Academic Achievements

• 2024 – PhD
  • PhD of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Warsaw
  • PhD thesis: "Palaeoecology of the Middle Devonian reef communities of the Mader Basin (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)"
• 2019 – Master degree
  • Master’s degree at Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, specialization in stratigraphy and paleontology
  • Master thesis: "Trilobites, microfacies and isotope record of Furongian (upper Cambrian) carbonates in selected logs from the Łeba Elevation, northern Poland"
• 2017 – Bachelor Degree
  • University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology
  • Bachelor thesis: "The origins of eukaryotes and multicellularity"

Professional Experience

• From 2024 – Jagiellonian University; Position: Assistant Professor with a PhD
• 2019-2024 – Univeristy of Warsaw, Principal investigator in the research project

Awards and Honors

• Jagiellonian University award for teaching excellence in the 2024/2025 academic year
• Scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements in the academic year 2018/19
• Scholarschip of the Capital City of Warsaw for outstanding achievements in the academic year 2018/19

Scientific Interests

• Paleontology and Paleobiology
• Paleoecology
• Carbonate sedimentology

Current Research

• Devonian reef ecosystems of Morocco
• Paleoecology of the Paleozoic reef assemblages
• Record of the Cambrian environmental changes in Baltica

Selected Scientific Publications

• Zatoń, M., Gorzelak, P., Berkowski, B., Zapalski, M. K., Jakubowicz, M., Salamon, M. A., Kershaw, S., Król, J. J. & Majchrzyk, A., 2025. Lower Devonian crinoid pluricolumnals from Morocco are severely infested by sclerobionts: evidence for a parasitic outbreak on the shelf of northern Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 148: 13–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.06.024
• Majchrzyk, A., Jakubowicz, M., Berkowski, B., Król, J. J., Zatoń, M. & Zapalski, M. K., 2024. Modern-type reef in ancient time - Palaeoecology of a Middle Devonian coral community from Madène el Mrakib (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 633: 111876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111876
• Zatoń, M., Jakubowicz, M., Zapalski, M. K., Majchrzyk, A., Berkowski, B. & Belka, Z., 2023. The earliest record of a sclerobiont assemblage from a methane-seep ecosystem (upper Silurian, Morocco). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 628: 111777. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111777
• Majchrzyk, A., Jakubowicz, M., Bongaerts, P. & Zapalski, M. K., 2023. Different times, similar mechanism? Convergent patterns in light-induced phenotypic plasticity in Devonian and modern corals. Coral Reefs, 42: 893–903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02394-4
• Majchrzyk, A., Jakubowicz, M., Berkowski, B., Bongaerts, P. & Zapalski, M. K., 2022. In the shadow of a giant reef: Palaeoecology of mesophotic coral communities from the Givetian of Anti-Atlas (Morocco). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 602: 111177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111177

International Experience

• 2025 – Belgium; Studying the fossil coral collections of the University of Liège
• 2024-2022, 2020-2019, 2017, 2025 – Fieldwork in Morocco
• 2024 – Belgium; Fieldwork in Belgium
• 2023 – Switzerland; Studying the fossil coral collections of the Paleontological Musuem of Univeristy of Zurich
• 2022 – Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen (Germany); Participation in the "International Course on Carbonate Microfacies"
• 2021 – Brussels (Belgium); Studying the fossil coral collections of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
• 2016 – Vienna (Austria); Studying the paleontological collections of the Natural History Musuem

Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences

• Life and Planet, London, 2025 – Oral presentation
• European Coral Reef Symposium, Naples, 2024 – Oral presentation
• 4th Scientific Conference "Climate change in the geological past", Warsaw, 2023 – Oral presentation
• Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society, Chęciny, 2023 – Oral presentation
• Geological Society of America Connects, Denver, 2022 – Oral presentation
• International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Palaeontology, Vilnius (online), 2021 – Oral presentation
• 20th Czech – Polish – Slovak Paleontological Conference, Chęciny, 2019 – Poster presentation; Participation in organization
• 5th Young Natural History Scientists Meeting, Paris, 2018 – Oral presentation
• 9th Conference "Young in Paleontology", Warsaw, 2018 – Organization

Membership in Scientific Organizations

Member of the Council on Research and Education of the Holly Cross Mountains UNESCO Geopark