Pavla Bojarová works in the Laboratory of Biotransformation at the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2006, she obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at the Faculty of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, and she spent her postdoctoral stay at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She habilitated at the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, in 2020. Her main research interests include mutagenesis of carbohydrate-active enzymes, chemo-enzymatic synthesis of glycostructures and glycoconjugates, and their application in the study of lectin-carbohydrate interactions, especially concerning galectins and their implication in biomedicine.