On 5 October 2019, Minister of Environment Henryk Kowalczyk appointed Ph.D. Eng. Mateusz Damrat as new Director of the Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute. New assignments were made also to other managerial positions.

Mr. Mateusz Damrat received his M.Sc. in geology from the Institute of Geological Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Cracow and an Engineer's degree in the field of geology and mining majoring in petroleum geology from the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. He obtained his doctoral degree in geology (Ph. D) at the Institute of Geological Sciences at Jagiellonian University in Cracow in collaboration with the Institute of Oceanography of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot.

From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Damrat participated in projects financed by the National Science Centre (Poland) and Academy of Finland. From 2014 to the present he has been employed by the Polish Geological Institute – NRI in Marine Geology Branch in Gdańsk as a specialist in the Marine Geology Program. In that capacity he performed numerous tasks for the Polish Geological Survey and managed research and commercial projects. In 2016, he won the Krzysztof Beres Scholarschip granted by the Polish Geological Society. As a representative of PGI-NRI, he participated in the implementation of the geological component of the EMODnet Project, the reporting session of the Marine Geology Expert Group (MGEG) of the EuroGeoSurveys and works of the Working Group on the Effects of Extraction of Marine Sediments on the Marine Ecosystem (WGEXT) of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). Mateusz Damrat is also a long-time member of the Polish Geological Society.

Appointment of Ph.D. Eng. Mateusz Damrat as Director of the Polish Geological Institute. Left to right: Secretary of State – Chief National Geologist Piotr Dziadzio, Mateusz Damrat and Minister of Environment Henryk Kowalczyk. Photo: courtesy of the Ministry of Environment

On 4 October 2019, Minister of Environment Henryk Kowalczyk appointed two new deputy directors of the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute:

• Dr. Piotr Szrek as Deputy Director for Research and Development; and
• Zofia Zaruska, M.Sc., as Deputy Director for Administrative and Economic Affairs.
  
  

On 9 October 2019, Minister of the Environment Henryk Kowalczyk appointed Dr. Andrzej Głuszyński as Deputy Director for PGI-NRI Geological Survey.