Beata Grzeszczakowska-Pawlikowska studied German Philology at the University of Łódź (Poland), where she also received her Ph.D. She is a research assistant at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Łódź. In 2019, she completed her habilitation at the Department of Speech Science and Phonetics at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, where she has since been working as a private lecturer. Her research includes phonetic and rhetorical aspects of intercultural communication.