Tomasz Zajkowski

Tomasz Zajkowski is a Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. Tomasz is also the President of the Polish Astrobiology Society. Tomasz previously worked at Switch Bioworks as a Founding Scientist II, focusing on synthetic biology. Tomasz has experience as a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine and as an Associate Scientist at Universities Space Research Association. Prior to that, Tomasz was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Warsaw and completed their PhD at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology. Their research interests include understanding the role of amyloids in the earliest forms of life and engineering non-model microbes for nitrogen fixation and plant colonization.