Curriculum vitae

Pawel Wasowicz

born 16.04.1981

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Employment

• Research Scientist, Icelandic Institute of Natural History (IINH),  Akureyri, Iceland, Sept. 2012–present

I am in charge of conducting basic research in the area of botany. My primary areas of scientific interest include non-native species, phylogeography, and biogeography. In addition to my scientific duties, I am in charge of the IINH's plant distribution databases. I am the curator of the vascular plant herbaria in Reykjavik (ICEL) and Akureyri (AMNH), and I represent Iceland in several international organizations and expert groups (see below).

• 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.

Academic Qualifications

• 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)

Languages

• Polish native

• English

• Icelandic

• Latin

Reviewer for the following journals and grant agencies

• 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

Member of committees and expert groups

• 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)

Memberships

• The Icelandic Biological Society since 2013

• Polish Botanical Society (PTB) since 2006

• The Icelandic Natural History Society (Hið íslenska náttúrufræðifélag) since 2019 

Ph.D. students

• 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