Aleksandra (or as abbreviated in Polish: Ola) was born in Wagrowiec, Poland. During her BSc and MSc in Neuroinformatics, Physics Department, University of Warsaw, she discovered her passion for describing the living systems with the language of physics. During her BSc, she was working within on Brain Computer Interfaces using EEG signals, where she gained some experience in time series analysis and machine learning. During her MSc, she was working on the mathematical model of three-state synapse and an auto-associative network dynamics. After graduating, she visited University of Michigan, where she was investigating the resonant properties of neural network.

During her PhD, (European Joint Doctorate) in Lancaster University, UK and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, she developed her further interest in understanding the dynamics of the living systems. She worked on the dynamics of the membrane potential in living cells. This involved mainly the analysis of the free-running membrane recorded using the patch clamp technique, unravelling the mechanisms contributing to the membrane potential and its fluctuations, acquiring an expertise in the selected time series analysis methods.

She is currently with Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology group as a postdoctoral researcher, where she works on neurophysiological data from Calcium imaging experiments of spontaneous neuronal activity in C elegans. Her aim is to understand a locomotion pathway in C elegans.

When not at work, she will most certainly be outdoor: climbing in a crag, running some trails, ski touring in Pyrenees… or solving the puzzles