Dorota Gondek-Rosińska is a professor at the University of Warsaw and head of the Department of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Warsaw Astronomical Observatory. She also coordinates doctoral studies at the University of Warsaw Astronomical Observatory. Her research focuses on astrophysical sources of gravitational waves, such as rotating neutron stars, binary systems of neutron stars and black holes, and supernova explosions.

She also searches for signals in data from the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra gravitational wave detectors. She actively participates in the work of the future gravitational wave observatories: the Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer, and LISA. She has co-authored over 250 scientific publications. In 2011, for her outstanding contributions to scientific research, teaching, and popularization of science in Poland and internationally, Dorota Rosińska was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the first detection of gravitational waves. Dorota Rosińska, along with other scientists from the international LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration, received prestigious awards for her contribution to this discovery, including the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Gruber Cosmology Prize, the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Scientific Award of the Polish Physical Society.

She graduated in astronomy from the University of Warsaw, earned her doctorate from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and completed her habilitation at the Jagiellonian University. After her doctorate, she worked at the CAMK PAN, then at the Paris Observatory and Universite Paris 7 in France, at the University of Alicante in Spain, and at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Zielona Góra. A two-time winner of Foundation for Polish Science competitions, she created and led a research team of more than a dozen people working on the astrophysical sources of gravitational waves. She supervised five doctoral students.