Team
We are a small group — deliberately. A focused team working on a well-defined set of questions, with each person taking real intellectual ownership of their project.
Current members
Rafal Mostowy
PI · Associate Professor
MCB Jagiellonian University · since 2019
Dr Bogna Smug
Postdoctoral researcher
since July 2019
Dr Karol Ciuchcinski
Postdoctoral researcher
since December 2025
Janusz Koszucki
PhD student
since January 2020
Wanangwa Ndovie
PhD student
since October 2021 · thesis submitted
Vyshakh Rajachandra Panicker
PhD student
since December 2021
Aleksandra Sulma
Lab manager
since August 2022
Paula Konowalska
MSc student
since March 2026
Alumni
| Name | Role | Period | Now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Jade Leconte | Postdoc | Sep 2023 – Sep 2025 | |
| Dr Krzysztof Szczepaniak | Postdoc | Aug 2020 – Jan 2023 | IIMCB, Warsaw |
| Jan Havránek | MSc student | Oct 2020 – Jun 2021 | Eligo Biosciences, Paris |
PI — Rafal Mostowy
Rafal did his PhD at ETH Zurich (mathematical modelling of host-parasite coevolution), then held postdoctoral and fellowship positions at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford (bacterial population genomics, recombination inference). He joined Jagiellonian University in 2019 and has since shifted the group’s focus toward bacteriophage genomics. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025.
Full CV in the IAB report (2025).