M.Sc. (Environmental protection)
Maria Zachwatowicz

Prince J. Poniatowski High School in Warsaw, environmental profile.

Warsaw University, Inter-faculty Study Programme in Environmental Protection, full time, 5-year masters programme. Specialisation in Environmental Botany. Title of the masters thesis: Mistletoe Viscum album L. Selected aspects of plant biology, ecology, chorology and its distribution in the different anthropopression zones in Warsaw.Master of Science (M.Sc.) in environmental protection.

Warsaw University, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, full time, three-year bachelors programme. B.Sc. in Geography: Geographical aspects of Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development. Title of the bachelor thesis: Poland in Europe. Chosen methodological aspects of nature conservation.

Warsaw University, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies. Full time two-year masters programme. The masters thesis analysed the spatial aspects of the planning and implementation of EU Natura 2000 areas and how to integrate them into Poland's nature protection network.

Doctoral (Ph.D.) studies. The Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Warsaw University. Department of Geoecology. Four-year programme. The doctoral thesis deals with the functional and structural characteristics of the ecotones in the natural forest landscape of the Bialowieski National Park in Poland.

International European Union Socrates/Erasmus Student Exchange Programme, The Netherlands, Saxion University Ijselland Deventer, Institute of Spatial Planning and Environmental Sciences.

Scholarship awarded by the 'Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt' and the Nowicki Foundation.Internship in Germany, at Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Landscape Management.

Warsaw University, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Botany, Department of Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation.The research programme: The competition between individuals within a plant population. The verification of the individual spatial models.

Prize for academic achievements awarded by the Polish Ministry of Education and Sports.

Winner of the competition 'best graduates of Polish higher education institutions in the field of environmental sciences'. Awarded by the 'Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt' and the 'Nowicki' Foundation.