Jan Paczesny is an associate professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, where he serves as the Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs. He graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) with distinction in 2009. During his studies, he was an Erasmus student at Lund University, where he was appointed as a "Researcher from abroad" at the Biomedical Center (2008). He obtained his Ph.D. in physical chemistry with honors in 2012. He was appointed as a research fellow ("adjunct") at the Department of Soft Condensed Matter and Fluids at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2012. From May 2016 to March 2018, he was a post-doc fellow at IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter in Ulsan, South Korea. In 2020, he started the "Living Materials" group at the Department of Physical Chemistry of Biological Systems at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences.