MAIN RESEARCH AREAS

• Geomicrobiological aspects of carbonate and siliceous sediments formation in ancient marine environments 

• Reconstruction of selected Phanerozoic and Precambrian paleoenvironments based on paleontological and sedimentological record

SCIENTIFIC STAFF

GRZEGORZ RACKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor, 
DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
Palaeozoology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of middle Palaeozoic (Devonian brachiopods and conodonts); event stratigraphy, in particular Devonian episodes of mass extinctions; Scientometry

Józef KAŹMIERCZAK, Ph. D., D.Sc., Professor, 
Fossil and recent cyanobacterial mats, biosedimentology, paleogeomicrobiology, calcareous algae, sclerosponges, biocalcification processes in space and time, astrobiology.

Barbara KREMER, Ph.D.
Cyanobacterial mats, black radiolarian cherts, taphonomy and paleobiology of acritarchs, paleogeomicrobiology, biosedymentology, nannoproblematica. 
http://www.paleo.pan.pl/people/Kremer/strona_glowna.html

Cyprian KULICKI, Ph.D.
Jurassic and Cretaceous Pterobranchia, Cephalopoda (Coleoidea, Ammonoidea)

Marcin MACHALSKI, Ph.D.
Taxonomy, paleoecology and taphonomy of Jurassic, Cretaceous and Paleocene oysters; latest Cretaceous ammonites and their paleobiologic and stratigraphic significance; sedimentology and stratigraphy of the K-T boundary; arthropod non-marine and marine trace fossils.