Adrian Górecki obtained his master's degree from the University of Warsaw (UW) in 2016. After that, he started a full-time position as a scientific laboratory technician in the Department of Bacterial Genetics UW for 1 year. Since 2017 he is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology at UW. His doctoral thesis concern antibiotic metabolism in anthropogenically shaped and pristine microbiocenoses. During his Ph.D. study, he completes two foreign scholarships. First was held in 2017 at Centre Geomicrobiology department, GFZ German Research for Geoscience in Potsdam (Germany) where he analyzed environmental plasmid pool extracted from bacterial communities of the Somoylov island tundra. In 2019 he obtained a stipend from the European Molecular Biology Organization for a 3-month stay in the Laboratory of Bacterial Ecology at the Faculty of Biotechnology in the Catholic University of Portugal in Porto where under the supervision of prof. Celia Mania he learned theoretical and experimental aspects of measuring the abundance of ARGs in environmental samples by qPCR technique.
He also took part in the expedition to Spitsbergen in the Arctic to collect soil samples for the realization of the Ph.D. project. He is a co-author of 7 peer review articles with a summarised impact factor of 25,357 and several conference reports. His main research area focuses on broadly defined surveillance of antibiotic resistance genes in a wide spectrum of environments by combining molecular biology techniques with bioinformatics. Lately, he is analyzing ARGs confer resistance to so-called last-resort antibiotics i.e colistin or tigecycline. He is developing new pipelines for designing and computationally validating novel primer pairs and used them for the identification of ARGs in various environments. He is a co-developer of the LCPDb-ARGs (A literature-based, manually-curated database of PCR primers for the detection of ARGs). Since 2018 he is a chief technical officer at DDG Bioinformatics Ltd., a spin-off company from the University of Warsaw.