Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data

Tomasz Sulej
born 6 August 1974 in Warsaw, Poland
married, three children


Academic degrees

• 1998 Master of Science in ecology at Warsaw University (fossil amphibians)
• 2006 Doctoral degree at Instytut Paleobiologii PAN (osteology and evolution of temnospondyl metoposaur)

Fellowships and awards

• 2008 award Travelery 2008 „Discovery of the year” (with prof. Jerzy Dzik and Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki)
• 2008 President of the PAS Award (with prof. Jerzy Dzik and Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki)
• 2005 One-year fellowship granted by Foundation for Polish Science (FNP).
• 2002 Conference grant of Foundation for Polish Science (FNP).

Research grants and scientific expeditions

• 2011-2013 leader of the grant of Ministry of Science and Higher Education on Perm and Triassic of Poland, Russia, and Tunisia
  
• 2008 leader of expedition to Late Permian and Early Triassic localities in Russia
• 2008 comparative study of the collection the Late Triassic vertebrates in Geological Museum in Calcutta, India.
• 2007–2009 research grant of Ministry of Science and Informatisation on evolution of herbivory in archosaurs.
• 2007 comparative study of the collection the Late Triassic vertebrates in University of Tubingen.
• 2007 comparative study of the collection the Late Triassic vertebrates in Staatliches Museum Für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Germany.
• 2007 comparative study of the collection the Late Triassic vertebrates in Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom.
• 2006 expedition to Late Jurassic locality in Karatau Mountains in Kazakhstan.
• 2006 Paleontological excavations in Karatau Mountains in Kazachstan contractor in grant of Polish Science Foundation (Subin)
• 2000–2003 participation in research grant of Prof. M. Borsuk-Białynicka, from the Polish Committee of Scientific Research on origin and evolution of Archosauriformes based on polish material.
• 2000-2002 participation in research grant of Prof. Jerzy Dzik on the Late Triassic terrestrial fauna from Krasiejów, Poland.
• 2002 comparative study on the collection of the Late Triassic vertebrates in Geological Museum in Calcutta, India.
• 2000 comparative study on the collection of temnospondyl amphibians of Paleontological Institute in Moscow, Russia.
• 1999 cooperation with Paleontological Museum in Oslo, Norway in cleaning the skull of large theropod dinosaur
• 1998 comparative study on the collection of temnospondyl amphibians of Staatliches Museum Für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, Germany.

Participation in scientific meetings

• 2001 International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology. (poster)
• 2002 8th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems Cape Town (lecture).
• 2007 Meeting of Palaeoherpetologits (Palherp), Stuttgart, Germany.
• 2008 International Conference On Geology Indian Scenario and Global Context Geological Studies Unit, Calcutta, India (lecture).
• 2008 9th Paleontological Conference, Warsaw (lecture).
• 2009 69th Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bristol, United Kingdom (lecture).

Research interests

• Evolution of thecodonts and temnospondyls
• Paleontology of the Triassic

Publications

Original papers

Dzik, J., Sulej, T., Kaim, A., Niedźwiedzki, R. 2000. Późnotriasowe cmentarzysko kręgowców lądowych w Krasiejowie na Śląsku Opolskim. Przegląd Geologiczny, 48: 226–235.

Sulej, T. 2002. Species discrimination of the Late Triassic labyrinthodont Metoposaurus diagnosticus. –Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47: 535–546. [Full text - PDF]

Sulej, T. and Majer, D. (2005) The temnospondyl amphibian Cyclotosaurus from the Late Triassic of Poland. Palaeontology, 48: 157–170 [Full text - PDF]

Sulej, T. (2005) A new rauisuchian reptile (Diapsida: Archosauria) from the Late Triassic of Poland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25: 78–86. [Full text - PDF]

Dzik, J. and Sulej, T. 2007. A review of the early Late Triassic Krasiejów biota from Silesia, Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 64, 3-27. [Full text - PDF (low resolution)]

Sulej, T. 2007. Osteology, variability, and evolution of Metoposaurus, a temnospondyl from the Late Triassic of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 64, 29–139. [Full text - PDF (low resolution)]

Dzik, J., Sulej, T., and Niedźwiedzki, G. 2008 A dicynodont−theropod association in the latest Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 (4): 733–738. [Full text - PDF]

Brusatte, S.L., Butler, R.J., Sulej, T. and Niedźwiedzki, G. 2009. The taxonomy and anatomy of rauisuchian archosaurs from the Late Triassic of Germany and Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (2): 221–230. [Full text - PDF]

Shishkin, M.A. and Sulej, T. 2009. Temnospondyl amphibians of the Czatkowice tetrapod assemblage. Palaeontologia Polonica 65, 31–77.

Sulej, T. 2010. The skull of an early Late Triassic aetosaur and the evolution of the stagonolepidid archosaurian reptiles. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158, 860–881.

Dzik J., Sulej T., Niedźwiedzki G. 2010. Possible link connecting reptilian scales with avian feathers from the early Late Jurassic of Kazakstan. Historical Biology, 22, 394-402.

Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. & Sulej, T. 2010 Bone histology of Silesaurus opolensis Dzik, 2003 from the Late Triassic of Poland. Lethaia 43, 137–148.

Niedźwiedzki, G., Gorzelak, P., Sulej, T. (2011) Bite traces on dicynodont bones and the early evolution of large terrestrial predators. Lethaia 44, 87–92.

Tałanda, M., Dzięcioł, S., Sulej, T., Niedźwiedzki, G (2011) Vertebrate burrow system from the Upper Triassic of Poland. Palaios 26, 99-105.

Sulej, T., Bronowicz, R., Tałanda, M. and Niedźwiedzki, G. (2011) A new dicynodont-archosaur assemblage from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Poland. Earth & Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101, 261-269.

Sulej T., Niedźwiedzki G., Niedźwiedzki R., Surmik D., Stachacz M. 2011. Nowy zespół kręgowców z marginalno-morskich i lądowych osadów dolnego kajpru (ladyn, środkowy trias) z Miedar na Śląsku. Przegląd Geologiczny 59, 426-430.

Sulej, T., and Niedźwiedzki, G. (in press) A new large capitosaur temnospondyl amphibian from the Early Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Niedźwiedzki, G., Sulej, T., and Dzik, J., (in press) A large predatory archosaur from the Late Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Book review

Sulej, T. 2002. Cornucopia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47, 318.

Articles and books for the general public

Sulej, T. 2004. Krasiejów. Sensationelle Entdeckungen von triassischen Ur-Dinosauriern. 96 pp. Przygoda Studio, Opole 2004. tłum. Grzegorz Jureczko

Sulej, T. 2004. Krasiejów. The remarkable discovery of Triassic pre-dinosaurs. 96 pp. Przygoda Studio, Opole 2004. tłum. Michał Brodacki & Anna Kondarewicz

Sulej, T. 2006. Two new predators from the Late Triassic of Krasiejów. Annual report 2006, Polish Academy of Sciences, 40-42.

Contact

Tomasz Sulej
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: sulej@twarda.pan.pl
phone: (+48 22) 6978-869; room 632