text: Barbara Grzybowska-Świerkosz (born 1937), is a Polish chemist. She graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1959, and received a PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh in 1963. After completing  a post-doctoral degree at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 1974, she researched and taught at that institution, where she has been a professor of chemical sciences since 1990. She has authored more than 140 publications, including articles, monographs and teaching documents. 
  Her scientific achievements have been recognized with multiple awards, and she has been a member or leader of professional groups including the Academy of Sciences of the Comecon Countries, the Coordinating Committee of Research on Catalysis of the Polish Academy of Sciences, EUROCAT-oxides, and the European Commission Action COST-15 "Interfacial Chemistry and Catalysis". She also served on the editorial boards of the journals Applied Catalysis (1991-1993) and the Polish Journal of Chemistry (1997-).