prof. dr hab. Dorota Frydecka

She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science (Institute of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Technology), a Master's degree in Psychology (Institute of Humanities and Pedagogy, University of Wrocław), and a PhD in Medical Sciences (Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Wrocław). She has lectured and taught students at the Medical University of Wrocław (UMW), the University of Wrocław (UW) and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS) in Wrocław.

She conducts scientific research on psychoneuroimmunology and the impact of stress on mental health as part of national and international projects. In addition to classical statistics, she uses artificial intelligence methods for analysis. She has actively participated in many research projects, including as project manager: doctoral grant (2006-2008), own grant awarded by the Medical University of Wrocław (2008-2010 and 2011-2015), own grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSW) (2009-2011 and 2011-2015), a grant from the National Science Centre (NCN) Sonata (2014-2018), a grant from the Foundation for the Advancement of Science (FNP) (2015-2016), as a project contractor, including: grant awarded by the Medical Academy in Wrocław (2009-2010), grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (2010-2013 and 2011-2015) and as national coordinator in the international project ‘Brain Drain’ implemented by the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) (2013-2014).

She trained at the world's leading research centres in New York (Departments of Radiology, Neuroscience, and Psychology, Columbia University), London (Institute of Psychiatry King's College London), Oxford (European College of Neuropsychopharmacology), Berlin (Charite, Medical University of Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy), Copenhagen (Lundbeck Institute) and Paris (Laboratoire d'Éthologie et Cognition Comparées, BSL, Université Paris). She has won national and international awards for her scientific achievements, including a scholarship from the Minister of National Education (2006), a scholarship from the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University, Berlin (2008), a scholarship from the Warsaw Scientific Society (2010), a scholarship from the Niedźwirski Fund (2009), the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) (2014), the award for outstanding young scientists from the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) (2010), a scholarship from the German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (2010), scholarship from the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education of the American Psychiatric Association (2010), award from the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) in the ‘Inter’ programme (2014), awards from the Rector of the Medical University of Wrocław for important and creative scientific achievements, including six team awards (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), three individual awards (2017, 2018, 2019) and one organisational award (2019), the ‘Golden Synapse’ awards for the most significant article on psychiatry (2016, 2017, 2018). For her scientific achievements, she was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit (President of the Republic of Poland) (2017).

She is the author of several monographs and numerous scientific publications in high-impact journals (current Hirsch index 24). She has presented the results of her research at numerous national and international conferences. She is a reviewer for many renowned international journals, a guest editor for the Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Journal, and deputy editor-in-chief of the Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine journal. She was an independent reviewer appointed by the European Commission to evaluate European grant applications under the ‘Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing’ programme (2016, 2017).

In addition to her academic work, she is involved in clinical work, specialises in adult psychiatry and has participated in numerous psychotherapy courses, including Gestalt therapy, Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM) therapy, Bodynamic therapy and SOMA-Embodiment therapy.