Magdalena Gąssowska-Dobrowolska, PhD, DSc (Habilitation) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular Signalling at the Mossakowski Medical Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. She is a Polish biochemist who obtained both her PhD and habilitation degrees from the Pomeranian Medical University. Her main research interests focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration, neurodevelopmental disorders, and selected aspects of neurotoxicology. Dr Gąssowska-Dobrowolska is the author of numerous scientific publications in these fields. She is a member of the Polish Biochemical Society and the Polish Neuroscience Society. In addition, she serves as a reviewer of doctoral and habilitation theses in the area of biochemistry, neurobiology, and related biomedical sciences.