She was employed as an associate professor in the Department of Botany, Physiology and Plant Protection, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland.

EDUCATION/SCIENTIFIC DEGREES:
MSc in Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 1995; PhD in Biology, spec. plant physiology, Institute of Molecular Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, 2000; DSc in Biology, spec. plant physiology and biotechnology, Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland, 2014.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: plant physiology/biochemistry; environmental chemistry; ecotoxicology; environmental biotechnology; phytoremediation of water polluted by metallic elements

RESEARCH OUTPUTS: leader of 3 national projects, contractor in 7 projects including the 3 supported by UE Funds; 34 papers, 1 patent, h-index 10, total IF 74.2; reviewer of several dozen papers (i.a. for Aquatic Toxicology; Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; Chemosphere; Environmental Pollution; Environmental Science and Pollution Research; Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety; Journal of Hazardous Materials; International Journal of Phytoremediation)

SELECTED SCHOLARSHIPS & PRIZES: Individual scientific scholarship, TEMPUS Funds, Lisbon University, Portugal, 1997; Individual scientific scholarship, European Science Foundation, Antwerp University, Belgium, 1999; Award for confocal microscopy cytoskeleton visualisation, 2006, Molecular Probes, USA; Prestigious Individual Polish Award for the series of publications on Cr-polluted water phytoremediation, Warsaw, Poland, 2016; Gold medal for the project (leader – J. Augustynowicz), International Warsaw Invention Show IWIS, Warsaw, Poland, 2019

TEACHING ACTIVITY: c.a. 4800 hours of laboratory classes, seminars and lectures; lecturer of international ERASMUS+ program and coordinator of MSc program in Environmental and Plant Biotechnology (English)