A professor at the University of Gdańsk, political scientist, Vice-Rector for Cooperation and Development of the University of Gdańsk, 2021-2022 Director of the UG Centre for Sustainable Development.

Manager, coordinator and executor of research and development projects including the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Centre for Research and Development, Horizon 2020, Interreg South Baltic, the Jean Monnet Programme, the European Social Fund – Human Capital Operational Programme, the Europe for Citizens Programme, the Youth in Action Programme, Rozwój Polskich Uczelni (the Development of Polish Universities), the Scholarship and Training Fund, and Visegrad Grants.

Expert evaluating projects in programmes: Horizon 2020, the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, RPO. Reviewer for several scientific journals. Expert of the Polish Ecological Club. Member of Team Europe Poland, scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, NAWA. Member of the PLATENSO research network. Member of working groups social education, human resources development and education system in the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

Her research interests focus on:

Social and political conditions for the development of energy technologies, development strategy, lobbying, and civic participation