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In the years 2016-2022, she managed a research grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the program „Diamond Grant”, regarding the use of mineral dyes among the Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic and Neolithic communities in areas from the Levant to the Carpathian Basin. Currently she is a co-leader in the E-RIHS project regarding pigments from the Orońsko flint mine. She is employed at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University as an assistant.

Scientific interests

• use of mineral pigments by Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic and Neolithic societies;
• application of laboratory methods (mainly SEM-EDS) in archaeology;
• cultural changes at the turn of the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic in the Near East.

Master theses

• (2019) „Legal protection of monuments in selected Arab countries (Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon)” at the Institute of Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, supervisor: prof. P. Siwiec;
• (2016) „ Ochre in the Near East and Anatolia in the Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic”, at the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, supervisor: prof. P. Valde-Nowak.

PhD thesis

• (2022) „Usage of ochre on the verge of Neolithisation from Levant to the Carpathian Basin”, thesis written and defended at Jagiellonian University, supervisor: prof. P. Valde-Nowak, reviewers: prof. P. Bogucki (Princeton University), prof. A. Marciniak (Adam Mickiewicz University).

Selected published works

1) 2023 The usage of ochre at the verge of Neolithisation from the Near East to the Carpathian Basin, wydawnictwo Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.;

2) 2022 Hučivá Cave: a Magdalenian hunting camp in the Tatra Mountains, Antiquity, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.60.;

coauthor with: P. Valde-Nowak, M. Baca, M. Cieśla, A. Kraszewska, A. Lemanik, A. Nadachowski, D. Popović, J. Skłucki, M. Sojak,

3) 2022 HLC Project 2017: preliminary report on the Jagiellonian University excavations in Southern Jordan, Annual of the Department of Antiquities in Jordan, vol. 60, p. 227-247;

coauthor with: P. Kołodziejczyk, M. Nowak, M. Wasilewski, J. Karmowski, M. Czarnowicz, A. Brzeska-Pasek, J. Zakrzeńska, B. Witkowska;

4) 2021 Problematyka czaszek w kontekstach wczesnoneolitycznych na terenach Lewantu i Anatolii, [in:] eds. A. Krzpiet, S. Medoń, Memento mori - wątki tanatologiczne w humanistyce i naukach społecznych, Wydawnictwo Rys, Poznań, p. 41-54;

5) 2021 Cultural versus legal interpretations of cultural heritage: discussion on the example of Jordan, [in:] eds. O. Barbasiewicz, M. Lipa, K. Rak, International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, vol. 13 „Historical and Collective Memory in the Middle and Far East”, Peter Lang, Berlin/Bern/Brussels/New York/Oxford/Warszawa/Wien, p. 105-114;

6) 2021 Szamani epoki kamienia a praktyki medyczne, [in:] eds. B. Płonka-Syroka, M. Dąsal, Doświadczenie choroby w perspektywie badań interdyscyplinarnych, vol. 8, „Ciało, choroby i praktyki lecznicze w różnych kulturach świata”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Medycznego im. Piastów Śląskich we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, p. 143-154;

7) 2020 Zabytki i ich ochrona w świetle prawodawstwa Libanu na podstawie przepisów prawnych z lat 1926-2008, SDirect 24, Scientific Journal Junior 1/2020, p. 74-90, ISSN 2545-0697.