Geneticist, professor at the Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw. She has researched mitochondrial diseases. Populariser of science (award of the Polish Genetic Society and award of the Polish Association of Science Journalists). Scholarship holder of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Cologne in 1986-1988. Member of Science Expert Groups of PISA in 2006-2009, 2010-2017 member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee, since 2015. Committee on Bioethics at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2016 and 2021 member of the Identification Committee of the European Commission for the selection of members of the EGE (European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies). Member of the WHO Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing. Author of more than 100 scientific publications.