Jacek Piatek

Biography:

Prof. Jacek Piatek studied at the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Poznan, Poland. He worked from 1985 until 2018 at the Department of Physiology, University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland. From 2011 to 2013, he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Rural Medicine in Lublin, Poland. Since 2018, he has been a professor at the Calisia University, Kalisz, Poland, where he was the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences for a year. He is now heading the Internal Disease Department of the University. His research is focused on the gut microbiota, probiotics, and synbiotics. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed research publications and of two scientific books.