Malgorzata Lekka

Malgorzata Lekka is a full professor and head of the Department of Biophysical Microstructures at the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. She received her MS in physics in 1993 from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Jagiellonian University, Poland, and doctorate (summa cum laude) and habilitation in physics from the Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics in 1998 and 2008, respectively. In 1999, Dr. Lekka presented the first AFM results that proved different mechanical properties of normal and cancerous cells. Her principal areas of interest are AFM and its application in cell biomechanics, structure of the cytoskeleton and its functions, reactive oxygen species and their influence on cells, and mechanical and structural differences between normal and cancerous cells.