Prof.; since 1960 an employee of the Institute of Ecology of the Polish Academy of Sciences; researcher of rodent populations, including especially bank vole Myodes glareolus; from 1975 to the liquidation of the Institute of Ecology led the team to study the population of bank vole on Wild Appletree Island; her research is unique in the world, almost a 40-year record on population dynamics; ce currently works at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University.