Prof. Dr. Marcin Samiec is a biotechnologist and embryologist with long-term and broad experience in the field. He is currently employed as a Senior Scientist (Professor) at the Department of Poultry Breeding of the National Research Institute of Animal Production in Balice/Kraków, Poland. His areas of expertise and interest include the following subfields: reproductive biology and biotechnology in mammals and aves; assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs); experimental and applied embryology; intra- and interspecies cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT); transgenesis; methods and molecular mechanisms of parthenogenetic activation; in vitro embryo production (IVP); in vitro maturation (IVM) and in vitro fertilization (IVF); epigenetic and molecular aspects of cell culture engineering, cell differentiation/dedifferentiation, embryogenesis and ARTs in mammalian and avian species; strategies of epigenetic modulation in somatic/stem cell, gamete and embryo culture engineering; unravelling the transcriptomic and proteomic profiles in somatic/stem cell lines, oocytes  and embryos; and ART-mediated programs focused on transgenic/biomedical research and ex situ biodiversity conservation. He is the author and ad hoc reviewer of many research articles published in high-impact journals indexed in JCR, WoS and Scopus databases. He is also the author of several patents granted for biotechnological/embryological inventions (indexed in the WoS database).