M.Sc. Katarzyna Malinowska

Current Projects

1. Population-level consequences of social information use: a semi-experimental approach (National Science Centre, grant no. 2018/29/B/NZ8/00066, Co-Investigator)

Completed Projects

1.  The influence of light in the nest habitat on eggshell coloration in Great Tit Parus major (MSc project)
2. Corvids in the city of Poznań: concentration sites and routes of evening flight on roots (project carried out with the Ornithological Section of Natural Sciences Club AMU)
3. Population status, threats and conservation of Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) (BSc project)
4. In-silico simulation of evolution in terrestrial and water environments (BSc project)

Career History

• 2020 – to date: PhD student (AMU)
• 2020: MSc in biology (AMU)
• 2019: BSc in environmental protection, specialization: protection of terrestrial environments (AMU)
• 2017: BSc in bioinformatics. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU) and Poznań University of Technology (PUT)

Workshops & Courses

2024

Classes

1. Statistical Methods in Environmental Protection
2. Ecological modelling
3. Monitoring of wildlife populations

2023

Malinowska, K., Markowska, K., & Kuczyński, L. 2023. Making virtual species less virtual by reverse engineering of spatiotemporal ecological models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(9): 2376–2389. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14176

Malinowska, K., Szala, K., Podkowa, P., Surmacki A. 2023. Effect of light intensity in the nest site on eggshell pigmentation in a hole-nesting passerine. Scientific Reports 13, 9764. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36658-4

2020

Malinowska K., Podkowa P., Surmacki A. 2020. „Bogatki w świetle badań”. Birds – quarterly magazine of the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP) 1/20. 11-13.

2019

Podkowa P., Malinowska K., Surmacki A. 2019. Light affects parental provisioning behaviour in a cavity-nesting Passerine. Journal of Avian Biology, 50(11), https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02254

2023

• 14th European Ornithologists’ Union Congress, Lund, Sweden,  21 – 25.08. 2023, poster “How to make virtual species less virtual?” – Katarzyna Malinowska, Katarzyna Markowska, Lechosław Kuczyński

2022

• 13th European Ornithologists’ Union Congress, Giessen (online),  15. 03. 2022, poster ” A process-driven approach to identify causes of population changes” – Katarzyna Malinowska, Katarzyna Markowska, Lechosław Kuczyński
• Polish Evolutionary Conference, Toruń, 19.09 – 21.09.2022, presentation “Making virtual species less virtual by reverse engineering of spatiotemporal ecological models” – Katarzyna Malinowska, Katarzyna Markowska, Lechosław Kuczyński
• 3rd Symposium of Young Ornithogists, Łódź, 30.09 – 2.10.2022, presentation “The influence of light in the nest habitat on eggshell pigmentation in the Great Tit (Parus major) – Katarzyna Malinowska, Klaudia Szala, Paweł Podkowa, Adrian Surmacki
• Seminars on Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour, Poznań, 30.11.2022, presentation “Making virtual species less virtual by reverse engineering of spatiotemporal ecological models” – Katarzyna Malinowska

2021

• The International Conference of Centenary of Natural Sciences Club of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (online), presentation “The influence of light in the nest habitat on eggshell pigmentation in the Great Tit (Parus major)” (Best Speech Award)
• Doctoral Forum (online), presentation “How biotic interactions shape population dynamics in birds”
• Young Modellers in Ecology (online), presentation “How to quantify causes of population changes?”
  

2019

• 12th European Ornithologists’ Union Congress, Cluj – Napoca, presentation ”The insight in daylight effect on eggshell spotting patterns and coloration in cavity nesting birds.”
• Vth International Conference on Research and Education in Poznań, poster “Corvids in Poznań: concentration sites and routes of evening flights on roots – preliminary results” (Honourable mention)

2018

• 2nd Symposium of Young Ornithogists, Rogów, presentation “The influence of light on the duration of the development period of the Great Tit (Parus major) in the nest box”

External Activities

2017 – 2020: Chairman of the Ornithological Section of the Natural Sciences Club AMU