Email: jomiecz@renci.org
Joanna (Asia) Mieczkowska is the Director of Strategic Research Operations at RENCI and an Office of the Director (OOD) member. In her role, Asia oversees RENCI’s day-to-day operations, develops and implements the strategy for research operations innovations and growth, and lays the groundwork to establish RENCI as a partner in the theoretical and applied Team Science Domain. She also oversees several RENCI Research and Operational Groups. Additionally, she co-leads several large, multi-institutional, and/or multi-disciplinary sponsored research and coordination projects, providing leadership in program management, outreach and engagement, and workforce development efforts.
Her previous professional life included K-12 teaching and managing one of UNC-CH’s genetics laboratories, which focused on researching transcription regulation of human and model organisms. She has supported the research in ENCODE and modENCODE projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and continues to deploy her NIH experience to current RENCI projects. Asia holds an MA in literature from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and a postgraduate diploma in Human Resources and Organizational Management from the School of Business and International Finances & International School of Managers in Warsaw, Poland.
