Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data

Andrzej Stefan Wolniewicz
Born in 1989, Gostyń, Poland


Academic degrees

• 2018 DPhil (PhD) in Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK
• 2013 BA (Hons) in Biological Sciences (First Class), University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK

Professional experience

• 2019–present: post-doc in mammal palaeobiology (academic advisor: Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik, Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• 2018 Research Assistant, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK

Awards and scholarschips

• 2017 Jackson School of Geosciences Student Travel Award
• 2017 Best Talk Prize, Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists, Kraków, Poland

Grants

• 2015 Doris O. and Samuel E. Welles Travel Fund, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, CA, USA
• 2013 Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Studentship

Field work

• 2014, 2015, 2018 – Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland (supervision: R. Benson)
• 2014 – Upper Triassic of Jameson Land, Greenland (supervision: T. Sulej)
• 2011, 2013 – Upper Triassic of Lisowice/Lipie Śląskie, Poręba, Woźniki, Poland (supervision: T. Sulej, G. Niedźwiedzki)
  

Publications

Scientific papers

Bindellini, G., Wolniewicz, A. S., Miedema, F., Scheyer, T. M. and Dal Sasso, C. 2021. Cranial anatomy of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus Dal Sasso & Pinna, 1996 (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Italy/Switzerland: taxonomic and palaeobiological implications. PeerJ: 11179. [Text - journal site]

Wolniewicz, A.S and Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2021. CT-informed skull osteology of Palaeolagus haydeni (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) and its bearing on the reconstruction of the early lagomorph body plan. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:634757. [Text - journal site]

Madzia, D., Szczygielski, T., and Wolniewicz, A.S. 2021. The giant pliosaurid that wasn’t—revising the marine reptiles from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic, of Krzyżanowice, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66. [Text - journal site]

Sulej, T., Krzesiński, G., Tałanda, M., Wolniewicz, A.S., Błażejowski, B., Bonde, N., Gutowski, P., Sienkiewicz, M., Niedźwiedzki, G. 2020. The earliest-known mammaliaform fossil from Greenland sheds light on origin of mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). [Text - journal site]

Close, R. A., Davis, B. M., Walsh, S., Wolniewicz, A.S., Friedman, M., Benson, R. B. J. 2015. A lower jaw of Palaeoxonodon from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, sheds new light on the diversity of British stem therians. Palaeontology 59: 155-169. [text - journal site]

Sulej T., Wolniewicz A.S., Bonde N., Błażejowski B., Niedźwiedzki G., Tałanda M. 2014. New perspectives on the Late Triassic vertebrates of East Greenland: preliminary results of a Polish-Danish palaeontological expedition. Polish Polar Research 35(4): 541-552. [text - journal site]


Qiao, Y., Liu, J., Iijima, M., Wintrich, T., Wolniewicz, A. S., Shen, Y., Li, Q., and Sander, P. M. 2021. Ichthyosaurian affinity of Omphalosaurus illuminated by new discovery from the Lower Triassic of South China. 9th International Meeting on the Secondary Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water, Virtual.

Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł., Wolniewicz, A. S. 2020. CT-informed cranial anatomy of Palaeolagus haydeni (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) and its bearing on the reconstruction of basal lagomorph morphotype. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Wolniewicz, A. S. 2020. A new ichthyosaurid (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Blue Lias Formation (Hettangian–Sinemurian, Lower Jurassic) of Warwickshire, UK, with implications for the taxonomy and phylogeny of Ichthyosauridae. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th Annual Meeting, Virtual.

Wolniewicz A.S., Motani, R., Benson, R. B. J. 2018. A bizarre, new ichthyosaur from the Blue Lias Formation (Lower Jurassic, Hettangian–Sinemurian) of the United Kingdom provides evidence for a temporally staggered ichthyosaur turnover across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. GeoBonn 2018, Bonn, Germany.

Wolniewicz A.S. 2017. A reassessment of the cranial anatomy of Cymbospondylus and its implications on the taxonomy and phylogeny of Cymbospondylidae. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 76th Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Wolniewicz A.S., Motani, R., Morrison, I., Benson R. B. J. 2017. A large macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Late Triassic of Williston Lake (British Columbia, Canada) indicates high ecological diversity of basal Parvipelvia. Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists, Kraków, Poland.

Wolniewicz A.S., Motani, R., Morrison, I., Benson R. B. J. 2016. A large macropredatory ichthyosaur from the Late Triassic of Williston Lake (British Columbia, Canada) indicates high ecological diversity of basal Parvipelvia. Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology 75th Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Wolniewicz A.S., Motani, R. 2015. A new genus and species of ichthyosaur (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) from the Blue Lias Formation (Lower Jurassic) of the United Kingdom. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 74th Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, USA.

Niedźwiedzki G., Bonde N., Błażejowski B., Tałanda M., Wolniewicz A.S., Sulej, T. 2014. Early sauropodomorph footprints in the Late Triassic of East Greenland. 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina.

Close R., Benson R. B. J., Friedman M., Walsh S., Wolniewicz A.S. 2014. A new representative of stem-lineage Zatheria (Mammalia) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of the Isle of Skye. Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, York, UK.



Wolniewicz, A. S. 2019. Review of Mesozoic Sea Dragons: Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio. Palaeontologia Electronica, 22(3), 3R:3p. [text - journal site]

Wolniewicz, A.S. 2015. Rybojaszczury. Ewolucja 5: 34–39.

Contact

Andrzej Stefan Wolniewicz
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e–mail: wolniewicz[at]twarda.pan.pl

phone: (+4822) 697 8892; room 632