She is trained in Ph.D in Physiology from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA and Stockholm University, Sweden. Dr. Sliwowska was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati, USA and British Columbia University, Canada. She served as reviewer for Scientific Journals of Brain Research, Cell Biology and Toxicology, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, Reproductive Biology and Pharmacological Reports. Her research interest are: obesity and diabetes, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, prenatal programming, neuroendocrinology of stress response and reproduction, sex differences in endocrine response and adult hippocampal neurogenesis.