Jacek Zielonka PhD, DSc

Dr. Jacek Zielonka, PhD, DSc, is an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. After completing his PhD training in 2002, he worked for 1.5 years as a lecturer at the Lodz University of Technology in Poland. In 2004, he joined the Department of Biophysics as a postdoctoral fellow, working on the chemistry of probes for cellular oxidizing species. In 2007, he became a research scientist; in 2015, he became research director of the MCW Free Radical Research Center; and in 2020, he was appointed as a director of the MCW Cancer Center Redox & Bioenergetics Shared Resource. His research interests include Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Immunohistochemistry, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Reactive Oxygen Species, Reaction Kinetics, Antioxidants, Chromatography, and Oxidative Stress.