Anna Matuszyńska (nee Weintrit) completed her Master's degree in Biomathematics in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Wojciech Bartoszek. Her student years at the Gdansk University of Technology were divided between scientific development (in 2008-2009 she also studied in EiA within the framework of individual teaching program) and active student activity (among others she was a chairperson of Faculty Students Division Council, represented students in PG Senate and was a member of Faculty Scientific Committee).
She started her professional career in the financial industry creating operational cost accounting models for one of the leaders in the debt collection industry in Poland. In 2012, she decided to return to university and deepened her interest in bio-medicine. In 2013 she graduated in Drug Discovery and Development from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). In the same year, she was recruited to the AccliPhot, an interdisciplinary research project funded by the European Commission, where she also started her PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr Oliver Ebenhöh. The project aimed to study the mechanisms of plant adaptation to unfavourable light conditions to create realistic models of photosynthesis. The experimental part of her research was conducted at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), CEA Grenoble (France) and the National Institute of Biology in Okazaki (Japan). In 2016, she defended her PhD thesis entitled "Mathematical models of light acclimation in plants and green algae".
Since 2014 she has been affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany). Currently, she is the leader of the DFG-funded scientific project iPHACTORY investigating the origins of high metabolic flow in specialized plant cells. Dr Matuszyńska also holds the position of Contributing Investigator in the inter-university Cluster of Excellence in Plant Sciences CEPLAS. In her research, she mainly uses computational methods based on differential equations and fluxomic techniques to create models of biological networks. She is a supporter of Open Science and a science communicator.
She currently lives in Düsseldorf with her husband and two sons.
