Department of Environmental Paleobiology

 

Head of the Department:

Andrzej PISERA, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Fossil and Recent sponges, especially lithistids; Biosilicification; Mesozoic crinoids; Fossil and Recent coralline red algae

Andrzej BALIŃSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods

Błażej BŁAŻEJOWSKI, Ph.D.
Systematics, evolution, and biostratigraphy of Paleozoic foraminifera

Łucja FOSTOWICZ-FRELIK, Ph.D.
Phylogeny and evolution of Glires (Mammalia)

Andrzej GAŹDZICKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Triassic and Tertiary microfossils: biostratigraphy, ecology, biogeography, Tethys Realm, Antarctica

Adam T. HALAMSKI, Ph.D.
Cretaceous leaf floras; Devonian brachiopods; Contemporary flora (Ranunculaceae and Orobanchaceae); Collections Curator

Andrzej KAIM, Ph.D.
Early ontogeny and phylogeny of Mesozoic gastropods; Paleoecology of Mesozoic fossil assemblages; Trends in body-size evolution

Marcin MACHALSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Late Cretaceous ammonites; K-Pg biotic and abiotic events; Taphonomy of mid-Cretaceous marine vertebrates

Wojciech MAJEWSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Antarctic foraminifera, Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions, mid-Miocene climate change. Formerly: Middle Jurassic ammonites.

Danuta PERYT, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Permian, Cretaceous, and Miocene foraminifera, Miocene calcareous nannoplankton

 

Ph.D. students:

Krystian KONIECZYŃSKI, M.Sc.
Upper Jurassic crinoids form Poland

Magdalena ŁUKOWIAK, M.Sc.
Demosponges and siliceous biomineralization; Mesozoic crinoids; Fossil ascidia and their taxonomy

Marlena ŚWIŁO, M.Sc.
Evolutionary changes of faunal assemblages during ice ages 

Aneta MAJDA, M.Sc.
Present and historical migrations benthic foraminifers

Ph.D. graduates:

Zofia DUBICKA, Ph.D.
Cretaceous foraminifera: stratigraphy, paleoecology

Grzegorz SADLOK , M.Sc.
Upper Cambrian trace fossils

Retired staff:

Janina SZCZECHURA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor emeritus
Ostracodes, foraminifers and bolboforms (calcareous phytoplankton) from the Miocene of Carpathian Foredeep and its paleoecologic and paleogeographic significance.

Ryszard WRONA, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Early Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy