Education:
2002 - 2007: M.Sc. at the University of Gdansk; Biology, Geography and Oceanology Faculty
M.Sc thesis : "Suspended matter in the Hornsund fjord, Spitsbergen"
2007 - present: PhD study at the Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland
Department of Marine Ecology

Main scientific interests:
* ecology of polar zooplankton
* arctic planktovirous birds and zooplankton

On-going projects:
"The influence of climate change on zooplankton structure, populations of plankton - and fish - eating seabird colonies and function of the Arctic terrestrial ecosystem" (project KBN - N304 039 32/1883), running in years 2007-2009

Courses:
2008: workshop at The North Pacific Marine Science Organization conference, Dalian, China
"Status of marine ecosystems in the sub-arctic and arctic seas - Preliminary results of IPY field monitoring in 2007 and 2008"
2008: PhD students workshop at the Arctic Frontiers conference, Tromso, Norway "Petroleum activity in the Arctic and sound management - the need for research"
2006: "Foraminifera - Biodiversity and Ecology", Bergen, Norway
2006: "Summer School on Diversity of Coastal Habitats", Sylt-Helgoland, Germany

Research experience:
* R/V Oceania, Spitsbergen , June - August 2004, 2005 and 2006
* Hovercraft Gryfon, Archipelago of Finland - March 2006 (Fresh water influence on pelagic system - Archipelago of Finland)
* R/V Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, July 2007 (an international project COPOL aiming to study and compare uptake and transfer of contaminants in food webs representing different water masses (Arctic and Atlantic))