The list below contains potential supervisors and research topics offered for the 2022/23 recruitment to the Geoplanet Doctoral School at PGI-NRI.

The candidate should select a research topic from the list below and contact with a potential supervisor prior to sending the application.

The deadline for applying is 8 November 2022 6 December 2022.


Jacek Grabowski, D.Sc. Assoc. Prof., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: palaeomagnetism, magnetic stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, palaeoclimate

PhD topic: Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Upper Jurassic in the High-Tatric succession, Tatra Mts: isotope stratigraphy (δ13C), gamma ray spectrometry and magnetic susceptibility


Anna Hrynowiecka, D.Sc. Assoc. Prof., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: palynology, Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoecology, reconstruction of climate and environmental changes, stratigraphy,

PhD topic #1: Holocene history of the Śnieżnik Massif (Sudetes Mts., SW Poland) vegetation and climate based on a palynological analysis of three peat bogs sediments

PhD topic #2: Paleoreconstruction of Late Glacial and Holocene in the vicinity of Lake Hańcza (Suwałki Lakeland, NE Poland) - case study: two peat bogs - two different images of vegetation changes


Marek Jarosiński, D.Sc. Assoc. Prof., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: tectonics, geodynamics, geomechanics, geophysics

PhD topic: Quantitative analysis of stress and strain in the earth’s crust (in Poland)

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Jerzy Nawrocki, Professor, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: palaeomagnetism, petrophysics, isotope geology

Field work areas: Poland, Spitsbergen, Ukraine, West Antarctica, Mexico, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Czechia

PhD topic #1: Structural geology and deformation stages of volcanogenic sequences from central part of King George Island (West Antarctica)

Co-supervisor: Marek Jarosiński, D.Sc. Assoc. Prof., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

PhD topic #2: The petro- and paleomagnetic record in the Polish MIS-6 loess as the basis of its chronostratigraphic correlation and climate and environment reconstruction


Tatiana Solovey, D.Sc. Assoc. Prof., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: wetlands hydrology, remote sensing

PhD topic: Assessing the utility of satellite data from GRACE gravity missions and others to monitoring changes in groundwater storage

Subsidiary supervisor: dr Tomasz Gruszczyński, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Piotr Szrek, D.Sc., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: paleontology, stratigraphy, geochronology

PhD topic: Record of the terrestrial and marginal-marine environments in the Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains on the base of selected elements of the fossil record


Maria I. Waksmundzka, D.Sc., e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Research interests: Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Analysis of Carboniferous Sedimentary Basins, Reservoir Geology (hydrocarbons, coal, bauxites), Integrated Interpretation of Geological and Geophysical Data from Boreholes

PhD topic: Depositional environments, stratigraphy and reservoir quality of the Carboniferous deposits in western Poland and the Baltic Sea