Barnacka received her PhDs in astronomy from
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, and physics from
Paris-Sud University conducting her research at
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris, France. After earning her doctorates, she became a
postdoctoral researcher at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received a
NASA Einstein Fellowship in 2015, during which she researched the phenomena of
gravitational lensing and pioneered techniques for turning gravitational lenses into high-resolution telescopes. Barnacka's research has also focused on very high energy
astroparticle physics, where she has been a member of international collaborations, including the
Cherenkov Telescope Array,
VERITAS, and
H.E.S.S. she has an
h-index of 43 with over 7100 citations to her work. Barnacka is the founder and
CEO of MindMics, a company presenting new tools to monitor vital signs related to cardiovascular health and wellness, and she has patent applications associated with this work. MindMics acts as a platform, that is composed of three parts: the hardware, the data systems and algorithms, and the interface. She has conducted studies on the technology's effectiveness, ==Selected publications==