Jerzy Żuchowski earned, from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland, a M.Sc. in Biotechnology (1996) and a PhD in Biological Sciences (2005). From 1996 to 2001, he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Lublin. Since 2006, he has been employed at the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation – State Research Institute in Puławy, Poland. He is now an assistant professor in the Department of Phytochemistry (previously Dept. of Biochemistry and Crop Quality). His work in phytochemistry has resulted in 52 publications; he is a member of the Polish Biochemical Society. His research interests include natural plant products (mainly phenolics and saponins), their isolation and identification, LC-MS analyses of plant extracts, etc.