Prof. Beata Czarnecka, DDS, completed her PhD in dentistry in the use of glass-ionomer cements for Atraumatic Restorative Treatment. Her research interests include the investigation of properties of glass-ionomer cements and related dental materials, including their bond strength to tooth structures, clinical performance, their interaction with oral cavity environment and physicochemical properties of glasses. She was also involved in research which employed inverse gas chromatography for evaluation of surface energy of dentine and enamel before and after application of resin bonding systems. For the first ten years in her academic career, she was teaching clinical and preclinical restorative dentistry. In 2001, she joined the newly opened Department of Biomaterials and Experimental Dentistry and developed an undergraduate and postgraduate course on Dental Materials, which she is teaching until now. From 2007 to 2014 she was an Associate Dean for Dentistry, dealing with international students of a 5-year DDS course in the English language at PUMS. She has been working as a clinical dentist in her private practice for the last 25 years, and this experience is a base for her scientific activity.