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

Scientific Stays

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
  • 2007,2008 - Individual scientific awards granted by the Rector of Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Scientific Interests

  • Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, especially of pharmaceutical formulations
  • Chemometrics, digital signal processing, image prosessing (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: Acta Chromatographica, 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

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. Richard Cook
  • 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
  • Pipe organ - construction, recording, virtualizing
  • 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
  • Skype: sp8qed

PGP/GPG

  • I have used several published keys: 0x35109EB8 (created in 2000, revoked), 0x114B25F1 (created in 2001, expired), 0x046FFC4F (created in 2005, expired). In 2005 - 2009 period I did not publish any keys, but generated them ad hoc (since used GPG rarely).
  • 0x662235C6 - current RSA/RSA (preferred) key, (local copy)
  • 0xA09AAEDB - current DSA/ELG key, (local copy)

S/MIME

  • CER DER d0:32:02:42:75:40:61:8f:0b:90:28:8f:90:96:02:76 - certificate for account at novum.am.lublin.pl.
  • CER DER ab:9d:44:48:36:8f:f4:ce:a7:91:63:0c:74:b6:c8:4c - certificate for account at umlub.pl.
 
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