Education:

• 2009 – 2015: PhD at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Marine Ecology.
• 2004 – 2009: MSc at the University of Gdansk, faculty of Geography and Oceanography.

• 2015 – : research scientist at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Marine Ecology Department
• 2012 – 2015: PhD student at the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
• 2011 – 2012: research scientist – SCIEX at the University of Geneva, Department of Genetics and Evolution

• Ecology of benthic Foraminifera
• Foraminifera as a proxy of past and present environmental changes
• Metagenomics of Arctic Foraminifera assemblages

Publications:

1. Szymańska N., Pawłowska J., Kucharska M., Kujawa A., Łącka M., Zajączkowski M. Impact of Shelf Transformed Water (STW) on foraminiferal assemblages in the glacial and outwash fjords of Adventfjorden and Hornsund, Svalbard. Oceanologia, accepted
2. Pawłowska J., Zajączkowski M., Szczuciński W., Zaborska A., Kucharska M., Jernas P.E., Forwick M. 2017. The influence of Coriolis force driven circulation on the palaeoenvironment of Hornsund (S Spitsbergen) over the last century. Boreas, in press.
3. Pawłowska J., Zajączkowski M., Łącka M., Lejzerowicz F., Esling P., Pawlowski J., 2016. Palaeoceanographic changes in Hornsund Fjord (Spitsbergen, Svalbard) over the last millennium: new insight from ancient DNA. Climate of the Past 12:1459-1472.
4. Szczuciński W., Pawłowska J., Lejzerowicz F., Nishimura Y., Kokociński M., Majewski W., Nakamura Y., Pawlowski J. 2016. Ancient DNA reveals past tsunami deposits. Marine Geology 381:29-33.
5. Ojala A.E.K., Arppe L., Luoto T., Wacker L., Kurki E., Zajączkowski M., Pawłowska J., Damrat M., Oksman M. 2016. Sedimentary environment, litostratigraphy and dating of sediment sequences from Arctic lakes Revvatnet and Svartvatnet in Hornsund, Svalbard. Polish Polar Research 37(1):23-48.
6. Wegner C., Bennett K.E., de Vernal A., Forwick M., Fritz M., Heikkilä M., Łącka M., Lantuit H., Laska M., Moskalik M., O’Regan M., Pawłowska J., Promińska A., Rachold V., Vonk J.E., Werner., 2015. Variability in transport of terrigenous material on the shelves and the deep Arctic Ocean during the Holocene. Polar Research, 34:24964
7. Łącka M, Pawłowska J., Zajączowski M., 2015. New methods in reconstruction of the Arctic marine paleoenvironments. In: Zieliński T., Węsławski J., Kuliński K. (eds.) Impact of climate changes on marine environments, Springer Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, p. 127-148.
8. Iglikowska A., Pawłowska J., 2015. The adaptations of the Foraminifera and Ostracoda to fresh water colonization. In: Zieliński T., Węsławski J., Kuliński K. (eds.) Impact of climate changes on marine environments, Springer Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, p. 91-113.
9. Pawłowska J., Lejzerowicz F., Esling P., Szczuciński W., Zajączkowski M., Pawłowski J., 2014. Ancient DNA sheds new light on the Svalbard fossil foraminiferal record from the last millenium. Geobiology, 12: 277-288.
10. Włodarska-Kowalczuk M., Pawłowska J., Zajączkowski M., 2013. Do Foraminifera mirror patterns of diversity and distribution of macrobenthic fauna in an Arctic glacial fjord? Marine Micropaleontology, 103:30-39.
11. Pawłowska J., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M, Zajączkowski M, Nygård H, Berge J. (2011) Seasonal variability of meio- and macrobenthic standing stocks and diversity in an Arctic fjord (Adventfjorden, Spitsbergen). Polar Biology 34: 833-845

Research grants:

• 2016 – 2019: “Paleogenetic reconstruction of Atlantic Water advection to the Arctic Ocean during the Holocene” Project funded by the National Science Centre, position: principal investigator
• 2013 – 2017: Ciepłe i zimne okresy późnego holocenu w Arktyce europejskiej. Paleogentyczny zapis zmian środowiska morskiego w osadach fiordu Hornsund (Spitsbergen, Svalbard). Project funded by the National Science Centre, position: main contractor.
• 2013 – 2017: Declining size - a general response to climate warming in Arctic fauna? (DWARF). Project funded by EEA/Norway Financial Mechanism Project, position: work package leader.
• 2011 – 2012: ‘Paleometagenetics of Arctic Foraminifera (PALMEGAFOR)’, SCIEX (Swiss Research Fellowships), position: fellow.
• 2011 – 2014 :‘Biodiversity of Foraminifera in a warming climate. Paleoceanographic record of climate changes after the Little Ice Age’. Project funded by the National Science Centre, position: principal investigator.

Project participation:

• 2013 – 2016: “Quantifying climate variability since Late – glacial in Southern Svalbard”. Project funded by the Academy of Finland.
• 2010 – 2012: “Advection of Atlantic Waters to the European part of the Arctic in Holocene: Paleoceanographic record of fluctuations in West Spitsbergen Current”. Project funded by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
• 2008 – 2011: “Biodiversity of the arctic marine ecosystems in a changing climate of the last 4 thousand years. New application of the paleoceanographic record”. Project under the umbrella of IPY No 786 project Arctic warming in the Past.

Awards:

• START 2016 stipend for outstanding young researchers awarded by Foundation for Polish Science
• “The Brian J. O’Neill Memorial Grant-in-Aid” awarded by the Grzybowski Foundation
• National Science Center Scholarship ETIUDA, 2014, project code: 2014/12/T/ST10/00675.
• IOPAS Scholarship for Outstanding Students, 2012.