ALEKSANDER WIACZESŁAW DEMIASZKIEWICZEditorial Council
Professor, Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Date of birth: 18 february 1952
Education:
1977 – surgeon of veterinary medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW
1977-1979 – practice veterinarian medicine in Białowieża (Poland)
1979-1983 – post-graduate student of W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology PAS, Warsaw
1984 – PhD, W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology PAS, Warsaw
1996 – doctor habilitate of veterinary sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW
2001 – professor, W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology PAS, Warsaw
Profesional experience:
1991-1994 – general secretary of Polish Parasitological Society
1993-2015 – member of Scientific Council of Institute of Parasitology
2000-2008 – member of Scientific Council of Warsaw Zoological Garden
1999-2015 – scientific director of W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology PAS
2003-2015 – head of the Laboratory of Parasitoses of Wild Animals
2004-2015 – member of Comittee of Parasitology of Polish Academy of Sciences
2013-2015 – section editor of „Annals of Parasitology”
Awards:
1984 – Diploma PhD with honours
1988 – Silver Cross of Merit
2001 – Gold Cross of Merit
2008 – Honorable membership of All-Russian Helmintological Society of Russian Academy of Sciences
Scientific interest:
Investigations on the parasites of the European bison, cervids and beavers, their distribution, morphology, systematic, biology, differential diagnosis and also on the epidemiology, patology, and treatment of parasitoses provoked by them. The current topics of research are gastrointestinal nematodes from the family Trichostrongylidae, lung nematodes from the family Protostrongylidae and tissue nematodes from subfamily Onchocercinae. Furthermore the dispersion of ashworthiosis of domestic and wild ruminants, the epidemiology of elaphostrongylosis of Cervidae and the threat creates for domestical animals and people are investigated. Our research also concerns monitoring the status of helminth infections in the European bison in the Białowieza Forest and in cervids under farm breeding conditions.
Achievements:
- elaboration of the helminth fauna of Cervidae in Poland;
- investigations of the forming of the helminth fauna of the European bison during 30 years of the restitution of this species;
- investigations on species composition, morphology and differential diagnosis of tissue nematodes from the subfamily Onchocercidae in wild and domestic ruminants in Poland;
- description of morphology of eggs, invasive larvae, and adults of the nematode Ashworthius sidemi;
- elaboration of the helminth fauna of beavers in Poland;
- statement of the endangerment of domestic animals, by parasitoses of wildlifre (parafasciolopsosis, elaphostrongylosis, ashworthiosis);
- description of elaphostrongylosis in domestic ruminants;
- elaboration of the prevalence and distribution of nematodes Dirofilaria repens in dogs in Poland.
Publications:
Totally over 300 scientific publications, of which 1 monograph, 152.original papers, and over 150 congress abstracts.
Telefon: (48) 22 6206225
E-mail: aldem@twarda.pan.pl
Home address: ul. Nowolipki 32 m.33, Warsaw, 01-019, Poland
Official adress: W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, Warsaw, 00-818 Poland