Aleksander F. Sikorski PhD

Dr. Aleksander F. Sikorski is a professor in biochemistry and cell biology at the Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław. His major scientific interests are membrane biochemistry, in particular, structure and function and the biological role of spectrin as well as in the lateral organization of biological membranes. His long-lasting interest is in the application of liposomes as drug carriers. He has been an author and co-author of more than 130 scientific papers (the great majority published in peer-reviewed journals) and supervised 24 Ph. D. students who successfully obtained their degrees.

He is one of the founding editors and since 2016 Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters” (Established in 1996, i.f. 1.7) which is now published in collaboration with BMC/ Springer Nature. He has been a team leader for about 25 years and a chair of the Department of Cytobiochemistry since 2001. He was a founding Head of the Academic Center for Biotechnology of Lipid Aggregates for 8 years (2002-2010).