Prof. Dr. Magdalena Wdowin is employed at Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, where she has been the head of the Division of Applied Geochemistry and Environmental Engineering since 2007. Since 2021, she has also been the deputy director of the Institute for Scientific Affairs. Since 2024, she is acting director of the institute. For years, he has been dealing with the subject of waste management in the energy sector, developing, e.g., sorbents both for cleaning flue gas from CO2 and Hg as well as for hydrogen storage. In this area, she was the manager of the award-winning LIDER project entitled "The use of energy waste raw materials to capture gaseous forms of mercury from flue gases". In the field of CO2 capture and hydrogen storage, she also coordinates and manages international projects, working with units such as the University of Nottingham, Great Britain, or the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa. She has also cooperated with the IEA CCC but also with scientific units from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, and others.