Research staff

Maria Aleksandra BITNER, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Cretaceous and Cenozoic brachiopods

Błażej BŁAŻEJOWSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Microfossils, evolution of marine arthropods, paleoclimatic and environmental changes in the Arctic and Antarctic regions

Agata BONK, M.Sc.
Sunken wood communities

Milan CHROUST, Ph.D.
Turtles from Czechia and Poland: An overview of common evolution in Central Europe since the Triassic until Recent

Łukasz CZEPIŃSKI, Ph.D.
Evolution of archosaurs, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert, reptiles of the Polish Keuper

Łucja FOSTOWICZ-FRELIK, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
Phylogeny and evolution of Glires (Mammalia)

Przemysław GORZELAK, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Biomineralization of echinoderm skeleton, Mesozoic crinoids (Crinoidea), predator-prey interactions

Adam T. HALAMSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Cretaceous leaf floras; brachiopods (Silurian to Jurassic, mainly Middle Devonian); plant microtaxonomy (Ranunculus auricomus aggr.)

Krzysztof HRYNIEWICZ, Ph.D.,D.Sc.
Systematics and phylogeneny of bivalves; evolution and the fossil record of chemosymbiotic ecosystems; polar faunas, paleontology of the paleogene

Katarzyna JANISZEWSKA, Ph.D.
Cretaceous scleractinian corals: biomineralization and diagenesis

Andrzej KAIM, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
Early ontogeny and phylogeny of Mesozoic gastropods; evolution of chemosynthesis-based ecosystems; paleoecology of Mesozoic fossil assemblages; trends in body-size evolution

Anna KOZŁOWSKA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Silurian graptoloids (retiolitids): phylogeny, evolution, and systematics

Barbara KREMER, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
Cyanobacterial mats, black cherts, microbialites, taphonomy and paleobiology of acritarchs, paleogeomicrobiology, biosedimentology

Magdalena ŁUKOWIAK, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Demosponges and siliceous biomineralization, Mesozoic crinoids, fossil ascidia and their taxonomy

Marcin MACHALSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Late Cretaceous ammonites; K-Pg biotic and abiotic events; taphonomy of mid-Cretaceous marine vertebrates

Daniel MADZIA, Ph.D.,
Phylogeny of dinosaurs; taxonomy and paleoecology of Cretaceous marine reptiles

Wojciech MAJEWSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Antarctic foraminifera, Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions, mid-Miocene climate change; formerly: Middle Jurassic ammonites

Alicja OWCZAREK, M.Sc.
Paleoproteomics of fossil fish otoliths

Krzysztof OWOCKI , Ph.D.
Geochemistry, mineralogy and taphonomy of Cretaceous dinosaur bones from the Gobi Desert

Rafał PIECHOWSKI, Ph.D.
Functional anatomy of dinosaurs (including birds), crocodilians, turtles, synapsids, early tetrapods and other animal groups (based on skeletal and musculature reconstruction)

Adam RYTEL, M.Sc.
Biology of Tanystropheidae (Archosauromorpha)

Justyna SŁOWIAK, Ph.D.
Phylogeny and evolution of Lagomorpha (Mammalia); Phylogeny and evolution of dinosaurs

Jarosław STOLARSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor,
Mechanisms of biomineralization, origin and evolution of Anthozoa

Tomasz SULEJ, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
Triassic labyrinthodonts: phylogeny, evolution, and systematics

Tomasz SZCZYGIELSKI, Ph.D.
Triassic turtles, genesis of Testudines; diversity, evolution and phylogeny of reptiles

Andrzej Stefan WOLNIEWICZ, Ph.D.
Evolution and palaeobiology of Glires; systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Ichthyopterygias

 

Former and retired staff

Andrzej BALIŃSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Devonian and Carboniferous brachiopods

Magdalena BORSUK-BIAŁYNICKA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Mesozoic lizards; Triassic diapsids

Ismael CORONADO VILA, Ph.D.
Biominerals and biomaterials: Structure, composition and crystallography

Michał CZERNIELEWSKI, Ph.D.
Rodents (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Late Pliocene site of Węże 2: systematics, biogeography and ecomorphology

Dawid DRÓŻDŻ, Ph.D.
Evolution and biology of aetosaurs (Pseudosuchia)

Jerzy DZIK, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Early metazoan phylogeny and evolution of conodont apparatuses

Katarzyna FRANKOWIAK, Ph.D.
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Triassic scleractinian corals, coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis

Andrzej GAŹDZICKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Triassic-Jurassic microfossils: biostratigraphy, ecology, biogeography of the Tetyhs Realm and the Arctic; climate change during the Cenozoic and origin and evolution of the Antarctic biota

Józef KAŹMIERCZAK, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Fossil and recent cyanobacterial mats, biosedimentology, paleogeomicrobiology, calcareous algae, sclerosponges, biocalcification processes in space and time, astrobiology

Zofia KIELAN-JAWOROWSKA,  Ph.D., Dr.Sc., Professor
Mesozoic mammals, trilobites and polychaete jaw apparatuses

Dorota KOŁBUK, Ph.D.
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Diet and environmental parameters influencing Mg/Ca ratio of echinoderm skeleton

Sergi LÓPEZ-TORRES, Ph.D.
Phylogeny and evolution of Euarchontoglires (Mammalia)

Ewa OLEMPSKA-RONIEWICZ, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Palaeozoic ostracodes, foraminifers, and problematic microfossils: stratigraphy, paleoecology, evolution

Danuta PERYT, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Permian, Cretaceous, and Miocene foraminifera, Miocene calcareous nannoplankton

Maciej Krzysztof PINDAKIEWICZ, Ph.D.
Otoliths and statoliths of mesosoic fishes and cephalopods

Andrzej PISERA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Fossil and Recent sponges, especially lithistids; biosilicification; Mesozoic crinoids; fossil and Recent coralline red algae

Ewa RONIEWICZ, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Mesozoic scleractinian corals: skeletal microstructures

Hubert SZANIAWSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Scolecodonts, chaethognaths, and conodonts: phylogeny and evolution

Janina SZCZECHURA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor emeritus
Ostracodes, foraminifers and bolboforms (calcareous phytoplankton) from the Miocene of Carpathian Foredeep and its paleoecologic and paleogeographic significance.

Ryszard WRONA, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Early Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy