Main areas of research: Plant Genome Evolution: polyploidy, repetitive DNA evolution in plant genomes, chromosomal rearrangements and their contribution to speciation, genome size evolution

Additional interests: Next Generation Sequencing techniques and their application in analyses of repeatomes, novel approaches to study plant chromosomes

Education:

1995 - MSc “Vascular system development in styles and siliquas of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.” (Silesian University, Poland).

09.1999 - PhD ”Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.”  (Silesian University, Poland; with distinction).

11.2007 - Habilitation (venia docendi) University of Vienna, Austria

Professional positions:

1997–1999 - University assistant (and PhD student), Faculty of Biology, Silesian University, Poland

12.1998–01.2004 - Post-doctoral positions (FWF), Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Austria

02.2004–02.2005 - Maternity leave

03.2005–02.2008 - Hertha-Firnberg postdoc fellowship (FWF T218); Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna

01.03.08–05.2008 - Guest Professorship, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University Vienna

06.2008–11.2008 - postdoc (FWF), Department of Biogeography, University of Vienna

11.2008–01.2009 - Guest Professorship, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University Vienna

02.2009–05.2009 - unemployed

05.2009–07.2009 - postdoc (FWF), Department of Biogeography, University of Vienna, Austria

07.2009–01.2015 - assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna, Austria

04.2011–02.2012 - maternity leave

02.2015-02.2022 - associate Professor (tenure-track), Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria

from 01.03.2022 - University Professor (§ 99/4) for Plant Cytogenetics, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria

Hertha-Firnberg Fellowship 2005-2008 (FWF)

Subject Editor for Nordic Journal of Botany (2012-on)

Editorial Board Member for Acta Biologica Cracoviensia (2012-on)

Associate Editor for Plant Systematics and Evolution (07.2014-on)

Associate Editor for Cytogenetic and Genome Research (12.2014-on)

Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science (12.2018-on)

Reviewer for more than 30 journals and six grant agencies

Co-organizer of symposium "Plant Sytematics and Evolution" (November 2012)

Organizer of symposium "Plant Genome Evolution" (November 2010)