Sylwia D. Tyrkalska undertook her undergraduate studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland), where she was awarded a scholarship for academic merit and obtained an M.Sc. in Biotechnology. Moreover, in 2010, she received an Erasmus Fellowship. In 2012, she obtained a contract from the Marie Curie ITN “FishForPharma” (European Commission) to develop her PhD in the laboratory of Prof. V. Mulero at the University of Murcia, Spain. There, she obtained a second M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and started her experience working with zebrafish models to study human diseases. Later, she continued working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mulero Lab (2015–2016). Next, she obtained the prestigious postdoctoral contract Brain Fellowship (Guarantors of the Brain, 2016) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission, 2017) to join the laboratory of Prof. D. Rubinsztein at the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2021, she was granted the postdoctoral fellowship Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación to rejoin the lab of Prof. V. Mulero at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is a scientific reviewer in several scientific journals such as Frontiers in Immunology, Developmental and Comparative Immunology, Cells, Molecules, Vaccines, Viruses, Life, etc., and she is an EU international expert evaluator for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships Projects.