Arkadiusz Chworos

Arkadiusz Chworos received the M.Sc. degree (magna cum laude) in organic chemistry from the University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz. He was engaged in the field of chemical modifications and stability of nucleic acids. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France. Then he moved to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he is currently a Researcher in the Physics Department, and was involved in self-assembly and visualization of DNA/RNA nanoarchitectures. His current research interests include the understanding of nucleic acids folding and interactions, biosensors and biocomposites, scanning probe microscopy, molecular bionanotechnology, bioinformatics and image analysis.