Katarzyna A. Kaszycka – Paleoanthropologist; associated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań for 40 years. She studied at the University of Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz University (M.A. in Biology), the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Master of Arts in Anthropology), and the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (PhD in Science). She completed her habilitation at Adam Mickiewicz University.

She enriched her research and teaching experience as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Lecturer at the Collège de France in Paris, as well as participating in research in South Africa. Author of publications on human evolution (including two monographs: Status of Kromdraai…, 2002, Paris: CNRS and Sexual Dimorphism of South African Australopithecus, 2009, Poznań: WN UAM) and the concept of ‘race’ in anthropology (examining the attitudes of academic communities towards human races). Member of the team of authors of two textbooks: Biology. Textbook, Volume 4 (High School, extended scope), 2005, Warsaw: WS PWN and Biology. Unity and Diversity, 2008, Warsaw: WS PWN. For 25 years she served as editorial secretary of Przegląd Anthropologiczny–Anthropological Review – the official scientific journal of the Polish Anthropological Society.

For 10 years she has been Chairwoman of the Chapter of the Professor Jan Strzałko Award of the Polish Society for Human and Evolutionary Sciences.