Department of Environmental Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data

Magdalena Łukowiak
Born March 5th, 1984 in Piekary Śląskie, Poland



Academic degrees

• 2006. Bachelor of Science in geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, (Freeliving crinoids from Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Poland)
• 2008. Master of Science in geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia, (Late Jurassic stalked crinoids from the Malogoszcz)
• 2008-present. Ph.D. student, Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Warsaw; Eocene Sponges (Demospongiae) from SW Australia; scientific supervisor Ph.D., D.Sc. Andrzej Pisera

Awards and fellowships

• 2007/2008. Scholarship awarded by Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education for outstanding results in study.
• 2009. Travel grant in 10th Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic
• 2010. Accepted as a participant of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Short Course in Taxonomy, Systematic and Ecology of Sponges, and awarded a fellowship in the form of a waiver for the cost of the course fee.

Scientific meetings

• 2008 9th Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists, Warsaw, Poland.
• 2009. 1st Conference of the young palaeontologists, Sosnowiec, Poland, (presentation).
• 2009. 10th Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic (presentation).
• 2010. 2nd Conference of the young palaeontologists, Warsaw, Poland, (presentation).
• 2010. VIII Word Sponge Conference, Girona, Spain (presentation and co-authorship of a poster).

Research Interests

• Demosponges and siliceous biomineralization
• Mesozoic crinoids
• Fossil ascidia and their taxonomy

Publications

Scientific papers (in peer-reviewed journals)

Łukowiak, M, and Gorzelak, P. 2006. Marsupites (Crinoidea, Uintacrinida) jako narzędzie datowania skał górnosantońskich w krach glacjalnych wschodniej Polski. Przegląd Geologiczny 54: 784 – 786.

Salamon, M.A., Gajerski, A., Gorzelak, P. and Łukowiak, M 2007. A new plicatocrinid crinoid, Tetracrinus jagti, from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern Poland. Neues Jahrbuch für Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 245 (2): 179 –183.

Gorzelak, P., Łukowiak, M, and Salamon, M.A. 2007. Nowe dane na temat skamieniałości cyrtokrynidów (Crinoidea, Cyrtocrinida) w osadach mezozoiku Polski pozakarpackiej. Przegląd Geologiczny 55: 222 – 223.

Borszcz, T., Gorzelak, P., Konieczyński, K., Łukowiak, M & Salamon, M.A. 2009. Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) crinoids from the southern Poland. Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies (17), Freiberger Forschungshefte C 532: 83 – 93; Freiberg.

Other

Gorzelak, P., and Łukowiak, M 2007. Cmentarzysko triasowych kręgowców sprzed 240 mln lat. Przyroda Górnego Śląska 48: 4.

Conference abstracts

Łukowiak, M. 2009. Morphology of sponge spicules and taxonomy of the Eocene sponges from SW Australia. 1st Conference of the young palaeontologists, Sosnowiec, Poland, March 16th, 2009, p. 23.

Łukowiak, M 2009. Eocene record of soft demosponges from southern Australia: preliminary report. 10th Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic, October 13-15th , 2009, p. 31.

Łukowiak, M 2010. The first occurrence of the Ascidians in Late Eocene of south-eastern Australia. 2nd Conference of the young palaeontologists, Warsaw, Poland, March 13th, 2010.

Łukowiak, M 2010. Sponge fauna from the Late Eocene of southern Australia - reconstruction based on loose spicules record. VIII World Sponge Conference 2010, Book of Abstracts, p. 83, Girona, Spain.

Pisera, A., Łukowiak, M 2010. Eocene representatives of Stoeba-like demosponges (Astrophorida, Pachastrellidae) from SW Australia and their evolutionary significance. VIII World Sponge Conference 2010, Book of Abstracts, p. 295, Girona, Spain.

Contact

Magdalena Łukowiak
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: mlukowiak@twarda.pan.pl
phone: (+4822) 697 8880; room 137