In 1977, she graduated with a Master's degree in biology from the University of Warsaw.[2] In 1979, she started working at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1] In 1987–1988, she obtained her PhD. In 1991–1993, she was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University.[3]
She worked at the Nencki Institute, until 1997 in the Neurochemistry Laboratory.[1] In the years 1998–2016, she co-headed the Laboratory of Reinnervation Processes in the Department of Neurophysiology.[1] In 2004, she obtained her habilitation.[2] In 2014, she obtained the title of professor of biological sciences[2] (awarded in 2015).[4] She was the head of the Department of Neurophysiology at the Nencki Institute from 2014 to 2018.[1] In 2016, she became the head of the Restorative Neurobiology Group.[1] For several terms, she was a member of the institute's Scientific Council.[1]
She was a member of the presidium of the Polish Neuroscience Society (PTBUN);[1] in 2015–2017 she was its president.[5] She became the chairwoman of the Scientific Council of the M. Mossakowski Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Polish Academy of Sciences,[1] a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society[1] and the chairwoman of the Committee on Neurobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[2] She supervised two doctoral dissertations.[6] She retired at the end of 2024.[1]
