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• 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

• 2000 - One month stay (as a student) in National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, team of Prof. Jan Zmudzki
• November 2008 - One month stay in Department of Chemometrics, Institute of Chemistry, Silesian University, Katowice, Poland, team of Prof. Beata Walczak

• 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 on “Analysis of selected fibrate-type antihyperlipidemic drugs”
• 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Individual scientific awards granted by the Rector of Medical University of Lublin, Poland
• November 2010 - DSc (habilitation) on “Application of new chemometric methods in thin layer chromatography of drugs and biologically active complex mixtures”
• since 2012 - member of chemometrics team of Analytical Chemistry Commitee of Polish Academy of Sciences

• Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, especially of pharmaceutical formulations
• Chemometrics, digital signal processing, image prosessing (both theory and its application in pharmacy)
• Computational Chemistry (ab initio, DFT etc.)
• Equal-spreading problem in TLC
• The use of open/free software in every day scientific practice

• Polish Pharmaceutical Society (PTFarm)
• Polish Chemical Society (PTChem)
• Polish Amateur Radio Union (PZK)

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

• A referee for several journals, including: 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).
• Member of Editorial Board of Acta Chromatographica.

• List of scientific publications
• List of Polish technical articles
• My book about amateur radio
• A report about homeopathy (Polish)
• Some documents available locally
• Wykaz leków

• 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

• GNU Octave packages
  • 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

• Recently I have created GNUTypewriter font.

• 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

• Private e-mail: luke [atsign] ulterior [dotsign] pl
• University e-mail: lukasz.komsta [atsign] umlub [dotsign] pl
• 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
• GG: 2929646
• Skype: sp8qed

• 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 - RSA/RSA (revoked)
• 0xA09AAEDB - DSA/ELG (revoked)
• 0x4AC0B419 - newest RSA/RSA, used with smartcard.

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