Ewa Kowalska has been a professor of Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Chemistry since 2022. She received her PhD degree in chemical technology (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) in 2004. After completing JSPS (2005-2007), GCOE (2007-2009) postdoctoral fellowships in Japan, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowships in France (2002-2003) and Germany (2009-2012), she worked at the Institute for Catalysis (ICAT), Hokkaido University, as an associate professor from 2012 to 2023. She has published ca. 120 peer-reviewed papers and 15 book chapters, and delivered 40 invited talks (including 6 plenary/key-note lectures). Her research interests focus on environmental protection, AOPs, noble metals, solar energy conversion, plasmonic photocatalysis, photonic crystals, nanoarchitecture design and other vis-responsive materials for degradation of chemical and microbiological pollutants. She is the editor of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, deputy editor-in-chief of Micro & Nano Letters, editor-in chief of EWA Cat. Res., section associate editor of Catalysts, topic editor in MDPI, and member of the editorial board of various journals, including Catalysts, Micro, Photochem, Photocatalysis: Research and Potential, etc.