Aleksandra Piórkowska-Kurpas graduated physics studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice in 2005, and in 2010, she obtained a PhD degree in physics from the same university. Currently, she is working as an assistant professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. As a researcher, she visited the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris and Beijing Normal University. Her research interests comprise phenomenological tests of physics at the fundamental level (the Lorentz Invariance Violation and modified gravity), gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, and observational cosmology.