Professor Małgorzata Barańska is a graduate (1992) and doctor of the Jagiellonian University (1999), where she also obtained her habilitation (2007) and the title of full professor (2013). Since 1998, she has been employed at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University, where she is the Head of Raman Imaging Group.  She is the Head of the Department of Chemical Physics. She also conducts research at the Jagiellonian Centre for Experimental Therapeutics (JCET), in the creation and development of which she has been involved since 2009. Professor Baranska heads one of three research groups there, the Raman Spectroscopy Group.

The current direction of my research is related to lifestyle diseases, their development and methods of treatment, as well as the mechanism of action of drugs. Vibrational spectroscopy, including nonlinear optical techniques of Raman imaging (SRS, CARS), combined with AFM, SNOM, fluorescence microscopy and biochemical tests, are used to track biochemical changes in cells and tissues. Moreover, she studies the optical activity of biologically important compounds using chiraloptic techniques (ROA, ECD), including the mechanism of Raman signal amplification.