Magdalena Broda is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Wood Science and Thermal Techniques, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences. She graduated from the Department of Biology, University of Wroclaw in 1997 and received an MS in Biotechnology at the Department of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in 1999. She received a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences in the field of Biochemistry at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2005 and completed a Postgraduate Course at Warsaw University of Technology from 2007 to 2008 and a Postgraduate Course at Poznan University of Technology from 2011 to 2012. She won the Fulbright Senior Award 2020/21 at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Her research interests focus on the characterization and conservation of waterlogged archaeological wood, developing new methods for historical wood conservation, application of organosilicon compounds in wood conservation and preservation, studying structure-function relationships of wood, wood decay, as well as all the issues related to biodegradation in general.