Marek Pawelec graduated in Molecular Biology at the Jagiellonian University in 1992 and worked as a researcher at the Faculties of Medicine and Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. In 2001 he began to work as a full-time English to Polish freelance translator: started with literature, later added technical translations of medical, biochemical and chemical texts.

Marek has translated 31 novels and several millions pages of medical texts, mainly medical equipment manuals, but also a lot of pharmacology, IVD and clinical trials-related texts. He is an experienced computer-aided translation (CAT) software user and trainer. He is also a Certified memoQ trainer.

Marek was a speaker at several translation conferences. He teaches on practical aspects of freelance translation, CAT tools and translation related software. He is interested in technical communication and terminology management, and lends a hand to Translators Without Borders whenever he can.