Ph.D. student, 2012-2017. Zofia Iskierko defended her Ph.D. thesis, entitled: "Chemical sensors with molecularly imprinted polymers as recognition units for determination of selected compounds of health importance" on 26 June 2017, and the Doctoral degree in the field of exact and natural sciences, in the discipline of chemical sciences, was conferred to her on 9 October 2017. In 2018-2019, she was on her leave at the University of Verona, Italy, as a post-doctoral research fellow within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, MSCA-IF-2016 - Individual Fellowships. Her employment in IPC PAS was terminated on 31 Dec 2021.