Tel: +48 713759222 | Mail: jakub.kierczak@uwr.edu.pl
Curriculum vitae /Życiorys naukowy/
I am a researcher dealing with the distribution and mobility of metallic elements in natural and anthropogenic soils and in their substrate
Areas of expertise
Earth and environmental sciences, environmental mineralogy and geochemistry, soil pollution, petrographic studies of rocks and synthetic materials, archaeometry
Contact info
Office Address: Pl. M. Borna 9, 50-204 Wrocław, Poland, tel (+48)713759223Email: jakub.kierczak@uwr.edu.pl
Work experience
- Associate Professor
- Assistant Professor
- Research Assistant
University of Wrocław, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management, Institute of Geological Sciences | April 2018 - present
University of Wrocław, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management, Institute of Geological Sciences | March 2009 - March 2018
University of Wrocław, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management, Institute of Geological Sciences | March 2008 - February 2009
Education
- UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW, POLAND | Postdoctoral degree | December 2015
- UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES, FRANCE and UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW, POLAND | PhD degree | September 2003 - October 2007
- UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW, POLAND | MSc degree| September 2001 - June 2003
- UNIVERSITY OF WROCŁAW, POLAND | BSc degree| September 1998 - June 2001
Discipline: Earth sciences, geology
Title of the Achievement: "Mobility of metallic elements bounded in smelting slags and bottom ashes: a mineralogical and geochemical approach"
Discipline: geology, materials and minerals.
Dissertation prepared in «co-direction» between Laboratory of Geology HydrASA UMR CNRS 6532, University of Limoges, France, and Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Wrocław, Poland.
Title of the dissertation: “Solid speciation of Ni and Cr at an abandoned industrial site used for agriculture Szklary, Poland”.
Discipline: geology, speciality: mineralogy and petrology
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences.
Title of the MSc thesis: “Iron and Mg minerals in the diorites of the Niemcza Zone, (southwestern Poland)".
Discipline: geology.
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences.
Scientific internships and experience placements
- University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal | May 2018
- Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany | December 2016
- University Paris-Sud, France | September 2015
- University of Limoges, France | April 2013
- University of Limoges, France | February 2011
- Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic | September 2010
- University of Limoges, France | June 2009
Teaching activities during a week's stay under the Erasmus+ program at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Vila Real, Portugal).
Invited lecturer under the PhD-program Landscape Archaeology and Architecture (LAA) of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS). The purpose of these lectures was to bring junior researchers and established scientists together in order to facilitate and encourage the scientific exchange.
Invited professor at the Département des Sciences de la Terre UMR8148 GEOPS - University Paris Sud. One-month stay aimed at cooperation in the Ni isotope analyzes of ultramafic soils.
Teaching activities as an invited lecturer for PhD students at the Universite de Limoges, École Doctorale n° 523 Gay Lussac – Sciences pour l’Environnement. Lectures aiming at the use of Pb isotopes to trace sources of contamination in the soils.
Invited Associate Professor at the Universite de Limoges, France. One-month stay aimed at cooperation in the analysis of the impact of historical metallurgical slags on adjacent soils.
Scholarship of the Polish and Czech Republic Ministry of Science, a one-month stay at Charles University in Prague, Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Natural Resources, Faculty of Science, Czech Republic. Conducting research as part of the project entitled: “Sources of lead contamination of soils from industrialized areas”.
Invited Associate Professor at the Universite de Limoges, France. One-month stay aimed at cooperation in the analysis of the impact of historical metallurgical slags on soils and sediments.
Memberships and Service
- University of Wrocław, Poland
- Mineralogical Society of Poland
Chairman of the Committee for the employment of academic teachers at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management | December 2020 - present.
Chairman of the Earth and Environmental Science Discipline Council | September 2019 - August 2020.
Deputy Dean for student affairs at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management| September 2016 - August 2020.
President of the Mineralogical Society of Poland | January 2021 - present
Board Member of the Mineralogical Society of Poland | January 2017 - December 2020
Member of the Mineralogical Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2017 - present