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Maria is a part-time research associate in the ERC Advanced Grant Scholars, Animals, Images, Geographies, and the Arts: De-exoticizing Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Period (SAIGA) project, supervised by prof. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec. She is also a Wenner Gren Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Prior to starting in Warsaw, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at the University of Uppsala, as well as a visiting fellow at the University of Kyoto. She gained her PhD from the University of Oxford, where she completed a thesis titled ‘Transnational Networks of Knowledge in the Enlightenment: The Case of József Fogarasi Pap c.1740-1790’.
As part of the SAIGA project, she will investigate the the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century correspondence and specimens on Eastern European and Siberian fauna between Uppsala University naturalists Carl Linnaeus and Carl Peter Thunberg and the explorers Johan Peter Falk and Peter Simon Pallas.