Halina Dobrzynski obtained a B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (Physiology) in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Bimoedical Sciences (Cellular Cardiology) in 2000. Both degrees were obtained from the University of Leeds, UK. For five years she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Leeds. In 2005 she moved to the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in Cardiac Biology. Since August 2011 she is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiac Biology.

Other posts held:

2008-2012 Visiting Researcher, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

2005 Visiting Research Associate, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, USA

2005 Visiting Research Associate, Washington University, St. Louis, USA

2002 Visiting Research Associate, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

1996 Guest Ph.D. student, Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan

1995 Research Assistant, Department of Histopathology, Leeds General Infirmary, UK