Assoc. Prof. Beata Zimowska is a Basic Science Research at Department of Plant Pathology, Subdepartment Phytopathology and Mycology,  Faculty of Horticulture and Land Scape, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland. She has published more than 63 research publications, 30 popular articles in Polish and foreign. She is a member of several scientific societies. She has been awarded several awards:  grade I team from HM Rector  the Academy of Agriculture in Lublin –2000, grade II team from HM Rector the University of Life Sciences in Lublin –2009, individual grade I from HM Rector the University of Life Sciences for scientific activity in the years 2010-2012 –2014, individual grade II from HM Rector the University of Life Sciences for scientific activity in the years 2014-2016 –2017. She was co-organizer and member of Scientific Board 1st Eurasian Mycological Congress 3-5.07.2016, Manisa, Turkey and XIII Congress of Ecology and Environment with International Participation 12-15.09.2017, Edirne, Turkey. She serves as a referee for 10 international journals and is a member of editorial board of 2 national and international journals. Since 2014 she cooperate with Bulgarian Institute of Genetics in Sofia, since 2015 with Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II, Portici and Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (IPSP)/ National Research Council (CNR)Portici, Italy, since 2015 with Department of Biology Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey and since 2017 with Department of Biotechnology, Amravati University, Maharashtra, India.

Her research activities are aimed at: - Phoma sensu lato group of fungi, endophytic fungi, fungal symbiont and their relationships with gall midges, mutualistic interactions between the gall causing species  of dipterans from Asphondylia genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and on fungi developing in the inner wall of galls, etiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of MAPs (medicinal and aromatic plants), with special regards of new and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs).