Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska - Curriculum vitae & Obituaries#

• Obituary, by Richard L. Cifelli, Nature 520, 158 (09 April 2015)

Academic Degrees#

1.1949 Master of Philosophy in Zoological Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Warsaw University

2.1953 Ph. D. in paleontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Warsaw University

3.1957 Docent (Polish title corresponding to Dr. Sci.) at the Institute of Paleobiology , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

4. 1961 Full Professor at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences , Warsaw

Professional Occupations#

05.1945-08.1946. Assistant at the State Zoological Museum, Warsaw.

09.1948-12.1952. Assistant at the Department of Paleontology, Warsaw University, Poland.

01.1953-12.1960. Senior scientist at the Institute of Paleobiology , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

01.1961 - 12.1982. Professor and Director of the Institute of Paleobiology , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

08.1973-02.1974. Visiting Professor at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. USA.

09. 1982- 06.1984. Visiting Professor at the Institute de Paléontologie, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and Université Paris VII. France.

07. 1984 – 05.1987. Head of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

07. 1987 - 10. 1995. Professor of Paleontology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

08. 1995 - present. Professor Emeritus associated with the Institute of Paleobiology , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Grants and other activities#

1952: Two months grant to study at the National Museum in Prague, Czechoslovakia. (Agreement of exchange of scientists between Poland and Czechoslovakia).

1956-1957. Grant of the Polish Academy of Sciences to study in Paleontological Institutions in Scandinavian countries.

1957. Two months grant of to study at the National Museum in Prague , Czechoslovakia (exchange between the Polish and Czechoslovakian Academies of Sciences).

1960. Two months grant to study at the Stazione Zoologica Napoli, in Naples , Italy (Agreement between the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Zoological Station in Naples).

1975-1987. Editor of Palaeontologica Polonica

1963-1971. Organizer and leader of the Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions to Mongolia .

1981. Organizer of the Second International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems in Jadwisin , Poland .

1991. Organizer of the Fifth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota in Oslo , Norway .

1996-present. Editor of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Memberships of Professional Organizations, Honors, and Awards#

Member of the Polish Geological Society, Cracov, Poland (beginning with 1949);

Member of the Palaeontological Association (Great Britain);

Member of the Norwegian Paleontological Society, beginning with 1987, (president 1989-1994);

Honorary member of the Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, Poland ;

Honorary member of the Linnean Society ( London ), Great Britain;

Honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (USA);

Member (Academician) of the Polish Academy of Sciences (beginning with 1967), Poland .

Polish State Prize (1974) for work on early mammals.

Vice-president of the International Union of Geological Sciences, 1980-1989.

Vice-president of the International Paleontological Association, 1980-1992.

Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (beginning with 1989), Norway.

Member of Academia Europaea (beginning with 1991).

Doctor honoris causa of the University of Camerino, Italy,1989.

The Alfred Jurzykowski Prize of the Kościuszko Foundation in New York, 1994.

Romer-Simpson medal (1995) of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, USA.

President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (1996-1998).

Prime Minister's Prize for Outstanding Scientific Achievements (2005)

Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2005) for the book: Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, R. L. Cifelli, and Z.-X. Luo, Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs: Origins, Evolution, and Structure. 630 pp. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004.

Research Interests#

1949-1963 Paleozoic invertebrates (Devonian and Ordovician trilobites of Poland and neighboring countries, their anatomy, systematics, stratigraphic distribution and paleogeography; Ordovician and Silurian polychaete jaw apparatuses: their anatomy, evolution and relationship to modern forms).

1963 - present. Mesozoic mammals of the world: their osteology, musculature, brain structure, systematics, evolution and relationship to modern mammals.