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She is a transport economist with a railway engineering and management background. She has been working at the Department of Transport at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) since 2001. Her research interests include a wide variety of aspects of railway transport as well as interdisciplinary issues: megatrends, digitalisation, network industries development (railways, energy, telecommunication), planning and funding transport infrastructure, transport policy, development of the TENs and freight corridors, reforming railways, the competition in railway market, use ICT and ITS in transport and logistics, smart cities, cross-border cooperation, Eastern markets. She has published more than 120 articles and book chapters, including the co-editing of the books titled „System transportowy Polski. 10 lat w Unii Europejskiej” (2015), “Megatrendy i ich wpływ na rozwój sektorów infrastrukturalnych” (2015), „Cross-border Cooperation in the Framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Eastern Partnership and Russia” (2014), “Benchmarking and Best Practices in Transport Sector” (2009), as well as a co-author of the research report “Effectiveness of national roads maintenance management in Poland” (2012) prepared within the Better Government E&Y Programme. She has participated in numerous research projects and led various market analyses as well as prepared expert analyses for both entrepreneurs and the Polish government. She is an independent expert of the European Commission (DG RTD, DG MOVE, INEA). She was a member of the Horizon 2020 Transport Advisory Group for the years 2013-2015. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Shift2Rail JU since March 2015. She is also a member of the Transport Economists' Group (TEG, UK) and the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP, USA).