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
- June 2005 – PhD on “Analysis of selected fibrate-type antihyperlipidemic drugs”
- 2002 – 2007 – The assistant position in Chair and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin
- November 2010 – DSc (habilitation) on “Application of new chemometric methods in thin layer chromatography of drugs and biologically active complex mixtures”
- 2007 – 2014 – The adiunkt position in Chair and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin
- Since 2015 – The professor position in Chair and Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Medical University of Lublin
- 2011 – Silver Cross of Merit granted by President of Republic of Poland
- June 2013 – certified (national) specialist in pharmaceutical analysis
- August 2014 – full professorship in pharmaceutical sciences granted by President of Republic of Poland
- December 2018 – certified (national) specialist in pharmacology
- September 2023 – BSc in Slavic Philology (Silesian University) – Serbian as the first language, Bulgarian as the second one
Scientific Stays
- 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
Scientific Interests
- Chemometrics, digital signal processing, image prosessing (both theory and its application in pharmacy). Most of my publications and current activity touches chemometrics and chromatography.
- Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, especially of pharmaceutical formulations
- Computational Chemistry (ab initio, DFT etc.)
- Equal-spreading problem in TLC
- The use of open/free software in every day scientific practice
Membership
- Polish Pharmaceutical Society (PTFarm)
- Polish Chemical Society (PTChem)
- Polish Botanical Society (PTB)
- Chemometrics team of Analytical Chemistry Commitee of Polish Academy of Sciences
- Scientific Commitee of Szczyrk Symposia Series
- Secretary of Pharmaceutical Section in Lublin department of Polish Academy of Sciences
- Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe
Reviewer’s activity
- Acta Chromatographica, African Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Analytica Chimica Acta, Analytical Chemistry Insights, Biomedical Chromatography, Bulletin of the Veterinary Institute in Pulawy, Central European Journal of Chemistry (now Open Chemistry), Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quaterly, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Chromatographia, Chromatography Research International, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Current Analytical Chemistry, Current Pharmaceutical Analysis, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Food Chemistry, Industrial Crops and Products, Journal of AOAC International, Journal of Brazilian Chemical Society, Journal of Chemometrics, Journal of Chromatographic Science, Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Chromatography B, Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, Journal of Molecular Structure, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC, Journal of Separation Science, Mass Spectrometry Reviews, Phytochemistry Letters, Spectrochimica Acta Part A
Editorial Activity
- Member of Editorial Board (Section Editor since 2022) of Acta Chromatographica.
- Editor of Chemistry Section in CURIPMS (2011-2016)
Personal hobby
- Programming
- Photography, both digital and classical self-developed
- Classical music, especially baroque epoch
- Amateur radio (SP8QED)
- Collecting HP calculators of Pioneer series
Contact
- 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
PGP/GPG
- 0xC6BC73536AE298FF – current EC25519 key, generated on 20th December 2023, used as the designated revoker to revoke the previous key. Generated with offilne Tails Linux, transferred to smartcards, safely deposited backup.
- Previous keys – 0x4AC0B419 (created in 2011, revoked), 0x35109EB8 (created in 2000, revoked), 0x114B25F1 (created in 2001, expired), 0x046FFC4F (created in 2005, expired), 0x662235C6 – RSA/RSA (revoked), 0xA09AAEDB – DSA/ELG (revoked). In 2005 – 2009 period I did not publish any keys, but generated them ad hoc (since used GPG rarely).
S/MIME
I am a CaCert Assurer.