In 1981, she completed her master's degree in biology at the Jagiellonian University.[2] In 1990, also at the Jagiellonian University, she obtained a doctorate in natural sciences, in biology, based on her thesis entitled Udział serotoniny w regulacji rytmiki aktywności lokomotorycznej świerszcza domowego (The role of serotonin in the regulation of the rhythmicity of locomotor activity in the house cricket (Acheta domesticus L.)), supervised by Janusz Wojtusiak.[2] In 1998, she obtained her habilitation at the Jagiellonian University based on her thesis entitled Rytmy biologiczne i strukturalna plastyczność w układzie wzrokowym Musca domestica i Drosophila melanogaster (Biological rhythms and structural plasticity in the visual system of Musca domestica and Drosophila melanogaster).[2] In 2003, she was awarded the title of professor of biological sciences.[2]
Her specializations include cell biology, chronobiology, insectphysiologicalethology, insect neurobiology, and zoology.[2] She has completed seventeen research projects and co-authored nearly eighty original research papers.[2][3] At the Jagiellonian University, she has lectured on cell biology, neuroethology, the evolution of the nervous system, and developmental biology.[1] She has supervised sixteen Ph.D.s.[1] She is a member of the Committee on Neurobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[2] She was the chair of the Committee on Developmental Biology of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2] She is a member of the organizing committee of Brain Week in Kraków[4] and a member of the Council of Ambassadors of the Cogiteon Małopolska Science Center[pl].[5]
