Education:

• 2008 - present: PhD student at the Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot, Poland
• 2007 - 2008: PhD student at Sea Fisheries Institute, Gdynia, Poland
• 2007: MSc in the field of Oceanography majoring in Marine Biology (Thesis: The size and distribution of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus nests in the Gulf of Gdańsk - underwater observations), Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology, University of Gdansk

Training/Courses

• Summer school, International Polychaete Course, White Sea Biological Station of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, 2011
• The training process for Environmental Impact Assessment with emphasis on natural protected areas and local communities, Foundation for the Development of Gdansk University and Regional Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Gdańsk, Poland, 2011
• APECS Early Career Researcher Workshop: Shaping the Future of Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011
• International PhD workshop Marine Biodiversity under change, ARCTOS PhD School, Tromso, Norway, 2010
• Statistica and Canoco training course, IOPAS, Sopot, 2009
• Workshop on Changes of the Polar Ecosystem, Czech Republic, 2009
• Workshop on GIS, GIScience Laboratory, Gdynia, Poland, 2008
• Workshop: Use of underwater photography and filming in scientific documentations, Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, Institute of Oceanography, Gdynia, Poland, 2008
• Working at Sea - Safety and First Aid, Sea Fisheries Institute, Gdynia, Poland, 2007
• Workshop on harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena. Cetacean pathology: dissection techniques and tissue sampling, Hel Marine Station, Poland, 2003

On-going projects:

• Factors controlling biodiversity on hard, mobile substrate in the shallow Arctic sublittoral, National Science Centre, 2011/01/N/NZ8/04493, years 2012-2013
• Polish coastal waters shipwreck fauna inventory
• Colonization and succession in the Baltic, Greenland and Bellingshausen Sea
• NaGISA - Natural Geography of Shore Areas

Professional interests:

• Benthic ecology
• Diversity of epibenthic megafauna
• Shipwrecks as hard substrata islands - hotspots for marine biodiversity
• Scuba diving and underwater photography in research

Publications:

• Bałazy, P., Kukliński, P. (in prep.) Persistence of the epibiotic assemblages on mobile Arctic and sub-Arctic hard substrate.
• Balazy, P., Kulinski, P. (in prep.) Mobile hard substrate - additional biodiversity source in shallow subtidal Arctic system?
• Kukliński, P., Sokołowski, A., Ziółkowska, M., Bałazy, P., Novosel, M., Barnes, DKA. (in press) Growth ratio of selected sheet-like bryozoan colonies along latitudinal transect.
• Sapota, M.R., Bałazy P. (in prep.) Modification in the reproduction strategy - reason of the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) invasion success in the Gulf of Gdansk
• Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M., Jankowska, E., Kotwicki, L., Bałazy, P. (in prep.) Effects of sea-grass cover on meio- and macrozoobenthic communities and sedyment characteristics nn Zostera marina meadows of the Puck Bay (Baltic Sea)

Conference presentations:

• Bałazy, P., Kukliński, P. 2011. Dynamics of epibiont diversity on mobile Arctic and sub-Arctic hard substrate - five years study, WCMB, Aberdeen, Scotland (Oral presentation)
• Ziółkowska, M., Sokołowski, A., Plichta, I., Kukliński, P., Bałazy, P., Wołowicz, M. 2011. Development of invertebrate assemblages on hard substrate in coastal region of the Gulf of Gdańsk, ICES, Gdańsk, Poland (Poster presentation)
• Bałazy, P., Kukliński, P. 2011. Dynamics of epibiont diversity on mobile Arctic and sub-Arctic hard substrate - five years study, AMAP, Copenhagen, Denmark (Poster presentation)
• Bałazy, P., Kukliński, P. 2009. Persistence of the epibiotic assemblages on mobile, arctic and sub-arctic hard substrate. Arctic Frontiers, Tromso, Norway (Poster presentation)

Professional experience:

• Isfjorden, West Spitsbergen, IO PAS, 2011
• Antarctic, South Shetland Islands, King George Island, Polish Antarctic Station, Henryk Arctowski, 2010-2011
  - habitat mapping, echinoderm diversity, encrusting fauna (species composition, diversity, interactions), colonization and succession in coastal waters
• Isfjorden West Spitsbergen, IO PAS, 2010
  - field experiment, hermit crabs
• West Spitsbergen fjords and Svalbard Bank, S/Y Oceania, IOPAS, 2009
  - distribution of hermit crabs and their associates in different enviroments
• Baltic Sea, Maritime Branch of Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute, 2008-2011
  - macrophytes monitoring programme
• Gulf of Gdańsk, Vistulan Lagoon and Baltic Sea, R/V Baltica, Sea Fisheries Institute, 2006-2008
  - acoustic telemetry systems, monitoring the behavior, migration, and survival of aquatic animals, biological analysis of cod
• Baltic Sea, ORP Kopernik, Polish Navy and University of Gdansk, 2004
  - environmental conditions in the Baltic Sea Deeps