Department of  Biogeology

Head of the Department:

Jarosław STOLARSKI, Ph.D., D.Sc.
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Mechanisms of biomineralization, origin and evolution of Anthozoa

Józef KAŹMIERCZAK, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
[Early Life and Microbial Sediments Working Group]
Fossil and recent cyanobacterial mats, biosedimentology, paleogeomicrobiology, calcareous algae, sclerosponges, biocalcification processes in space and time, astrobiology

Barbara KREMER, Ph.D.
[Early Life and Microbial Sediments Working Group]
Cyanobacterial mats, black cherts, microbialites, taphonomy and paleobiology of acritarchs, paleogeomicrobiology, biosedimentology

Ewa RONIEWICZ, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Mesozoic scleractinian corals: skeletal microstructures

PhD students:

Przemysław GORZELAK, M.Sc.
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Biomineralization of echinoderm skeleton, Mesozoic crinoids (Crinoidea), predator-prey interactions

Katarzyna JANISZEWSKA, M.Sc.
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Cretaceous scleractinian corals: biomineralization and diagenesis

Katarzyna KRZYWIECKA, M.Sc.
[Biostructures and Biomineralization Working Group]
Triassic scleractinian corals: biomineralization and evidences of the coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis

Krzysztof OWOCKI, M.Sc.
[Early Life and Microbial Sediments Working Group]
Geochemistry, mineralogy and taphonomy of Cretaceous dinosaur bones from the Gobi Desert