Dr. Magdalena Rys is an assistant professor at the Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow. She received her master’s degree in Environmental Analytics from the Faculty of Chemistry at Jagiellonian University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in the field of Plant Physiology from the Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, in 2011. Her main research interests include plant physiology, plant biology, environmental stresses, allelopathy, and spectroscopic methods used in plant physiology.