Nikola Bukowiecka
Company: UN Global Compact Network Poland
Position: Member
She's conducting her PhD research in the field of computational and theoretical astrophysics at the University of Rhode Island (USA). She’s a board member at the Polish Astrobiology Society and a member of the Climate Council UN GCNP.
She's collaborating with Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University and with Flatiron Institute in NYC. She’s at the intersection of physics, astrophysics, mathematics, computation and biological sciences.
Formerly a physicist at the Space Research Centre PAS (project GLOWS, part of NASA’s IMAP mission), astrophysical software developer at Wolfram Research (USA), AOCS engineer and mission planner for Polish satellites at Creotech Instruments S.A. Intern at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Germany) working with fusion reactor Wendelstein 7-X. Obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics with the specialization in medical physics at the University of Szczecin and her engineering degree in automation and robotics at West Pomeranian University of Technology.