Prof. Małgorzata Kwiecień has been a research employee at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin since 1989. She completed her higher studies at the Faculty of Zootechnics of the Agricultural University of Lublin in 1989 and started working as an assistant at the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Hygiene of the Agricultural University of Lublin. She obtained her doctoral degree in agricultural sciences in the field of zootechnics, specializing in zootechnics in 1998 and she was promoted to the position of assistant professor at the Institute of Animal Nutrition (currently the Institute of Animal Nutrition and Bromatology). In 2012, she obtained a habilitation degree in agricultural sciences in the field of zootechnics, specialty—animal nutrition. In 2018, at the request of the Council of the Faculty of Biology, Animal Sciences and Bioeconomy, she was employed as an associate professor at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin. By order of 1 October 2019, the President of the Republic of Poland awarded her the academic title of professor of agricultural sciences. The leading field of scientific activity of Prof. Małgorzata Kwiecień is issues covering metabolic and environmental conditions of the growth and development processes of the animal body, with particular emphasis on the skeletal system. The main direction of research is the metabolism of mineral elements.