APPOINTMENTS
Assitant Professor: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2005 -

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Researcher: Proteomics (Dr. Dietmar Kültz), University of California, Davis, 2003 – 2005
Postdoctoral Researcher: Biochemical Adaptation (Dr. George Somero), Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 1999 –2003

EDUCATION
Ph.D.: Oregon State University, Corvallis, Zoology, 1999 (Dr. George Somero)
MS, BS: University of Konstanz, Germany, Biology, 1995 (Dr. Meinhard Simon)

AWARDS AND HONORS
Scholander Award Finalist (American Physiological Society, 2002)
Dr. Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers Grant for Oceanographic and Marine Biology, 1997
Scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes – German Academic National Foundation (given to the top 0.3% of the students in Germany), 1989-1994

PUBLICATIONS
http://www.calpoly.edu/~ltomanek/publications.html

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor: Introduction to organismal form and function, Winter 2006
Graduate seminar on “Darwin’s dangerous idea”, Fall 2005
Lecturer: Applied biology for designers and artists, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, 2004/05
Co-instructor:Marine environmental physiology, Stanford University, 2001, 2003
Teaching assistant:
Marine invertebrates, Oregon State University, 1995
Human anatomy and physiology, Oregon State University, 1995
Systematic zoology, University of Konstanz, 1994
Invited teaching lectures:
Half a dozen lectures on issues from “Science and society”, and “Biological effects of global climate change” to “Biology and industrial design: what adaptations and ecosystems can teach us” given to grade-school, high-school and mechanical engineering students at Stanford University as well as corporate engineers.
Student laboratory advisor:
Advising and teaching of almost two dozen graduate, undergraduate and high-school students undertaking independent research projects for the duration of one quarter to a year, University of California, 2003-2004 and Stanford University, 1996 – 2003.

REVIEWER

Journals
American Journal of Physiology
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Biological Bulletin
Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry
Ecology Letters
Journal of Experimental Biology
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Journal of Comparative Biology
Journal of Thermal Biology
Marine Biology
Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.

Textbooks
Berg, Tymoczko and Stryer: Biochemistry (6th edition)

POPULAR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
Five contributions (since 2004) to the “Outside” section of the Journal of Experimental Biology.

SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
“Physiological ecology of rocky intertidal organisms: from molecules to ecosystems”, 2002 annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Anaheim, California, 2002 (with Dr. Brian Helmuth); supported by NSF grant 0131317.

“Temperature-dependent biogeography of aquatic ectotherms: from genes to the effects of climate change”, 2004 annual meeting of the German Zoological Society, Rostock (with Dr. Hans-Otto Pörtner).

COLLABORATIONS WITH INDUSTRY AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
Biomimicry Guild: A product development project for a Fortune500 company with the goal to mimic nature’s design solutions, 2004.
BioRad: Collaboration with a biotechnology company, a leader in electrophoresis and proteomics technologies, 2005/2006.