Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail m.michalska[at]twarda.pan.pl
phone: (+4822) 697-88-87; room: 147

Personal data

Monika Michalska
Born in 2000, Radom, Poland

Academic degrees

• 2024 Recruitment to the BioPlanet doctoral school, Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Supervisor: Błażej Błażejowski, Ph.D., D.Sc.
• 2022-2024 Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Poland, Specialisation: Stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology, Master's studies (fossil insects). Studies completed with honours degree
• 2019-2022 Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Poland, field of study: Prospecting geology, Bachelor studies (fossil echinoids)

Memberships

• 2025 Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference ,,Fossil Insects – Bridging
  Past and Present’’. Natural History Museum, Institute of Systematic and Evolution of
  Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland, 22.05.25-25.05.25
• 2024 Member of the Organizing Committee of the conference ,,Młodzi w paleontologii
  XII’’, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Warsaw, Poland, 13-14.04.2024
• 2023-2024 Member of the Scientific Circle of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology
  UW

Participation in scientific meetings

• 2025 ,,Fossil Insects – Bridging Past and Present’’, Kraków (2 posters)
• 2025 ,,Młodzi w Paleontologii XIII’’, Kraków (oral presentation)
• 2024 ,,Młodzi w Paleontologii XII’’, Warsaw (oral presentation)
• 2023 ,,Jurassica XV’’, Iłża (poster)

Field experience

• 2024 Jurassic Coast, Dorset, United Kingdom (Jurassic and Cretaceous)
• Since 2022 Owadów-Brzezinki, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland (Jurassic)
• Since 2020 Siljansringen, Sweden (Ordovician)

Science outreach and communication activities

• 2025 Science Picnic of Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre named after
  Prof. Łukasz Turski – booth of the Institute of Paleobiology, PAS. PGE Narodowy,
  Warsaw
• 2025 Earth Day – booth of the PAS Museum of the Earth. Geological Museum (PIG–
  PIB), Warsaw
• 2024 Science Picnic – booth of the Scientific Circle of Evolutionary Biology. PAS
  Museum of the Earth, Warsaw
• 2024 Open Days of the Ochota Campus – booth of the Koło Naukowe Paleobiologów
  Terenowych. Faculty of Physics, Warsaw

Other

• 2025 Recruitment to the Museum of the Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
  Position: Museum Assistant, Amber Department (insect inclusions)
• 2024 Scientific consultations and fossil insect collection work at the Natural History
  Museum, London

Scientific papers

Michalska, M., Weryński, Ł., & Błażejowski, B. Podoba mi się ten głaz, to naprawdę ładny głaz – czyli o nowych skamieniałościach z Owadowa-Brzezinek. Prz. Geol., 73: 590–595; doi: 10.7306/2025.64. [text]

Błażejowski B., Weryński Ł., Wierzbowski A., Michalska M., Hryniewicz K., Uchman A., Kugler S., Bącal P., Hołda-Michalska A. (2023). Summary of a decade of research at the Owadów–Brzezinki Lagerstätte (Tithonian, central Poland): A review and perspectives for the future. Volumina Jurassica, 21, 83–98. DOI: 10.7306/VJ.21.5 [text]