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THANKS FOR VISITING! The main goal behind this website is to share my research updates and publications covering various questions in hard tissue biology.
I am a Polish-Australian researcher who hails from the UK. I am currently an ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer (Level C) at the Australian National University in Canberra where I moved to from London in 2016. I have expertise in human bone and tooth biology, but am generally interested in skeletal biology of any living or extinct vertebrate. I think it is extraordinary that tough tissue can be very metabolically active! I want to understand human biology in a social framework. Humans today have extremely fragile bone. Outside of genetics, this poor bone quality is determined by a series of environmental and social factors. I study these in past and modern populations to describe skeletal plasticity in different contexts so that we can predict and improve human bone health in the future. I mainly do this through studying the micro-anatomy and cell structures of bones and teeth in humans and animal models. |
BRIEF BIO
2021-current: Head of Discipline, Biological Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia
2020-ongoing: Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Biological Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia
2019-2022: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellow, Australian National University, Australia
2019-2023: Treasurer, Australasian Society for Human Biology, Australia
2016-2019: Lecturer (Level B) in Biological Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia
2016-ongoing: Honorary Research Associate, University of Kent, UK
2015-2016: Research Assistant, Williams & Bassett Molecular Endocrinology Group, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, UK
2014: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2014: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), University of Kent, UK
2014: Lecturer in Biological Anthropology (fixed-term), University of Kent, UK
2014: PhD in Biological Anthropology, Mahoney Lab, Human Osteology Lab, University of Kent, UK
2012-2014: Osteologist, Kent Osteological Research and Analysis, UK
2010-2013: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kent, UK
2010: Bachelor of Science 1st Class Hons, University of Kent, UK
2009-2012: Assistant Osteologist, Kent Osteological Research and Analysis, UK
2008-2013: Laboratory Demonstrator, University of Kent, UK
2021-current: Head of Discipline, Biological Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia
2020-ongoing: Senior Lecturer (Level C) in Biological Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia
2019-2022: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Australian Research Council (ARC) Fellow, Australian National University, Australia
2019-2023: Treasurer, Australasian Society for Human Biology, Australia
2016-2019: Lecturer (Level B) in Biological Anthropology, Australian National University, Australia
2016-ongoing: Honorary Research Associate, University of Kent, UK
2015-2016: Research Assistant, Williams & Bassett Molecular Endocrinology Group, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, UK
2014: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2014: Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), University of Kent, UK
2014: Lecturer in Biological Anthropology (fixed-term), University of Kent, UK
2014: PhD in Biological Anthropology, Mahoney Lab, Human Osteology Lab, University of Kent, UK
2012-2014: Osteologist, Kent Osteological Research and Analysis, UK
2010-2013: Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kent, UK
2010: Bachelor of Science 1st Class Hons, University of Kent, UK
2009-2012: Assistant Osteologist, Kent Osteological Research and Analysis, UK
2008-2013: Laboratory Demonstrator, University of Kent, UK