Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), specialisation: International Trade and Polititian Affairs. From year 2001 to 2004 she was a PhD candidate at Research Team to Baltic Countries Economies, at Faculty of World Economy of SGH, Warsaw. In 2003, she finished her PhD studies at World Economy Faculty of SGH.

Main scientific and research interests include: regional integration; factors and measures of international competitiveness of countries and regions; impact of EU enlargement on competitiveness of the North-West CIS regions; regional trade-investment relations; technology transfer, national and regional R&D and innovation policies.

From 2001 she co-operates with Baltic States Study Centre in Warsaw School of Economics, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy at Riga, Stockholm School of Economics and Aleksanteri Institute at University of Helsinki. She conducted her research studies in the EU institutions and at UNDP programs in Brussels, Warsaw and Vilnius. She is an author of  publications, 6 research works and and took part in annualy workshops for "Innovation in a post-socialist countries" hosted by the NATO. She is speaking five languages: English, Lithuanian, French, Russian and Spanish.