I am an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College. Since 2007 I work with Grazyna Jasienska at the Mogielica Human Ecology Study Site in southern Poland. I am involved in many national and international research projects, also as a Principal Investigator. My main interests concentrate on the area of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), biological aging, early-life adversities, and their relationship with female reproductive history.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2396-7519
Contact: magda.klimek@uj.edu.pl
Publications
Klimek M, Entringer S, Matras A, Blukacz M, Nenko I, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G. 2023. Early-life adversities and later-life reproductive patterns in women with fully traced reproductive history. Scientific Reports, 13: 9328, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-36226-w
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2023. Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development. Nature, 615: 874–883, doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8
Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. The age at first reproduction as a potential mediator between facial fluctuating asymmetry and reproductive success in women. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181: 166-172, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24746
Ciochoń A, Apanasewicz A, Danel DP, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Ziomkiewicz A, Marcinkowska UM. Antenatal classes in the context of prenatal anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9: 5073, doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095073
Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Fedurek P, Kleisner K, Danel DP. 2022. Like father, like child? Paternal age at birth and offspring’s facial asymmetry and distinctiveness. Symmetry, 14, doi: 10.3390/sym14020344
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2021. Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. The Lancet, 398: 957-980, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01330-1
Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Blukacz M, Nenko I, Jabłońska M, Jasienska G. 2021. Inflammaging: blame the sons. Relationships between the number of sons and the level of inflammatory mediators among post-reproductive women. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175: 656-664, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24295
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2021. Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. eLife, 10: e60060, doi: 10.7554/eLife.60060
Miłkowska K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Zabłocka-Słowińska K, Jasienska G. 2021. Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42: 402-408, doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.03.002
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2021. Biomarkers of fetal conditions: finger ridge-counts, facial fluctuating asymmetry, and digit ratio (2D:4D) – are they correlated in women? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174: 224-231, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24164
Miłkowska K, Nenko I, Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G. 2020. Season of birth and biomarkers of early-life environment. American Journal of Human Biology, e23532 doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23532
Marcinkowska UM, Ziomkiewicz A, Kleisner K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Sancilio A, Jasienska G, Bribiescas RG. 2020. The hidden cost of beauty: oxidative stress and attractiveness in postmenopausal women. Scientific Reports, 10: 21970, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76627-9
NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2020. Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries: Pooled analysis of 2,182 population-based studies with 65 million participants. The Lancet, 396: 1511-1524, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6
Fischer Pedersen JK, Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Sobocki J, Christensen DL, Jasienska G. 2020. Digit ratio (2D:4D) is not related to cardiovascular diseases or their risk factors in menopausal women. American Journal of Human Biology, e23505, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23505
Rogers MP, Lee KMN, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Klein LD, Zabłocka-Słowińska K, Jasienska G, Clancy KBH. 2020. Declining ages at menarche in an agrarian rural region of Poland. American Journal of Human Biology, e23362, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23362
Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2018. Sons may be bad for maternal health at older age. New evidence for costs of reproduction in humans. The Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, gly190, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/gly190
Kuna B, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2018. Age difference between parents influences parity and number of sons. American Journal of Human Biology: e23095
Richards G, Klimek M, Jasienska G, Marcinkowska UM. 2018. Digit ratio (2D:4D) and circulating testosterone, oestradiol, and progesterone levels across the menstrual cycle. Early Human Development 117: 68-73
Marcinkowska UM, Little AC, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Klimek M, Jasienska G. 2018. Costs of reproduction are reflected in women’s faces: post-menopausal women with fewer children are perceived as more attractive, healthier and younger than women with more children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165: 589-593
Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Jasienska G. 2017. Value of digit ratio 2D:4D, a biomarker of prenatal hormone exposure, is stable across the menstrual cycle. Early Human Development 110: 21-24
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2016. Women with more feminine digit ratio (2D:4D) have higher reproductive success. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160: 549-553
Ziomkiewicz A, Sancilio A, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Jasienska G, Bribiescas RG. 2016. Evidence for the cost of reproduction in humans: women with high reproductive effort have higher levels of oxidative stress in post-reproductive years. PLoS ONE 11: e0145753
Alvarado LC, Muller MN, Thompson ME, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2015. The Paternal Provisioning Hypothesis: effects of workload and testosterone production on men’s musculature. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158: 19-35
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Colleran H, Thune I, Ellison PT, Ziomkiewicz A, Jasienska G. 2015. Digit ratio (2D:4D) does not correlate with daily 17β–estradiol and progesterone concentrations in healthy women of reproductive age. American Journal of Human Biology 27: 667-673
Puskarczyk K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Odrzywołek L, Jasienska G. 2015. Being born after your brother is not a disadvantage: Reproductive success does not depend on the sex of the preceding sibling. American Journal of Human Biology 27: 731-733
Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Alvarado LC, Jasienska G. 2014. Digit ratio (2D:4D) as an indicator of body size, testosterone concentration and number of children in human males. Annals of Human Biology 41: 518-523
Human Evolutionary and Reproductive Ecology 