CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal data
Marcin Machalski
Born in 1959, Warszawa, Poland
Married, four children
Academic degrees
- since 2019 Professor in Earth Sciences
- 2018 - 2022 chairman of Scientific Council of IP PAN
- 1983 Master of Science in paleontology at Warsaw
University (Kimmeridgian paleoecology)
- 1993 Doctoral degree in geology at the Institute of
Paleobiology (Kimmeridgian oyster shell beds)
- 2007 Doctor habilitus degree in geology at the Institute
of Paleobiology (Late Cretaceous scaphitid ammonites)
Research topics
- Latest Cretaceous ammonites – taxonomy, evolution,
extinction and stratigraphic significance
- Biotic and abiotic events at the Cretaceous-Paleogene
boundary
- Taphonomy of marine vertebrates in condensed
mid-Cretaceous deposits in Poland;
- Arthropod trace fossils
- Taxonomy, paleoecology and taphonomy of Jurassic,
Cretaceous and Paleocene oysters
Research grants
- 2000 - 2002 Bio- i chemostratigraphy of Campanian and
Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) key-sections of Europe in
relation to the reference succession in US Western
Interior (participant, grant MNiSW)
- 2010 - 2013 Vertebrate taphonomy in condensed
mid-Cretaceous deposits of the Annopol anticline (NE
border of the Holy Cross Mts.) (leader, grant MNiSW)
- 2013 - 2016 The Albian phosphorite horizon at Annopol –
a unique „Fossil Lagerstätte” in Poland, and its
palaeobiological significance (leader, grant NCN)
- 2016 - 2020 Mode of life and habitat of scaphitid
ammonites as a key for understanding their evolution near
the end of Cretaceous (leader, grant NCN)
Editorial Work
- 1996 - 2000 assistant editor in Acta Palaeontologica
Polonica
- 2000 - 2002 editor of Earth Sciences and Paleontology,
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Prószyński i S-ka
(3 volumes, 2002).
- 2009 - 2014 editor in chief of Rocznik Muzeum Ewolucji
- 2009 - 2013 member of the editorial board of Przegląd
Geologiczny
- 2012 - 2024 associate editor of Cretaceous Research
- 2014 - co-editor of Ewolucja (together with professor
Jerzy Dzik)
Teaching
- Supervison of M.Sc. theses at Faculty of Geology, Warsaw
University:
Orłowska-Sobocińska, B. (1999). Terebratulida from the
Kimmeridgian of Małogoszcz. Intraspecific variation in
environmental context. 68 pp. (co-supervisor prof. J.
Trammer) Kupiecka, I.A. (2001). Environmental and
faunistic changes in the late Maastrichtian as recorded in
the Town Quarry succession at Kazimierz Dolny). 47 pp.
(co-supervisor prof. J. Trammer).
Nast., D. (2007). Non-oyster bivalves and their ecology as
recorded in the Małogoszcz section. 75 pp. (co-supervisor
prof. U. Radwańska).
Zielińska, M. (2003). Evolution of the late Tithonian
carbonate environments as recorded in the Sławno-Owadów
section in Tomaszów Synkline. 102 pp. (co-supervisor prof.
B.A. Matyja).
- Lecture series: Taphonomy and the nature of the fossil
record (for Ph.D. students)
- 2013. Habilitation review, Geology Department, Warsaw
University
- 2013. Ph.D. thesis review, Faculty of Earth Sciences,
University of Silesia
- 2014. Ph.D. thesis review, Faculty of Biology and Earth
Sciences, Jagiellonian University
- Supervision of Ph.D. thesis of Grzegorz Sadlok
„Upper Cambrian trace fossils from the Wiśniówka Sandstone
Fromation in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)” (public
defence in 2014)
- Supervision of Ph.D. thesis of Daniel Madzia ”Teeth of
Cretaceous pliosaurids and mosasaurids as a source of
knowledge of their biology and phylogeny" (public defence
in 2018)
- 2019. Ph.D. thesis review, Geology Department, Warsaw
University
- 2020. Review in connection with the procedure for
conferring the academic title of professor
- 2021. Ph.D. thesis review, Geology Department, Warsaw
University
- 2022. Review of scientific achievement and scientific
and organisational output in the framework of habilitation
proceedings at the AGH University of Science and
Technology
Additional experience
- 2007 - 2010 head of Museum of Evolution
Ph.D. students
Grzegorz Sadlok - Cambrian trace fossils (Ph.D. granted 2014)
Daniel
Madzia - Phylogeny of dinosaurs; taxonomy and
paleoecology of Cretaceous marine reptiles (Ph.D. granted
2018)
Oksana
Malchyk - Cretaceous paleontology, bivalves, nautiloids