Personal details: born in Łódź, Poland, a Polish citizen and permanent resident. Office: Department of the Chemistry of Cosmetic Raw Materials, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Łódź, Muszyński Str.1, 90-151. Łódź. E-mail address: elzbieta.budzisz@umed.lodz.pl. Education: 1980, M.Sc. in organic chemistry; 1991, Ph.D. (with distinction) at the Medical University of Lodz, Poland; 2004, Habilitation (with distinction) at the Medical University of Łódź, Poland: “The search for novel antitumor compounds among derivatives of chromone and products of their transformations with nucleophilic agents complexed with platinum(II) and palladium(II) cations”. Career: teaching assistant at the Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy (from October 1st, 1991 to September 30th, 2004); Department of Bioorganic Chemistry (from 2004 to 2005); Head of Department, Cosmetic Raw Materials Chemistry (from 2005); full professor (from 2011); Vice-Dean of Cosmetology (from 2016). Publications: 134 full research papers (see included list). Presentations: 54 research presentations at national conferences. Research interests: new synthetic methods for obtaining biologically important compounds; the application of NMR spectroscopy to configurational and conformational problems; and the synthesis of metal ion complexes with potential antitumor activity.