Position
Head of the MB team
Address
W. Szafer Institute of Botany
Polish Academy of Sciences
Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków
Poland
Room
A-28
Research interests
Structure and patterns of biodiversity (mainly of plants and fungi) and dynamics of their change in time and space. Applying molecular tools to unravel patterns of genetic diversity and divergence in cold-adapted organisms with disjunctive distribution ranges, in order to understand their historical biogeography and population genetic processes within- and among extant populations. Main biological models: cold (alpine and arctic) ecosystems, especially the island-like alpine life zone of the Carpathians and other mountain ranges of Central Europe.
Higher education and employment history
- 2014 / Professorship of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2014 / Habilitation for leading research in biological sciences (biogeography), with distinction of the Scientific Council
- 2011–present / Head of the Molecular Biogeography Group and of the Laboratory of Molecular Analyses, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences
- 2005 / PhD in biological sciences, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, with distinction of the Scientific Council
- 2005–2014 / Assistant professor (adiunkt), W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków
- 2000–2005 / Research assistant, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków
- 1998 / MSc in biology, Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Projects
- 2016–2019 / Evolution and past range dynamics of the terrestrial Antarctic biota: insights from next-generation phylogeography of endemic mosses. NCN (National Science Centre, Poland) OPUS grant. Project leader
- 2012–2016 / DRYADE: The fate of ecological interactions in a changing climate: using next-generation sequencing technologies to unravel adaptive and historical processes in a community of interrelated arctic-alpine organisms. Polish-Swiss Research Programme grant. Project leader (with Dr Nadir Alvarez, Lausanne, co-leader in Switzerland)
- 2007–2011 / ECOCHANGE: Challenges in assessing and forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe. 6th FP EU-funded grant. Task leader, researcher (project leader: Dr Pierre Taberlet, Grenoble, France)
- 2007–2010 / Comparative phylogeography of selected high-mountain species in the Carpathians: retracing historical relationships and identifying centers of genetic diversity. Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant. Project leader
- 2004–2006 / INTRABIODIV: Tracking surrogates for intraspecific biodiversity: towards efficient selection strategies for the conservation of natural genetic resources using comparative mapping and modeling approaches. 6th FP EU-funded grant. Task coordinator, researcher (project leader: Dr Pierre Taberlet, Grenoble, France)