Karolina graduated from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Kosice in 2010, and subsequently received two years of further education in companion animal internal medicine at Strömsholm referral hospital in Sweden and the Royal Veterinary College in London, UK. Karolina completed a MSc in international animal health (infectious diseases) at the University of Edinburgh in 2018, and is currently doing a part-time industrial PhD in infectious diseases and evidence-based medicine at the same university. Her research mainly focuses on antimicrobial usage in companion animals and guideline methodology. Karolina is the clinical research director at IVC Evidensia Södra Djursjukuset in Sweden, and also works as a regional medicine consultant and antimicrobial stewardship representative for the same company in the Stockholm region. Karolina is the vice chair of the working group of clinical guidelines of antimicrobial use for the European Network Optimization Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment (ENOVAT) and is an external consultant in the development of antimicrobial veterinary guidelines for the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Asia and the Pacific.