Józef R. Lewandowski graduated with BA in Chemistry (supervisor: Lynmarie Thompson; "REDOR-filtered Rotational Resonance") and Theater & Dance (supervisor: Wendy Woodson; directing/stage design thesis "The Marriage or Men Die First") from Amherst College in 2002 and PhD in Physical Chemistry (supervisor: R. G. Griffin; "Methodology and Applications of High Resolution Solid-state NMR to Structure Determination of Proteins") from Massachussets Insititute of Technology in 2008. He undertook his postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie Fellow in the laboratory of Lyndon Emsley in Centre de RMN à Très Haut Champs, Lyon, France (2008-2011). In 2011 he took up Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry position at the University of Warwick. In 2015 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2019 to full Professor.

Awards

2015 Anatole Abragam Prize from International Society of Magnetic Resonance

2016 Marlow Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry

2016 R.A. Robinson Lectureship Bursary

Main past and current grants

• BBSRC Alert21, BB/W020297/1 (2022): Enabling new characterisation methods for dynamic systems through the upgrade of 700 MHz solution NMR spectrometer
• BBSRC Responsive Mode, BB/W003171/1 (2021-2025):Illuminating and exploiting programmed O-methylation in trans-AT polyketide synthases (with Greg Challis)
• BBSRC Alert19, BB/T018119/1: Renewal of the 600 MHz solid-state NMR console for biological applications
• BBSRC Responsive Mode, BB/R010218/1 (2018-2021): Elucidating and exploiting docking domain-mediated carrier protein recognition in natural product megasynthetases (with Greg Challis)
• ERC Starting Grant 639907 (2015-2020): Structural Dynamics of Large Protein Complexes
• BBSRC New Investigator Grant, BB/L022761/1 (2015-2017): Biophysical basis for the chain termination in the enacyloxin polyketide synthase
• Gates Foundation, OPP1160394 (2017): Development of orally active analogues of Teixobactin (with Chris Dowson, Novobiotic + other partners)
• EPSRC First Grant, EP/L025906/1 (2014-2015): 100 kHz magic angle spinning for development of solid-state NMR methodology for probing protein dynamics
• Royal Society Research Grant, RG130022 (2013-2014): Preparation of protein complexes for high-resolution solid-state NMR studies