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Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Bartosz Baran

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bartosz.m.baran@gmail.com

Bartosz is an Assistant Professor at the MCLL, affiliated with the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Jagiellonian University. He holds a Master's degree in Biotechnology and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Silesia in Katowice. His doctoral dissertation (defended in 2023) concerned mechanisms of geometric cognition in insects. Bartosz is a co-author of papers published in Animal Cognition, PLOS One, Insects, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal of Pest Science, Open Life Sciences, Molecules, Zoomorphology, Scientific Reports, European Journal of Entomology, Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). He led the project funded by the Diamond Grant V programme and was awarded the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for academic excellence. He is a corresponding member of the Polish Ethological Society and a longtime co-organizer of Brain Awareness Week celebrations in Katowice. He collaborates with Lars Chittka's team (Queen Mary University of London).


Bartosz's post of Assistant Professor (in the Polish educational system called Adiunkt) in the MCLL is funded by the Strategic Programme Excellence Initiative at Jagiellonian University. In our lab, he is involved in investigating cognition of humans and insects.

Co-investigator in Projects:

Selected publications:

Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues
Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Rádai, Z., Francikowski, J., & Hohol, M. (2023). Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues. Animal Cognition, 23, 755–770. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01712-7
Raw data to: Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues
Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Radai, Z., Francikowski, J., & Hohol, M. (2022). Geometry-based navigation in the dark: Layout symmetry facilitates spatial learning in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus, in the absence of visual cues. Animal Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01712-7 (Raw data available at Open Science Framework)
Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees
Gibbons, M., Versace, E., Crump, A., Baran, B., & Chittka, L. (2022). Motivational trade-offs and modulation of nociception in bumblebees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(31), e2205821119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205821119
Ból bzyczenia: Trzmiele czują ból, są gotowe ryzykować
Baran, B. (2022). Ból bzyczenia: Trzmiele czują ból, są gotowe ryzykować. Tygodnik Powszechny, 32(3813), 58–60.
Does spatial navigation have a blind-spot? Visiocentrism is not enough to explain the navigational behavior comprehensively
Hohol, M., Baran, B., Krzyżowski, M., Francikowski, J. (2017). Does spatial navigation have a blind-spot? Visiocentrism is not enough to explain the navigational behavior comprehensively. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(154). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00154
MCLL is funded by the Excellence Initiative – Jagiellonian University within the Priority Research Area Society of the Future
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