Dr. Dariusz Panka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and Plant Protection at Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland. He obtained his PhD degree in 1999 and his Habilitation degree in 2013. He has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, USA (2006) and Stanford University in California, USA. He possesses excellent expertise in fostering collaboration between academia and business. His research primarily focuses on biological methods of plant protection, grass endophytes, and mechanisms of increased plant resistance in symbiotic associations with fungal endobionts under stressful conditions, as well as on the effects of non-thermal plasma on microorganisms in plant material and food.
