Dr Magdalena Montowska is awarded a prize from the Prime Minister of Poland

Marie Curie Research Fellow Dr Magdalena Montowska has received a prestigious award from the Prime Minister of Poland for an outstanding doctoral dissertation for 2012. It is the most significant award for doctoral thesis in Poland. The prize is £5000.

She joined Professor David Barrett’s Analytical Bioscience Research Group in June 2012, shortly after obtaining her PhD, and continues her research on food authentication. The objective of her two-year AUTHENTIMEAT project is to develop authentication of meat products using ambient surface mass spectrometry; including desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) and liquid extraction surface analysis (LESA) mass spectrometry. She also works in collaboration with Professor's Morgan Alexander (Pharmacy) and Greg Tucker (Biosciences) as well as Professor David Barrett.