Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data
Adam Rytel, Born in 1997 in Gdańsk

Academic degrees  

• Since 2021 – PhD student in the Bioplanet Doctoral School. Scientific Advisor: dr hab. Tomasz Sulej, prof. IP PAN
• 2021 – MSc in Biology (with individual study programme), University of Warsaw.
  Thesis: Modularity of the neck in Tanystropheidae revealed by geometric morphometrics (supervisors: dr Mateusz Tałanda, prof. Christine Böhmer – University of Kiel, PhD Stephan Spiekman – Natural History Museum in London)
• 2020 – BSc in Geology (with individual study programme), University of Gdańsk. Two semesters spent at the University of Warsaw as an exchange student.
  Thesis: Controversies concerning the mode of life of Tanystropheus in the light of the new paleontological site in Miedary (supervisor: dr Mateusz Tałanda, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
• 2019 –BSc in Geography (with individual study programme), University of Gdańsk.
  Thesis: Geomorphological conditioning of the spatial extent of the recent storm sediments in the Pobrzeże Gdańskie area (supervisor: dr Damian Moskalewicz)

Grant projects:

• Since 2021 - 2020/39/O/NZ8/02301 “Solving the mystery of the mode of life of a long-necked Triassic reptile Tanystropheus” – PhD student
• 2021 – 2017/27/B/NZ8/01543 “The end of the mammal-like reptile era in Europe” – preparation technician

Membership in associations and student organisations

• Since 2022 – Member of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology
• Since 2021 – Member of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
• 2019-2021 – Secretary of the Students’ Scientific Circle of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw
• 2017-2019 – Member, and later Chairman, of the Students’ Scientific Circle of GIS “GISoteka”, University of Gdańsk
• 2017-2019 – Vice-chairman of the Students’ Scientific Circle of Geologists, University of Gdańsk
• 2017-2019 – Vice-chairman of the Students’ Scientific Circle of Geographers, University of Gdańsk
• Since 2017 – co-organiser of the Polish Geography Olympiad - member of a Regional Committee in Gdańsk, juror of the regional and central competitions, as well as the qualifying competitions for the International Geography Olympiad

Fieldwork expirience

• Since 2020 – Participation and co-organisation of excavations in the Late Triassic sites in The Holy Cross Mountains
• Since 2020 – Participation and co-organisation of excavations in the Late Triassic Kocury site
• Since 2018 – Participation and co-organisation of excavations in the Middle Triassic Miedary site
• 2017 – Participation in excavations in the Late Triassic Lisowice site

Conferences

• 2023 – 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, poster “Unique Internal Anatomy Of Cervical Vertebrae Discovered In Triassic Archosauromorphs From Central Europe”
• 2023 - The 4^th International Symposium on Triassic and later Marine Vertebrate Faunas, oral presentation “Surprising abundance of Tanystropheus remains in the new Ladinian site from Poland”
• 2023 - 20^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, poster “Tanystropheus hotspot in a new Middle Triassic vertebrate assemblage from southern Poland”
• 2022 - 19^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, oral presentation “The Large, the Small and the Unusual – a New, Multispecific Tanystropheid Assemblage From Southern Poland”
• 2021 - 18^th Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, poster “Modularity of the neck in Tanystropheidae – insight from Geometric Morphometrics”
• 2021 – Triassic Vertebrate Paleontology Meetup, oral presentation “New finds of a gigantic Tanystropheus from southern Poland”
• 2021 – 5^th International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Palaeontology, oral presentation “Environmental, spatial and temporal distribution of Tanystropheus (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha)”

Visits in scientific collections of Triassic vertebrates

In Poland:

• Nature Education Centre of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 1 day
• Institute of Biology of the University of Opole, Opole, 1 day
• Institute of Earth Sciences of the Silesian University, Sosnowiec, 1 day
• Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 2 days
• Geological Museum of the University of Warsaw, Warszawa, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the Institute of Geological Sciences PAS, Kraków, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the AGH University of Krakow, Kraków, 1 day
• Geological Museum of the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, 2 days
• Museum of the Earth PAS, Warszawa, 1 day
• Department of Paleozoology of the University of Wrocław, Wrocław, 1 day
  
  
Outside of Poland:

• Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Berlin, 2 days
• Friulian Museum of Natural History Udine, Udine, 2 days
• Institute of Geosciences, Jena, 1 day
• Jena Phyletisches Museum, Jena, 1 day
• Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels, Hamburg, 1 day
• Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), 1 day
• Muschelkalk Museum Ingelfingen, Ingelfingen, 2 days
• Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale Lugano, Lugano, 1 day
• Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, 3 days
• Museum der Natur Gotha, Gotha, 1 day
• Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Berlin, 2 days
• Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, Magdeburg, 1 day
• Naturhistorisches Museum Schloss Bertholdsburg Schleusingen, Schleusingen, 1 day
• Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Wien, 2 days
• Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, Erfurt, 1 day
• Naturmuseum Winterthur, Winterhur, 1 day
• Paleontological Collection of the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 2 days
• Paleontological Institute and Museum Zurich, Zurich, 6 months
• Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main), 1 day
• Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 5 days
• State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1 day
• The Palaeontological Museum Munich, Munich, 1 day
• Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken Bayreuth, Bayreuth, 2 days

Publications

Contact

Adam Rytel
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: adam.rytel@twarda.pan.pl
phone.: (+48 22) 6978-899; room 107