Marek Konarzewski

Marek Konarzewski (; born 18 June 1961 in Białystok) – professor of biology, popular-science author, faculty member at the University of Białystok, and corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since October 2022, President-Elect of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Positions Konarzewski is a professor at the Department of Evolutionary and Physiological Ecology, University of Białystok, and at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. In 1991–1993 he was a post-doc researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), at the lab of the prominent American biologist, geographer, and historian Jared M. Diamond. Since 2010 he has been a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2008–2013 he held the post of Minister-Counselor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland to the United States of America. On 20 October 2022, he was elected by the General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences to become the new President of the Academy for the 2023–2026 term (and will assume the office upon being appointed by the Prime Minister).

Research Achievements Konarzewski's research work focuses on physiological ecology and the emerging field of evolutionary physiology (of birds and mammals).

Science Communication Konarzewski has also published numerous popular-science articles, the popular-science book Na początku był głód ["In the Beginning There Was Famine"], two photographic albums showcasing two of Poland's most outstanding natural areas (the Biebrza Valley and the Knyszyn Forest), and a Polish translation of Jared M. Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel. the silver Cross of Merit (2004), an honorary doctorate from the Poznań University of Medical Sciences (2013), the Research Prize of Division II of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2014).