Prof. Elżbieta Żądzińska holds the position of Rector of the University of Lodz. She is a professor of biological sciences. Her main research interests include: biology of modern and historical human populations, determinants of population stress (secondary sex ratio, fluctuating asymmetry, disorders of weight and height proportions), and odontology. She is a Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Organismal Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Commission on Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Commission on Science of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland. Since 2014 she has been an honorary visiting researcher at the University of Adelaide, Australia.