Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: t.szczygielski@twarda.pan.pl, t.e.szczygielski@gmail.com
phone: (+48 22) 697-88-66, room: 129

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Personal data

Tomasz Sczygielski
Born in 1989, Warsaw, Poland


Academic degrees and memberships

• Since 2019 member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS
• 2018 Ph.D. in Earth sciences, in the discipline of geology; Early evolution of the turtle shell; Institute of Paleobiology PAS; scientific supervisor: Tomasz Sulej, Ph.D., D.Sc.
• 2014 – 2017 Ph.D. students’ representative in the Scientific Board of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS
• 2013 – 2017 Ph.D. student at the International Doctoral Studies Course in the Biological Sciences with the PAS in Warsaw; Institute of Paleobiology PAS; scientific supervisor Tomasz Sulej Ph.D, D.Sc.
• 2013 M.Sc. in biology; The genesis of turtles (Testudines) based on the new materials from the Triassic of Poland; Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences; scientific supervisor: Tomasz Sulej Ph.D, D.Sc.
• 2011 B.Sc. in biology; The genesis of turtles (Testudines) – the current state of knowledge; Faculty of Agriculture and Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences; scientific supervisor: Prof. Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Employment

• Since 2018 research assistant in the Institute of Paleobiology PAS in Warsaw
• 2018 – 2019 research-and-teaching assistant in the Department of Paleobiology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
• 2018 lab technician in the Institute of Paleobiology PAS in Warsaw

Research grants

• 2018 – 2021 Co-Investigator in the National Science Center, Poland, Opus grant „The end of the mammal-like reptile era in Europe” (Principal Investigator: Tomasz Sulej, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor of the Institute of Paleobiology, PAS)
• 2017 – 2020 Principal Investigator in the National Science Center, Poland, Preludium grant „Evolutionary roots of dermal ossifications in the shell of ancestral Late Triassic turtles”

Scientific meetings

• 17–20 X 2018 78th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, USA)
• 26–27 V 2018 6th Turtle Evolution Symposium (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
• 21–22 IV 2018 Young in Paleontology 9 (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
• 1–3 VIII 2017 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (Palaeontological Museum Munich, Munich, Germany)
• 2–4 VI 2017 Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
• 21–13 IX 2016 23rd Science Conference of Paleontological Section of PGS (Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
• 20–24 IV 2016 7th Student Conference of Evolutionary Biology (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
• 9 XII 2015 5th Popular Science Session “Silesian Dinosaurs (Not Only) from Krasiejów” (Institute of Geological Sciences PAS, Cracow, Poland)
• 20–23 VII 2015 5th Turtle Evolution Symposium (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• 17–18 VII 2015 Young in Paleontology 7 (Sławno, Poland)
• 8–12 VII 2015 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (Opole University, Opole, Poland)
• 9–11 V 2014 4th Student Conference of Evolutionary Biology (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
• 1–4 VI 2012 Symposium on Turtle Evolution 2012 (Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany)
• 2012 – 2016 „journal club” seminaries (Department of Paleobiology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland)
• 2010 – 2012 meetings of the Evolution Enthusiasts (Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
• 2010 – 2013 seminaries of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS (Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Warsaw, Poland)
• 7 IX 2010 4th Popular Science Session “Silesian Dinosaurs Not Only from Krasiejów” (Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Warsaw, Poland)

Research trips and internships

• X 2018 research visit in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
• 2018 leadership of a one week-long excavations in Poręba
• XII 2016 three days-long research visit in Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (comparative studies and photographic, graphic, and descriptive documentation of the turtles, placodonts and temnospondyls)
• 2015 leadership of the two weeks-long student excavations in Poręba
• 2014 leadership of the two weeks-long student excavations in Krasiejów
• 14–29 IV 2014 research visit in Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart and in Carl-Schweizer-Museum Murrhardt (comparative studies and photographic, graphic, and descriptive documentation of the turtles and protorosaurs)
• Since 2013 regular reconnaissance and control field trips to the Holy Cross Mountains, southern Mazovia and Silesia
• IX 2013 active participation in three weeks-long excavations in the Permian of Russia (Vyazniki)
• 2012 leadership of three days-long student excavations in Poręba
• 2012 active participation in two weeks-long excavations in Poręba
• Since 2011 work in the preparation room of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS (voluntary service and as part of the M.Sc. and Ph.D. studies)
• 2011 active participation in two weeks-long excavations in Krasiejów as part of the Field Paleobiology course on the University of Warsaw
• 2011 active participation in two weeks-long excavations in Lisowice
• 2010 one month-long internship in the Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS (e.g., collection indexing, work with a scanning electron microscope)

Prizes and awards

• 2018 distinction of the Ph.D. thesis "Early evolution of the turtle shell" on the reviewers’ recommendation
• 2014 first place in best oral presentation competition of the 4th Student Evolutionary Biology Conference

Academic teaching

• Since 2019 auxiliary advisor for the Ph.D. thesis of Przemysław Świś, M.Sc., “Impact of the Late Devonian and earliest Carboniferous environmental disturbances on faunal dynamics and evolution of conodonts” (Department of Paleobiology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw; scientific supervisor: Prof. Jerzy Dzik, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• 2018-2019 practical classes of the Biological diversity course, University of Warsaw, as a co-teacher (40 h)
• 2018 practical classes of the Zoology course, University of Warsaw, as a co-teacher (40 h)
• 2018 three out of the series of lectures of the Zoology course in the University of Warsaw, as a guest lecturer (6 h)

Other activities

• 2018 author of the animal taxa list on the Bone-bearing Keuper of the Upper Silesia, southern Poland (http://www.keuper.us.edu.pl/) webpage
• 2018 member of the Scientific Comitee of the Young in Paleontology IX conference
• 2018 consultation and correction of the Polish translation of the children’s book „Animals of a Bygone Era” („Zwierzęta minionej ery”) authored by M. Säfström (Wydawnictwo Czarna Owca, Warsaw, 2018)
• II 2017 filming of the promotional video for the Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS
• VI 2016 peer-review of the article for Cretaceous Research
• III 2016 help with the translation of the English-language visitor guide for the visitors of the Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS
• VII 2015 – II 2016 filming and production (video and sound editing) of three promotional video for the „Evolution in the Sea” exhibition in the Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS
• 7 VI 2015 active participation in „The Lost World of Dinosaurs” picnic organized by National Geographic Poland in the Praga Park in Warsaw as a representative of the Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS
• 2014 – 2016 conducting of the country-wide recruitments for the student excavation camps
• V 2014 preparation of the activities and stand, and active participation in the 18th Science Picnic in Warsaw as a representative of the Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAS

Scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals