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

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]