email: stolacy@twarda.pan.pl
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A paleobiologist specializing in the study of biomineralization structures and processes, using both modern and fossil scleractinian corals (Scleractinia), including shallow-water and deep-water species, as model organisms. He is the author of a new model of coral skeletal growth, validated through isotopic labeling experiments. His research demonstrated that reef development during the Late Triassic (approximately 220 million years ago) was driven by photosymbiosis and that scleractinian corals have Paleozoic evolutionary origins dating back approximately 425 million years. He developed the concept of the crystallographic vital effect and described the first corals with an alternative skeletal mineralogy. He has served as a Visiting Professor at EPFL (Switzerland) and is President of the Fossil Coral and Reef Society.
Research area: biomineralization, paleoproteomics, origin and evolution of scleractinian corals.
Scientific achievements:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0994-6823
https://www.paleo.pan.pl/pl/Stolarski.html
Research infrastructure used:
https://www.paleo.pan.pl/dzial-badawczy/zespoly-badawcze/biominlab.html
https://www.paleo.pan.pl/dzial-badawczy/laboratoria-badawcze.html