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Marcin Kawalski
Marcin Kawalski is constantly intrigued by the human experience. Moving comfortably across cultures, languages and borders, he propels himself through photography and endurance sports. He’s a Katowice-based doctor with three years of international internship experience. He’s also medical entrepreneur who is introducing emerging technologies to the healthcare industry, an avid marathon runner, a diver and a photographer who frequently gives talks on underwater photography and is currently studying at Singularity University in the NASA Research Park in Mountain View, California.
As if that wasn’t enough, Marcin is also on the Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a developing a world-class think tank with a rich cognitive diversity of philosophers, economists, biologists, nanotechnologists, AI researchers, educators, policy experts, engineers, lawyers, ethicists, futurists, neuroscientists, physicists, space experts, and other top thinkers, helping “humanity survive existential risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and robotics”.
Perhaps not surprising for a person who fits so much in to his life, Marcin is also interested in sleep. He’s the Medical Innovations Officer at the Sleep Research Laboratory and the Director of the I. Moscicki Hospital in Chorzow where his sleep research looks at the ways the sleep cycle can be limited and at the genetic make up of people who require as little as one hour of sleep per day to function normally.