Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Since 2021 – PhD student in the Bioplanet Doctoral School. Scientific Advisor: dr hab. Tomasz Sulej, prof. IP PAN
• 2021 – MSc in Biology (with individual study programme), University of Warsaw.
  Thesis: Modularity of the neck in Tanystropheidae revealed by geometric morphometrics (supervisors: dr Mateusz Tałanda, prof. Christine Böhmer – University of Kiel, PhD Stephan Spiekman – Natural History Museum in London)
• 2020 – BSc in Geology (with individual study programme), University of Gdańsk. Two semesters spent at the University of Warsaw as an exchange student.
  Thesis: Controversies concerning the mode of life of Tanystropheus in the light of the new paleontological site in Miedary (supervisor: dr Mateusz Tałanda, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
• 2019 –BSc in Geography (with individual study programme), University of Gdańsk.
  Thesis: Geomorphological conditioning of the spatial extent of the recent storm sediments in the Pobrzeże Gdańskie area (supervisor: dr Damian Moskalewicz)

• 2025-2028 – 2024/53/N/ST10/02463 "The dawn of the Triassic aquatic reptiles in the light of discoveries from the Lower Muschelkalk" – Principal Investigator
• 2021-2025 – 2020/39/O/NZ8/02301 “Solving the mystery of the mode of life of a long-necked Triassic reptile Tanystropheus” – PhD student
• 2021 – 2017/27/B/NZ8/01543 “The end of the mammal-like reptile era in Europe” – preparation technician

• Since 2022 – Member of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology
• Since 2021 – Member of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
• 2019-2021 – Secretary of the Students’ Scientific Circle of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw
• 2017-2019 – Member, and later Chairman, of the Students’ Scientific Circle of GIS “GISoteka”, University of Gdańsk
• 2017-2019 – Vice-chairman of the Students’ Scientific Circle of Geologists, University of Gdańsk
• 2017-2019 – Vice-chairman of the Students’ Scientific Circle of Geographers, University of Gdańsk
• Since 2017 – co-organiser of the Polish Geography Olympiad - member of a Regional Committee in Gdańsk, juror of the regional and central competitions, as well as the qualifying competitions for the International Geography Olympiad

• Since 2020 – Participation and co-organisation of excavations in the Late Triassic sites in The Holy Cross Mountains
• Since 2020 – Participation and co-organisation of excavations in the Late Triassic Kocury site
• Since 2018 – Participation and co-organisation of excavations in the Middle Triassic Miedary site
• 2017 – Participation in excavations in the Late Triassic Lisowice site

• 2024 – IV Polish Geological Congress, oral presentation “The massive accumulation of vertebrate remains from the lowermost Keuper (Middle Triassic) of Miedary, Upper Silesia - a unique snapshot of the Muschelkalk Sea regression”
• 2024 – 21th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, oral presentation “Extensive internal modifications of cervical vertebrae in Triassic long-necked archosauromorphs”
• 2024 – Joint Meeting of the Polish Paleobiologists, and the 95th Annual Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes), oral presentation “Triassic Ouroboros—the history of Tanystropheus comes full circle”. Awarded the Young Scientist Award (1st place)
  
• 2023 – 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, poster “Unique Internal Anatomy Of Cervical Vertebrae Discovered In Triassic Archosauromorphs From Central Europe”
• 2023 - The 4^th International Symposium on Triassic and later Marine Vertebrate Faunas, oral presentation “Surprising abundance of Tanystropheus remains in the new Ladinian site from Poland”
• 2023 - 20^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, poster “Tanystropheus hotspot in a new Middle Triassic vertebrate assemblage from southern Poland”
• 2022 - 19^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, oral presentation “The Large, the Small and the Unusual – a New, Multispecific Tanystropheid Assemblage From Southern Poland”
• 2021 - 18^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, poster “Modularity of the neck in Tanystropheidae – insight from Geometric Morphometrics”
• 2021 – Triassic Vertebrate Paleontology Meetup, oral presentation “New finds of a gigantic Tanystropheus from southern Poland”
• 2021 – 5^th International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Palaeontology, oral presentation “Environmental, spatial and temporal distribution of Tanystropheus (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha)”

In Poland:

• Nature Education Centre of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1 day
• Institute of Biology of the University of Opole, Opole, 1 day
• Institute of Earth Sciences of the Silesian University, Sosnowiec, 1 day
• Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 2 days
• Geological Museum of the University of Warsaw, Warszawa, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the Institute of Geological Sciences PAS, Kraków, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the AGH University of Krakow, Kraków, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, 2 days
• Museum of the Earth PAS, Warszawa, 1 day
• Department of Paleozoology of the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, 1 day
  
  
Outside of Poland:

• Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Dresden, 1 day
• Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, 1 day
• Naturkunde Museum Leipzig, Leipzig, 1 day
• Geologisch-Paläontologische Sammlung der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, 1 day
• Geowissenschaftliches Museum der Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, 1 day
• Geologische Sammlungen der Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, 1 day
• Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Berlin, 2 days
• Friulian Museum of Natural History Udine, Udine, 2 days
• Institute of Geosciences, Jena, 1 day
• Jena Phyletisches Museum, Jena, 1 day
• Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels, Hamburg, 1 day
• Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), 1 day
• Muschelkalk Museum Ingelfingen, Ingelfingen, 2 days
• Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale Lugano, Lugano, 1 day
• Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, 3 days
• Museum der Natur Gotha, Gotha, 1 day
• Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin, 2 days
• Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, Magdeburg, 1 day
• Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg Schleusingen, Schleusingen, 1 day
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, 2 days
• Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, Erfurt, 1 day
• Naturmuseum Winterthur, Winterhur, 1 day
• Paleontological Collection of the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 2 days
• Paleontological Institute and Museum Zurich, Zurich, 6 months
• Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main), 1 day
• Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 5 days
• State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1 day
• The Palaeontological Museum Munich, Munich, 1 day
• Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken Bayreuth, Bayreuth, 2 days

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