Anna Wierzbicka-Wos earned her PhD in Biology Science from the University of Szczecin in 2011. She served as an assistant professor at the Biology Institute of the University of Szczecin from 2011 to 2021. In 2020, she joined the Sanprobi Research and Development Centre, and in 2021, she was promoted to the position of head of R&D and Scientific Laboratory. During her PhD studies, she completed a research internship as a visiting PhD student at the Chemistry Institute of the Gdansk University of Technology from 2007 to 2011, and as a visiting postdoc at the Environmental Research Institute of the University College Cork in 2013 and 2014. Her research focuses on microbial biotechnology, industrial microbiology, microbiomes, environmental microbiology, metagenomics, and molecular biology. You can find her ORCID at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8416-5077.