Full Professor and Vice-Rector for Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The founder and Dean of Poland’s first Faculty of English Studies. She has published over 160 works in the fields of phonology, phonetics and language acquisition. In her research, she develops and promotes Natural Linguistics. Her books include A Theory of Second Language Acquisition within the Framework of Natural Phonology, Beats-and-Binding Phonology, and Phonotactics and morphonotactics of Polish and English. She has delivered approximately 120 presentations at international conferences and congresses. She edits Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics and organizes the Poznań Linguistic Meetings (PLM). She completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at University College London (1985-6). She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2001-2 (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) and a visiting lecturer at the University of Vienna (1991-4, 1998). Member of Academia Europaea, the Agder Academy, the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), and a foreign corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She belongs to 21 professional societies. In 2013-14, she served as president of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Director of the Bilingualism Matters @Poznań branch. She has supervised 22 doctoral dissertations. Recipient of the Prime Minister of Poland’s Award for an Outstanding Habilitation Thesis, the Minister’s Award, the Medal of National Education, the Gold Cross of Merit, and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.