**Magdalena Gaj ˛ecka**

DVM—Professor of Veterinary Sciences at the Department of Veterinary Prevention and Feed Hygiene, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland (including a 10th semester at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Complutense University in Madrid, Spain) and received a Master of Science degree in Veterinary Medicine in 2001. In 2002, she completed postgraduate studies in analytics in environmental protection at the Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru ´n. In June 2005, she completed postgraduate specialization studies in veterinary prevention and feed hygiene at the Polish National Veterinary Chamber. In 2006, awarded a doctoral degree in Veterinary Sciences at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, after successfully defending a doctoral dissertation entitled "The Effect of Experimental Zearalenone Mycotoxicosis on the Female Canine Reproductive Tract". In 2014, she was awarded a postdoctoral degree in Veterinary Sciences at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, after publishing a monothematic series of publications regarded as an outstanding research achievement, entitled "The Effect of Short-Term Zearalenone Mycotoxicosis on Changes in Selected Tissues of Female Dogs". In 2019, she was awarded the academic title of Professor of Veterinary Sciences. Professor Gajecka's research interests focus on feed hygiene, with a particular emphasis on animal waste management, the applicability of natural feed additives and feed materials, distribution and disposal of medicated feeds, safety and quality of animal feedstuffs, mycotoxicosis—implications for animal and human health, zearalenone mycotoxicosis: plants–animals–humans, diagnostic significance of selected Fusarium mycotoxicoses, zearalenone as a destructor of endocrine homeostasis of steroid hormones in female patients.
