Piotr Majka was born in Białystok, Poland, and graduated in Applied Physics at the Warsaw University of Technology. He completed his PhD in Neuroinformatics in 2014 at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology. He then transferred to Melbourne, Australia, for a post-doctoral position in Marcello Rosa's laboratory at Monash University to focus on integrating data on structural connectivity of the marmoset monkey cerebral cortex.
After moving back to Poland in 2016, Piotr assumed the position of assistant professor at the Nencki Institute, where he concentrated on interdisciplinary research related to the integration of multimodal and multiscale imaging datasets and the application of statistical and machine learning methods to get insight into large–scale imaging datasets, in particular in the context of computational neuroanatomy.
Piotr has published twenty four papers and, as a strong supporter of open science, released several scientific software packages. He is also an active member of expert groups focusing on standardization and establishing the best practices in neurobiology, digital brain atlasing, and neuroimaging data exchange.
