First person – Dominika Agnieszka Rudzka

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Dominika Agnieszka Rudzka is first author on ‘Migration through physical constraints is enabled by MAPK-induced cell softening via actin cytoskeleton re-organization’, published in JCS. Dominika conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Professor Michael Olson's lab at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Glasgow, UK. She is now a Senior Scientific Officer in the lab of Dr Heather McKinnon at the same institute, investigating cancer cell invasion and migration, and related drug discovery and protein translation.