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===== Scientific and personal page of Lukasz Komsta =====
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===== Education =====
* June 2001 - MSc in Pharmacy after 5-year study in [[http://www.umlub.pl|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 =====
* 2000 - One month stay (as a student) in [[http://www.piwet.pulawy.pl/|National Veterinary Research Institute]], Pulawy, Poland, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, team of Prof. Jan Zmudzki
* November 2008 - One month stay in [[http://chemometria.us.edu.pl/|Department of Chemometrics]], Institute of Chemistry, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland, team of Prof. Beata Walczak
===== 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)
* [[equal-spreading|Equal-spreading problem in TLC]]
* 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 =====
* [[papers|List of scientific publications]]
* [[http://www.wkl.com.pl/oferta.php?kd=1&dzial=2&id=201|My book about amateur radio]]
* [[http://www.sluzbazdrowia.com.pl/pdf/3556_raport-homeopatia.pdf|A report about homeopathy (Polish)]]
* [[publications|Some documents available locally]]
* [[wykaz|Wykaz leków]]
===== 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 **|
* [[http://www.r-project.org/|GNU R]] packages
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/outliers/index.html|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:
@ARTICLE{Rnews:Komsta:2006,
author = {Lukasz Komsta},
title = {Processing data for outliers},
journal = {R News},
year = 2006,
volume = 6,
number = 2,
pages = {10--13},
month = {May},
url = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/},
pdf = {http://CRAN.R-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-2.pdf}
}
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/moonsun/index.html|moonsun]] - Basic astronomical routines, inspired by Smith's "Practical Astronomy with your calculator".
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/financial/index.html|financial]] - Basic financial routines (cash flow, time value of money etc.) inspired by HP financial calculators.
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/moments/index.html|moments]] - Moments, cumulants, skewness, kurtosis and related tests (written with Prof. Frederick Novometsky)
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mblm/index.html|mblm]] - Median-based linear models (Theil-Sen).
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quantchem/index.html|quantchem]] - Quantitative chemical analysis: calibration and evaluation of results
* [[http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dtt/index.html|dtt]] - Discrete Trigonometric Transforms
* [[http://www.octave.org/|GNU Octave]] packages
* [[http://octave.sourceforge.net/outliers/index.html|outliers]] - a port of R package for Octave
* 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 =====
* e-mail:
* 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).
* [[http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE2281BB9662235C6|0x662235C6]] - current RSA/RSA (preferred) key, [[http://www.komsta.net/pgp-rsa.asc|(local copy)]]
* [[http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEF942A28A09AAEDB|0xA09AAEDB]] - current DSA/ELG key, [[http://www.komsta.net/pgp-dsa.asc|(local copy)]]
===== S/MIME =====
* [[http://www.komsta.net/novum.cer|CER]] [[http://www.komsta.net/novum.der|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.
* [[http://www.komsta.net/umlub.cer|CER]] [[http://www.komsta.net/umlub.der|DER]] ab:9d:44:48:36:8f:f4:ce:a7:91:63:0c:74:b6:c8:4c - certificate for account at umlub.pl.