She received her Doctorate (1993) and Habilitation (2004) from the Collegium Medicum of Jagiellonian University. Since 2004, she has been head of the Department of Ophthalmology CM UJ. She is the head of the Clinical Department of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Oncology of the University Hospital in Kraków. Since 2013 she has been vice-president of the Polish Ophthalmology Society. She is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Klinika Oczna (official journal of the Polish Ophthalmic Society). In 2011, she received the title of professor. In the 2012–2017 term, she served as regional representative of Eastern Europe in the Authorities of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research, based in Leuven, Belgium.