Barbara Bojko studied laboratory medicine at the Medical University of Silesia (Poland), where she received her Master’s degree in 2001 and PhD degree in pharmaceutical sciences in 2005 with specialization in pharmaceutical biochemistry. The same year she became an Assistant Professor at the same university and in 2009 she joined Prof. Pawliszyn group at University of Waterloo (Canada), initially as a Postdoctoral Fellow and later as a Research Associate (2012-2015). In 2014, she completed her Habilitation (DSc) in the field of analytical chemistry at Medical University of Gdańsk (Poland) and became an Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University NCU (Poland), where she established her research group. Her research focuses mainly on the introduction of new analytical solutions based on microextraction techniques and mass spectrometry to clinical diagnostics and research in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. This includes particularly the use of Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) for metabolomic and lipidomic analysis towards biomarkers discovery, spatial and temporal resolution analysis of organs in vivo, and sampling “on-site” in surgery and emergency room as a part of rapid diagnostic process. Her research team also works on application of microextraction-based protocols at subsequent steps of drug discovery and development: from 2D and 3D cell line culturing assays to minimum invasive in vivo sampling of laboratory animals.