Gabriela Olędzka, Ph.D., is an associate professor and Head of the Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw. Her main areas of interest are the prevention of bacteria- and parasite-associated infections, including biomaterials and biofilm community aspects. Her research involves models in which she examines how different bacteria work together to form biofilms and interact with the host and behave in the environment. She is interested in the environmental lifestyle of pathogenic bacteria and parasites and their evolvability. She is the principal researcher and grant holder of six large national research groups. She is the author and co-author of more than 50 papers in reputed journals in the microbiology, parasitology, and medical biology fields. As a teacher, she conducts laboratory classes, practical classes, seminars, and lectures in parasitology, parasitological diagnostics, clinical outline of diseases, microbiology, genetics, epidemiology, and medical parasitology.