in Medical University of Lublin
  • 2001 - 2002 - PhD Student in medicinal chemistry in the same University
  • 2002 - 2007 - The assistant position in Chair and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin
  • 2007 till now - The adiunkt position in Chair and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin

Honors and Awards

  • 2004 - A team scientific award granted by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (G. Misztal, B. Paw, R. Skibiński, T. Sławik, Ł. Komsta) for a set of scientific papers regarding analysis of drugs
  • June 2005 - PhD summa cum laude
  • 2007 - Individual award granted by the Rector of Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Scientific Interests

  • Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, especially of pharmaceutical formulations
  • Chemometrics, both theory and its application in pharmacy
  • The use of open/free software in every day scientific practice

Technical Skills

  • C, C++, PHP, MySQL, Pascal, Delphi, POV-Ray, TeX/LaTeX
  • Own minilinux “LIAP” distribution (currently discontinued)

Selected scientific activities

  • A referee for the following journals: Analytica Chimica Acta, Central European Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Chromatography B, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Journal of Planar Chromatography - Modern TLC (JPC).

Publications

Software

  • GNU R packages
    • outliers - main tests for outliers used in chemical analysis, with own method of p-value approximation of Dixon test. If you use this package please cite:
      [2006, article | www | pdf]
      Komsta, L. (2006). Processing data for outliers. R News, 6(2), 10-13.
    • moonsun - Basic astronomical routines, inspired by Smith's “Practical Astronomy with your calculator”.
    • financial - Basic financial routines (cash flow, time value of money etc.) inspired by HP financial calculators.
    • moments - Moments, cumulants, skewness, kurtosis and related tests (written with Prof. Frederick Novometsky)
    • mblm - Median-based linear models (Theil-Sen).
    • quantchem - Quantitative chemical analysis: calibration and evaluation of results
    • dtt - Discrete Trigonometric Transforms
  • LaTeX
    • mgraml - a package for MSc/PhD dissertation (Polish description), created mainly for Medical University of Lublin

Personal hobby

  • Photography, both digital and classical self-developed
  • Classical music, especially baroque epoch
  • Electric guitar, currently (due to lack of time) mostly in theory
  • Amateur radio (SP8QED)
  • Collecting HP calculators of Pioneer series

Contact

  • Personal postal address: Po Box 118, 24-100 Pulawy-1, Poland
  • University address: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin, Collegium Anatomicum, Jaczewskiego 4 pok. 214, 20-090 Lublin
  • ICQ: 14892426
  • GG: 2929646
  • TLEN: sp8qed
  • Jabber: luke na jabber.atman.pl
 
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