Urszula Stachewicz is a professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. She earned her doctorate from Delft University of Technology in the field of fluid electrohydrodynamics, developing electrospray as a technique for precision material deposition. She conducted her doctoral research in collaboration with Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Queen Mary University of London and worked at Nanoforce Technology Ltd., where she focused on polymers and electrospinning.

In 2018, she conducted research at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy. Her research focuses on the properties of electrospun fibers and their applications in water and energy harvesting, as well as biomedical engineering. In 2020, she received a European Research Council grant (ERC Starting Grant, BioCom4SavEN). In 2024, she served as the main organizer of the 8th International Conference on Electrospinning in Krakow. She is the co-author of over 140 scientific publications, 5 book chapters and 7 patents.