Beata Hukowska-Szematowicz is currently a Professor at the Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland. Currently Head of the Infectious and Molecular Biology and Immunology Team. Member of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Center, University of Szczecin. She received a Master's degree from the University of Szczecin in 2000. In 2003, she worked at Beckman Coulter UK. In 2015, she worked at the State Research Control Institute of Veterinary Medicinal Products and Feed Additives. She was awarded a Bronze Medal for Long Service awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland in 2012. In 2015, she won the Ludwik Hirszfeld Medal of the Polish Society for Experimental and Clinical Immunology. Author of numerous publications (ORCID, Research Gate) in the field of infectious immunology, microbiology, virology, molecular biology (dPCR, ddPCR). Currently, searching for molecular biomarkers (at the mRNA, microRNA level) of biological processes (inflammation, apoptosis, oxidative stress).