The list below contains potential supervisors and research topics offered for the 2023/24 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 10 October 2023.

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

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: Present-day stress and strain analysis 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: Tomasz Gruszczyński, PhD, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Piotr Szrek, D.Sc. Assoc. Prof., 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

Subsidiary supervisor: Sylwester Salwa, PhD , e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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

Research interests: sedimentology, isotope geochemistry (C, O, S, N), facies analysis, sequence stratigraphy

Field work areas: The Holy Cross Mountains, Małopolska Block

PhD topic #1:Depositional environment and geochemical conditions in the Caledonian foredeep basin preserved in early-diagenetic and sedimentary carbonates and (C, O, S) isotope signature of Silurian mudrocks in SE Poland

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PhD topic #2: Facies architecture, depositional environments and carbon isotope signature of Triassic carbonate platform in the Germanic Basin of SE Poland

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