Dorota Antos received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland, in 1998. The Ph.D. thesis was awarded by Polish Minister of Education.

She conducted research at Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1997, at Max-Planck-Institute in Magdeburg, Germany in 1999-2001 and in the frame of Fulbright Grant, at University of Virginia in 2006.

She habilitated in the field of chromatography and adsorption at Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet in Magdeburg, Germany in 2003. In 2012 she was nominated as a full professor.

Since 2014 she is a chair of Department of Chemical Engineering and Processing, Faculty of Chemistry, of Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow. Since 2016 she is a dean of Faculty of Chemistry.