Department Director - Botany, Nature Research Institute of Iceland (prev. Icelandic Institute of Natural History), Akureyri, Iceland, Dec. 2024 – now
I oversee the Department of Botany and continue to manage the responsibilities previously held as a Research Scientist. These include leading plant taxonomy, biogeography, phylogeography, and non-native species research, maintaining plant distribution databases, and curating vascular plant herbaria.
Research Scientist, Icelandic Institute of Natural History (IINH), Akureyri, Iceland, Sept. 2012–Dec.2024
I conducted basic research in botany, with a primary scientific focus on plant taxonomy, biogeography, phylogeography, and non-native species. I managed the plant distribution databases at the Nature Research Institute of Iceland, the largest biodiversity data repository in the country. Additionally, I served as the curator of vascular plant herbaria in both Akureyri (AMNH) and Reykjavik (ICEL). Beyond scientific research, I represented Iceland in various international bodies and expert groups.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Biology and Environ. Scien., Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Univ., Warsaw, Poland. Oct. 2010 - Sept. 2012
I was responsible for teaching general botany, phytosociology, and systematic botany courses. I was also the main person in charge of organizing the biology students' practical field course. In addition to my teaching duties, I was in charge of conducting basic botany and biogeography research.
University of Silesia Katowice, Poland, Ph.D. in botany, summa cum laude (2006–2010)
University of Silesia Katowice, Poland, M.Sc. general and experimental biology, summa cum laude (2004–2006)
University of Silesia Katowice, Poland, B.Sc. in biology (2001-2004)
Polish native
English
Icelandic
Latin
Acta Agrobotanica
Acta Biologica Cracoviensia Series Botanica
Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae
AoB Plants
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
Central European Journal of Biology
Ecological Indicators
Ecosphere
Environmental & Socio-economic Studies
Environmental Reserach Letters
Geothermics
Icelandic Agricultural Sciences
Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment
Kosmos
Nordic Journal of Botany
PLoS ONE
Plants
Plant Systematics and Evolution
Polar Biology
Preslia
Scientific Reports
The Icelandic Center for Research - RANNIS
The Polish national agency for academic exchange - NAWA
Turkish Journal of Botany
Coordinator of The European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) (2015- present)
Representative of Iceland in the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species of the Bern Convention (2014- present)
Chair of the Group of Experts on Invasive Alien Species of the Bern Convention (2019 - 2024)
Member of the expert panel (Natural Science and Environmental Science) - Icelandic Center for Research (RANNIS) 2015-2017
Chair of the expert panel (Natural Science and Environmental Science) - Icelandic Center for Research (RANNIS) 2018-2021
Member of the Advisory Committee on Exotic Species to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Iceland [Sérfræðinganefnd um framandi lífverur] (since 2016)
Chair of the steering committee of the Arctic Flora Inventory - AFI project (CAFF, Arctic Council) 2016-2020
Member of the steering committee of the Arctic Invasive Alien Species - ARIAS project (CAFF, Arctic Council) 2015-2020
Member of the managing committee of the European Information System for Alien Species (FA COST Action TD1209)
The Icelandic Biological Society since 2013
Polish Botanical Society (PTB) since 2006
The Icelandic Natural History Society (Hið íslenska náttúrufræðifélag) since 2019
Auxiliary supervisor: Olga Bemowska-Kałabun, Phenotypic and genetic study on microevolutionary changes in populations of Geranium robertianum (Geranicaeae) [Fenotypowe i genetyczne badania zmian mikroewolucyjnych w populacjach Geranium robertianum (Geraniaceae)], Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland, 2014-2018.
Auxiliary supervisor: Przemysław Tomczyk, Phenotypic and genetic variation in Festuca amethystina, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lódz, Poland, 2018 - 2023