Information on education, academic degrees/titles: 2020: doctor degree (PhD) in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Medical University of Lublin, Poland 2017: master's degree in Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland Research stays at home and abroad: 2024: internship at the Department of Materials Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, Poland, within 'Staż za miedzą' financed by the Union of Lublin Universities 2021: foreign scientific stay at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain 2019: foreign scientific stay at the Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy Prizes and awards: 2023: Scientific Award of Medical Faculty of the Polish Academy of Sciences for monothematic series of publications entitled Innovative biopolymer-based dressings for the treatment of hard to heal wounds 2023: Gold Medal for the development of hydrogel wound dressing awarded by the Jury during International Warsaw Invention Show, Poland 2022: 36-month Scholarship of Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland for outstanding young scientists 2021: Award of the Prime Minister for an outstanding doctoral dissertation defended in 2020 2021: Scholarship "START" from the Foundation for Polish Science in 2021 for the most talented young scientists 2021: Gold Medal for the development of hydrocolloid wound dressing awarded during Innovation Week IWA 2021, Morocco