Katarzyna Świderek studied Chemistry and obtained her Master (2007) and PhD (2011) degrees in Physical Chemistry at the Lodz University of Technology (Poland), under the supervision of Prof. P. Paneth. During 2007 she was working in a crystallographic laboratory in the Institute of Technical Biochemistry at same University and in 2008 she stayed 3 months in the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ in Leipzig (Germany) funded by an AXIOM - Marie Curie Host Fellowship. In 2011, she moved to the University of Valencia (Spain) for her first postdoctoral stay under the supervision of Professor I. Tuñón, until the end of 2014. In 2015 she obtained a 3-year contract in an NIH project (National Institute of Health, USA) as a postdoctoral researcher at University Jaume I (UJI, Spain) under the supervision of Professors V. Moliner (UJI) and A. Kohen (University of Iowa, USA). At the same time, she became the principal investigator (PI) of an “Iuventus Plus” project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education dedicated to talented young researchers (under 35). In 2017 she spent 6 months in the laboratory of Professor I. H. Williams at the University of Bath (UK). In 2018 she obtained a two years Juan de la Cierva-Incorporation contract from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness that allowed her to be involved in the projects conducted in the BioComp group at Universitat Jaume I. In 2020, she obtained a 3-years contract as a PI in a JIN project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities at the same University, and her research is funded by the SEJI 2020 (Scientific Excellence Junior Researchers Grants) program of Valencian Regional Government and a project founded by UJI, in which she is also PI. Recently, she was contracted as Ramon y Cajal fellow at UJI.