Iwona Grabowska-Bold is a Full Professor of Physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków, Poland) and member of the ATLAS Collaboration. She has been working on many topics including trigger preparations, data quality for heavy-ion data, as well as data analysis with a focus on weak bosons, heavy quarks and ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC). Her present research activity focuses on understanding strong and electroweak interactions using inelastic and UPC heavy-ion data.