Employees

PhD Students

Graduates

ELENA YAZYKOVA

Ph.D., professor of UO

Academic achievements

Main study areas:

  • Late Cretaceous (biostratigraphy, palaeontology, palaeoecology, event stratigraphy, palaeobiogeography).
  • My main investigations focus on the European regions (Poland, Netherlands) and Far East Russia (Chukotka, Sakhalin and Kuril Islands, Amur area)
  • My main interest is with ammonites, but I also work with some other groups like inoceramids, echinoids, belemnites and others

KRYSTYNA WAINDZOCH

PhD Student

Scientific interests:

  • taxonomy and palaeoecology of Cretaceous ammonites
  • palaeobotany
  • vegetation of Middle Asia

KAMIL GRUNTMEJER

PhD

Scientific interests:

  • Dermal bone histology of early tetrapods,
  • Temnospondyls evolution and palaeobiology,
  • Fossil fauna of the Late Triassic vertebrates in Krasiejów,
  • Finite Element Method in the studies of the skull biomechanics in extant and fossil vertebrates,
  • Dinosauria,
  • Engineering geology.

ADAM BODZIOCH

Ph.D., professor of UO

Main study areas:

  • Muschelkalk (lithology, stratigraphy, palaeontology, sedimentology, diagenesis). My investigations focus on the Upper Silesia region in southern Poland.
  • Bone accumulations (sedimentology, diagenesis, paleontology). Recently I work on Lower Triassic accumulations at Gogolin and on Upper Triassic accumulations at Krasiejów and other localities in Silesia.
  • Biogeochemical processes in sediments.

MICHAŁ KRYCKI

PhD Student

Scientific interests:

  • Palaeobiology and palaeoecology of vertebrates, especially dinosaurs, pseudosuchians and Triassic archosaurs, thermophysiology of vertebrates
  • Isotopic palaeothermometry
  • Isotopic methods in palaentology
  • Physical chemistry of proteins and natural organic compounds
  • Origin of life on Earth and chemical processes and reactions involved
  • Chemistry of extraterrestrial objects, e. g. ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn

PIOTR JANECKI

PhD Student

Scientific interests:

  • Temnospondyl amphibians
  • Taxonomy
  • Paleobiology

MATEUSZ ANTCZAK

PhD, Assistant Professor

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1784-3499

Main study areas:

  • palaeobiology of amphibians (temnospondyls) and reptiles (aetosaurs) from Late Triassic (focused on the remains of Late Triassic site at Krasiejów)
  • microremains of vertebrates from Middle (Muschelkalk) and Late Triassic – biodiversity and palaeoecology
  • microstructure of fish scales as taxonomical and palaeocological tool
  • Other research interests: herpetology, palaeontological tourism, informal education and popularization of science

AGATA KOWALEWSKA

PhD Student

Scientific interests:

  • Palaeozoic arthropods, especially trilobites
  • Paleofauna of polish coast pebbles
  • Cretaceous ammonites

ELŻBIETA M. TESCHNER

Assistant

Menager of project UMO-2016/23/N/ST10/02179

Scientific interests:

  • Palaeobiological and histological analysis of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis (Temnospondyli) long bones
  • inter- and intraspecific analyzes and taphonomical studies on the late Triassic Krasiejów assemblage

PAWEŁ MUNIAK

PhD Student

Scientific interests:

  • Cretacesous of Mongolia and China
  • Mesozoic mammals
  • Palaeobiology and palaeogeography of mammals
  • Origin and evolution of mammals

DAWID MAZUREK

Assistant

Scientific interests:

  • taxonomy and palaeoecology of Cretaceous invertebrates
  • evolution of Mollusca
  • deep phylogeny

JAKUB KOWALSKI

PhD Student

Scientific interests:

  • Triassic small vertebrates
  • Paleobiology