Dr. Monika Hejna is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Veterinary and Animal Science (2021) from the University of Milan. During her doctoral studies, she had the opportunity to be a one-year visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis. Later, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher under the OPUS (from National Science Center of Poland) grant at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Her research focuses on plant-based nutraceuticals as sustainable alternatives to the overuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry.