I began in science.
I studied pharmacy and biotechnology in Poland, then worked on research projects across pharmacology, microbiology, and neuroscience in Poland, Belgium, and Italy. Those years gave me a broad view of how biology works, from molecules to the brain.
Eventually I chose neuroscience as my main path and moved to Groningen, the Netherlands, for a PhD focused on brain imaging. I became particularly interested in how complex systems can be understood through data, patterns, and measurement. That interest later took me to London, where I continued in imaging research at King’s College London.
My academic journey across Europe: Poland, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
At some point, I realised I was equally interested in what happens after discovery: how useful ideas leave the lab and become products, tools, or companies. So I left academia and moved into industry.
My first commercial role was in medical imaging for drug development. There I learned the basics of business development, project management, sales, and marketing, in other words, how advanced technical services are sold and delivered in the real world.
Medical imaging also exposed me to the practical use of Artificial Intelligence. AI was already being used to improve imaging analysis, automate workflows, and extract value from complex datasets. That experience expanded my interests beyond imaging into the broader world of software, automation, and emerging technologies.
To learn faster, I started my own company, Ekai Ltd, focused on commercialization, growth strategy, marketing, and business development for technical products. Working across different sectors taught me how similar many business problems are beneath the surface: growth, positioning, trust, timing, execution, and clear communication.
Starting my own company gave me the freedom to choose the projects I work on, and often where and when I work on them.
Industry also taught me something academia rarely emphasizes enough: technical ability matters, but psychology matters too. Confidence, resilience, communication, decision-making under uncertainty, and the ability to manage stress often determine whether good ideas succeed.
Today my work sits at the intersection of science, AI, and commercialization. I am involved in business development, strategic partnerships, investor conversations, growth strategy, client acquisition, founder positioning, hiring, go-to-market thinking, and cross-functional R&D discussions.
I work with FinalSpark, a frontier technology company developing biological computing systems using living neurons. This has taken me deep into biocomputing, wetware computing, and organoid intelligence, while also giving me the opportunity to collaborate with researchers and companies working across mathematics, signal processing, neuromorphic computing, and other areas of next-generation computing.
At FinalSpark, I combine my background in neuroscience with my interest in emerging computing technologies. Our work explores biocomputing: using living neurons as part of computational systems.
Although I occasionally visit the laboratory, most of my work is commercial and strategic, including business development, sales, marketing, partnerships, investor relations, and fundraising. Like many frontier-tech startups, we operate in largely unexplored territory, which means learning quickly, experimenting, and adapting as we go.
Along the way, I learned Python and the basics of data analysis and signal processing. I am not an engineer, but this technical grounding helps me follow R&D discussions and work across scientific, engineering, and commercial teams.
I also built Psync, a mental wellness venture designed to bring practical psychology tools into everyday life. It grew from my long-standing interest in psychology, behaviour, and technology that improves human performance.
I am also a speaker. My talks tend to focus on two areas where neuroscience intersects with psychology or artificial intelligence.
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The human mind
How can we think clearly, make better decisions, set priorities, and create the conditions for flow in a world increasingly shaped by AI?
I explore how technology can affect attention, behaviour, decision-making, and wellbeing, and how we can use what we know about the brain and psychology to work more effectively without becoming overwhelmed by technology.
2. Emerging technologies
I explore where computing may go next, particularly bio-inspired approaches. This includes neuromorphic computing, which applies principles inspired by neuroscience to computing hardware, and biocomputing, where living neurons themselves can become part of a computational system.
If you are curious about these topics, you can find more of my thinking in my talks, podcasts, videos, and articles.
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I have recorded more than 100 online interviews and numerous short videos about science, technology, and the human mind. Live speaking has a special energy: you can interact directly with the audience, see their reactions, and learn from them. Video has a different advantage, it allows ideas to reach people far beyond the room.
Across all of these projects, the common theme is the same: translating complex knowledge into practical value.
I like to break difficult problems into smaller pieces and look for the fundamentals.
One of the first pieces of advice my PhD supervisor gave me was: learn the basics first. If you understand the fundamentals, the more advanced ideas become much easier. If you start at the highest level, it is easy to become confused.
That advice stayed with me far beyond research.
I discovered that the same approach works when explaining science and technology to other people. Once a complicated idea is broken down into its fundamental parts, it often becomes surprisingly simple. People sometimes tell me after a conversation, “I didn’t realise it was that easy.”
That is the style of science communication I have developed over the years: start with the fundamentals, remove unnecessary complexity, and build a story people can follow.
I remain curious about how new technologies reshape business, how biology may influence the future of computing, and how people can adapt to rapid change.
If you would like to discuss an advisory project, collaboration, speaking engagement, or an ambitious new venture, feel free to get in touch.