Zofia is an experimental molecular biologist. She finished her undergraduate studies and did her PhD at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She did her long postdoc as Alexnander von Humboldt fellow at Wuerzburg University with Prof. Hans Gross and Prof. Hildgurg Beier in the field of pre-tRNA processing. Then she did her short postdoc as EMBO fellow at CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette with Prof. Henri Grosjean working on tRNA modifications. She did habilitation and obtained full professor title. Her main focus is microRNA biogenesis and function in plants. Member of Academia Europea and EMBO. Corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.