Maria Górna serves on the current Board of Marie Curie Alumni Association. Maria obtained her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge, after which she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Centre for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2015, she returned to her homeland Poland and founded her own research group in structural biology at the University of Warsaw. Maria’s research interest is in using three-dimensional models of proteins to explain or design protein function, with implications for drug discovery and health diagnostics.