Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), specialisation: International
Trade and Political Affairs. From year 2001 to 2004 she was a PhD candidate at Research Team to Baltic Countries Economies, at Faculty of World Economy of SGH, Warsaw.

In 2003, she finished her PhD studies at World Economy Faculty of SGH. Her main scientific and research interests include: factors and measures of international competitiveness of countries and regions; knowledge-based economy;
industry clusters; regional R&D and innovation policies.

Since 2004 she has been working as Assistant Professor in Kozminski
University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center of European Studies of Harvard University (twice) and at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at Berkeley University of California. She completed internships at the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations in Brussels and the United Nations (UNDP) Offices in Warsaw and Vilnius. From September 2014 she is Visiting
Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

In November, 2014 she received the degree of ‘doktor habilitowany’ (habilitation) in economics.

She is an author of 5 monographs and over 38 scientific publications,
a coordinator and co-author of six European Commission funded projects in the area of the "new economy"; innovations, eServices and competitiveness of regions and states.