About

Artur Góra received Ph.D. degree in Chemistry in 2002 from the Jagiellonian University in Poland working on selective catalytic reduction of nitric oxides by ammonia (DFT and experimental work). Later he moved to Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences and was engaged in project dedicated to smart windows (theoretical work). In 2004 he was awarded a JSPS fellowship, and from 2004 to 2006 he was working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology at Sendai in Japan. His research were focused on hydrogen separation with the use of palladium membranes. From 2010 to 2013, he has been Marie Curie fellow at the Loschmidt Laboratories of the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic and was studying dynamics and reengineering of haloalkane dehalogenases. Since 2014 he is a leader of Tunneling Group located in Biotechnology Centre, Silesian University of Technology. He obtained habilitation in 2019, in 2021 become Professor of SUT and in 2024 he obtained Full Professorship. Between 2016 and 2019 he was the Deputy Director for Science at Biotechnology Centre, Silesian University of Technology in Poland.

Research interests

Artur Góra research are focused on protein engineering, inhibitors and drug design and software development facilitating molecular dynamic simulations results analysis and interpretation. He is involved in several national and international projects dedicated to drug and inhibitors design, development of modern hybrid catalysts combining enzymes and nanomaterials, understanding of molecular bases of rare diseases, development of new antimicrobial peptides, and polymers degradation. Primary areas of research include analysis of intra-atomic spaces in macromolecules with the usage of the dynamics of the solvent molecules freely exploring the available spaces inside proteins interiors facilitated by in-house developed AQUA-DUCT tool.

Working with BioExcel

Artur has joined the BioExcel network quite recently after his team members participation at the annual BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular simulations in 2023. Within projects realised in Tunneling Group he employs GROMACS (for trans membrane proteins and ion channels) and HADDOCK software (TLR – protease complexes study). Experience gained during BioExcel workshop was transferred to hands-on training schools organized during international events. In perspective, he plans to bring closer analysis performed by own water tracking tool  with GROMACS package and extend usage of BioBB library.

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