Career
Her research is in abstract algebra. Smoktunowicz earned a master"s degree from the University of Warsaw in 1997, a Doctor of Philosophy in 1999 from the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a habilitation in 2007, again from the Polish Academy of Sciences. After temporary positions at Yale University and the University of California, San Diego, she joined the University of Edinburgh in 2005, and was promoted to professor there in 2007.