Prof. Ewa Szczepańska-Sadowska is a Polish physiologist and educator, graduated from the Medical Faculty of the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1998-2012, she was chairwoman of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Physiology at the Medical University of Warsaw. Her scientific fellowships abroad include the British Council Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation Fellowships at the Max-Planck Institut fűr Physiologische und Klinische Forshung, Bad Nauheim, Germany, and a fellowship in the Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA. She is an ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Science, full member and vice-president of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, chairwoman of the Committee of Physiological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Physiological Society, the International Brain Research Organisation, the Polish Physiological Society, the Polish Hypertension Society, and the International Union of Physiological Societies (IUPS) (1993-2001). She is the chairwoman of the Admission Committee of the IUPS Council, a member of the expert group of the European Foundation of Science, and a member of the Nominating Committee of the IUPS (2008-2012).