Jan Marek Wójcik
- Academic title:
- Professor
- Position:
- Professor
- Unit:
- Genetics and Evolution — leader
- Professor: 2004
- Habilitation Thesis: 1999, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków
- PhD: 1989, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Kraków
- Msc: 1981, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Kraków
The main research interests of J. M. Wójcik include population genetics and evolution of mammals. His ongoing research projects are focused on DNA diversity and phylogeography of some species of mammals.
- 2008 - 3-month research visit to the Department of Biology, University of York, UK
- 1990-1991 - 8-month post-doctoral fellowship of the British Council to the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, UK
- 1988 - 1-month training and research visit to Institute d'Ecologie, Faculte des Sciences, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
- 1987 - 1-month training and research visit to Museo National de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
- 2013-2016: Phylogeography and population genomics of the red fox, Vulpes vulpes: Project leader. Project financed by the National Science Centre, Poland
- 2011-2014: Phylogeography and genetic diversity of two species of voles (Microtus) in Poland: Project leader. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
- 2008-2010: Genetic (DNA barcoding) i microhistological analysis of European bison diet and its impact on tree stands of Białowieża Forest: Project executor. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
- 2007-2010: Polymorphism of MHC genes in the European bison Bison bonasus: mechanisms of its maintenance and adaptive significance: Project executor. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
- 2006-2009: Hybrid male sterility in house mice (Mus musculus): Project leader. Project financed by the Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education
- 1992-1995: Genetic diversity in populations of the common shrew (Sorex araneus L.): Project leader. Project financed by the State Committee for Scientific Research
- Member of the Committee on Environmental and Evolutionary Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2016)
- Member of the Committee on Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2007-2015)
- Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Białowieża National Park (since 2007)
- Member of the Committee on Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1999-2004)
- Member of the International Sorex araneus Cytogenetics Committee (since 1990, chairman 1999-2002)
- 1999 - Award of the Department of Biological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for the scientific book: "Evolution of Shrews" J.M. Wójcik & M. Wolsan, eds - Mammal Research Institute, Białowieża: 1- 458.)
- 1994 - Award of the Department of Biological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (for the publication: "Chromosome races of the common shrew Sorex araneus in Poland: a model of karyotype evolution" - Acta Theriologica 38: 315-338.)