Zuzanna Borawska
address:
Department of Marine Ecology, Institute of Oceanology PAN
Powstańców Warszawy 55, 81-712 Sopot, POLAND
tel: (+ 48 58) 73 11 696
e-mail: zborawska [at] iopan.gda.pl

Education
  • 2018 – present - PhD student at the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland.
  • 2015 – 2017 - Master of Science in geology. Thesis title: "The Silurian Rocks of the Wydryszów Anticline, Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland".
    Supervisors: Dr. Ewa Durska and Dr. Wojciech Kozłowski. Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2012 - 2015 - Bachelor of Science. Thesis title: "Carbon and Sulfur isotopic Anomalies during the Hirnantian Glaciation". Supervisor: Dr. Wojciech Kozłowski. Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Scientific interests
  • Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemical cycles
  • Geochemistry of marine sediments
  • Ecology and taxonomy of benthic organisms (i.e. sponges)
  • paleontology
Research experience
  • 2018 JUNE – JULY - Part-time work in the project "Structural and Isotopic aspects of the biosilica: biological and environmental record inside the sponge spicules" coordinated by Professor Andrzej Pisera. Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2017 SEPTEMBER - 1-month internship in the project "Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration: the history and destiny of sponges coordinated" by Dr. Paolo G. Albano (University of Vienna) and Dr. Magdalena Łukowiak (Polish Academy of Sciences). University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 2016-2017 - 10-month laboratory and field internship in the project "The use of diagenetic alterations to determine homogeneity of fossil bone assemblages from archaeological sites" coordinated by Dr. Maciej Krajcarz. Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2016 - Participation in the Erasmus+ Exchange Program (spring semester) Department of Geology, Lund University, Sweden.
Workshops and courses
  • 2018 - International workshop for researchers involved in the project "Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration" (speaker). Project coordinated by Dr. Paolo G. Albano. University of Vienna, Austria.
  • 2017 - Participation in the paleolimnological course (two days) "Subfossil Cladocera Introductory Workshop" coordinated by Dr. Edyta Zawisza. Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
  • 2015 - Participation in a four-day workshop "Principles of Clastic Sequence Stratigraphy" led by Professor Guy Plint from University of Western Ontario, Canada. Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Conferences
  • Borawska Z., Łukowiak M., Albano, P. G., 2018. "Migracja lessepska – wpływ otwarcia Kanału Sueskiego na gąbki wschodnich wybrzeży Morza Śródziemnego". Polish Conference Młodzi w Paleontologii IX, Warsaw, 21-22 April 2018 (speaker).

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