Jankowski graduated in Classics (Licence and Maitrise at the Université Paris-Sorbonne), in Chinese (Licence at the Institut National des Langues Orientales, Paris), in Antiquity (Magistère at the Ecole Normale Supérieure) and in Art History (Licence, Master and Doctorat at the Université Paris-Sorbonne).
[1] Her studies of the contacts between Imperial Rome and Han China sparked an interest in numismatics.
For her PhD, she explored the social networks of coin collectors in 19th century China.
[2] From 2014 to 2017 she was a fellow of Worcester College, University of Oxford, and Sackler Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, where she curated the East Asian and subsequently adjunct professor in the Department of East Asian languages and civilizations.
In 2019, she became Curator of extra-European arts at the Musée royal de Mariemont, Belgium.