Name: | Anna |
Surname: | Iwaniak |
Academic title: | Professor |
Post: | Professor |
E-mail: | ami@uwm.edu.pl |
Phone: | +48 89 5233722 |
Fax: | +48 89 5233722 |
ORCID | |
Address: | University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Faculty of Food Science Chair of Food Biochemistry 10-726 Olsztyn, Pl. Cieszyński 1 room No 135 |
Education and professional achievements:
1995 | M.Sc. of Food Technology, Academy of Agriculture and Technology in Olsztyn. |
1999 | 1st rank award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for the scientific achievements. |
12.1999 | Scientific practicum concerning the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) in Shimadzu GmbH, Duisburg, Germany |
2001 | Scholarship for the outstanding and active scientists who contributed to project realization (project title: “Application of hydrolytic enzymes for the obtaining of biologically active peptides from rare-used protein materials”). |
1.12.2001-1.03.2002 | Research training in the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton Cambridgeshire (Great Britain) within the framework of Marie Curie scholarship. |
05.2002 | Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, speciality: food technology and nutrition (field: food biochemistry). Employment on the post of assistant professor in the Chair of Food Biochemistry, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. |
2003 | 3rd rank award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for the doctoral thesis |
03.2004 | Scholarship of Foundation of the Members of The Polish Academy of Sciences in agricultural, forestry and veterinary sciences |
01.07.2005-24.12.2005 | Research practicum at University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada) in the range of Mr. and Mrs. Dekaban Foundation scholarship. |
2006 | The award of the President of University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn for the scientific achievements |
2007 | Scholarship for the outstanding and active scientists who contributed to project realization (project title: “Studies on the structure and activity of peptides with specific biological activity”). |
2007 | European Commision expert of panel “Food Quality and Safety 2” |
2008 | The award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for organizational activity. |
26.01.-14.02.2009 | Short-term scienitific visit in the Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Tartu (Estonia) in the range of the scholarship granted by the President of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. |
2010 | The award of the President of University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn for the scientific achievements |
September 2010 | Study visit in the Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Porto (Portugal) in the range of NOBEL program |
February 2012 | Dr Habil. of Agricultural Sciences. |
April 2013 | Visiting lecturer in Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) in the range of the ERASMUS programme. |
April 2014 | Associate Professor. |
May 2014 | Visiting Professor in Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) (Erasmus program). |
December 2015 | 1st rank award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for didactic achievements. |
December 2016 | 1st rank award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for scientific achievements. |
December 2017 | 2nd rank award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for scientific achievements. |
December 2018 | 2nd rank award of the President of Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn for scientific achievements.January 2019 |
January 2019 | Professor of Agricultural Sciences |
November 2019 – October 2020 | Vice Chairperson of the Scientific Council: Food Technology and Human Nutrition in the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. |
January – December 2020 | Guest Editor of the Special Issue “New Trends in Environmental Engineering, Agriculture, Food Production, and Analysis” in Applied Sciences. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/EEAFPA |
July 2020 | Topic Editor in Applied Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3417; MDPI). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/topic_editors |
November 2020 – December 2021 | Guest Editor “Special Issue on Bioactives in Different Commodities (Part II) Dairy in Journal of Food Biochemistry. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17454514/homepage/special-issue-call-for-papers#Bioactive-Dairy |
Novemebr 2020 | Editorial Board Member of Nutraceuticals (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nutraceuticals/editors) |
January 2023-December 2026 | Chairperson of the Scientific Council: Nutrition and Food Technology in the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn |
June 2024 | Member of the Scientific Council of Institute of Agricultural and Food Biotechnology – State Research Institute (IBPRS-PIB) in Warsaw – representative of Ministry of Science and Higher Education. |
Scientific and research activity
Computer analysis of food proteins as the source of bioactive peptides including:new criteria of proteins evaluationdatabases of biomoleculesdesign of proteolytic processes in aspect of bioactive peptides production; structural aspects of occurence of amino acid sequences in proteins being the precursors of bioactive peptides, the application of bioinformatic methods in the analysis of functional and structural relations between proteins; bioinformatics, chemometrics and cheminformatics in peptide analysis
Scientific output
256 scientific publications, 1 manual
Membership
European Peptide Society; Polish Society of Food Technologists; Polish Society of Nutritional Sciences; International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF)