Dorota Brzezinska teaches about ventilation and fire protection at the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering at Lodz University of Technology since 1999. She has got also lectures of smoke control systems at Technical University of Warsaw, and The Main School of Fire Service in Warsaw. She has been involved in research about smoke control systems since 1998, when she started to work as ventilation systems designer in Q&W Associates, Inc. Poland Sp. z o. o., and later as chief of fire safety products in Ciat Inc. Poland Sp. z o. o. (2000–2002). In 2005 she received her Ph. D. (Thesis Title: “Modeling of smoke movement in buildings”, described smoke movement CFD analysis on the evacuation roads in high buildings and identified maximum fire size for keeping good evacuation conditions on the evacuation roads, under different smoke management systems). She is the author of over 180 technical publications and conference papers and co-author of “Handbook of smoke control in high buildings”, published in 2003. Her research is focused on smoke control and daily ventilation systems in buildings. She has extensive experience in the design of ventilation and smoke control systems in real objects. She was Vice President of Society of Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE) Polish Chapter and is an active member of Polish Society of Fire Engineers and Technicians (SITP), ASHRE, SFPE, IBPSA, Poland.