Academic Achievements

• 2024 – University Professor at the Jagiellonian University
• 2023 – Habilitation
  • Jagiellonian University, field of Environmental Sciences, discipline of Earth Sciences, dicipline of geology
  • Habilitation work: „Diagenesis and porosity generation in siliceous spiculites: Example from the Permian Tempelfjorden Group in central Spitsbergen and Loppa High, Barents Sea”
• 2012 – Ph.D.
  • Jagiellonian University, discipline of Earth Sciences, dicipline of geology
  • Dissertation: „Origin of high-frequency depositional cycles in the Muschelkalk of southern Poland”
• 2007 – M.Sc.
  • Jagiellonian University, The Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Department of Sedimentology and Paleoenvironmental Analysis 
  • Thesis: „Dynamic stratigraphy of the Karchowice Beds in Upper Silesia region, Lower Muschelkalk”

Professional Experience

• Since 2024 – Professor at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University
• 2020 – recent – adiunct, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University
• 2018 – recent – head of one person geological company ‘Michał Matysik Geoconsulting’ (consulting in carbonate reservoir sedimentology), Kraków
• 2017–2020 – postdoc, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University

Awards and Honours

• Ludwik Zejszner Scientific Award for the best paper in Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae in 2016 (Matysik, 2016). The Main Board of the Polish Geological Society, Kraków, 05.2018
• Award for outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 10.2012
• Award for scientific achievements in 2010, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 12.2011
• Award for scientific achievements in 2009, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 10.2010

Scientific Interests

• Sedimentology
• Sequence stratigraphy
• Cyclostratigraphy
• Synsedimentary tectonics
• Diagenesis
• Geochemistry of sedimentary rocks
• Modern depositional and diagenetic environments
• Characterization of reservoir rocks

Current Research

• modern carbonate sediments in Mexico, Bahamas and Mediterranean Sea
• depositional and diagenetic history of Middle Triassic marine carbonates (Rot and Muschelkalk) in Poland
• origin of hydrothermal veins, ore-bearing dolomite and lead-zinc ores in the Cracov-Silesia region

Selected Scientific Publications

• Ryczkowska, I. & Matysik, M., 2025. Multistage selective diagenesis increasing poro-perm properties of Anisian sponge-microbial-coral patch reefs and adjacent facies in the Muschelkalk of Upper Silesia, Southern Poland. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 171: 107174. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107174
• Hodgskiss, M., Roberts, N., Matysik, M., Paiste, P., Rameil, N., Hammer, E., Pedersen, J. H., Brunstad, H. & Lepland, A., 2024. Time-calibration of carbonate diagenesis and regional tectonism in the Norwegian Barents Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 165: 106892. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106892
• Neuweiler, F., Kershaw, S., Boulvain, F., Matysik, M., Sendino, C., McMenamin, M. & Munnecke, A., 2023. Keratose sponges in ancient carbonates: a problem of interpretation. Sedimentology, 70: 927–969. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/sed.13059
• Matysik, M., Stachacz, M., Knaust, D. & Whitehouse, M. J., 2022. Geochemistry, ichnology, and sedimentology of omission levels in Middle Triassic (Muschelkalk) platform carbonates of the Germanic Basin (southern Poland). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 585: 110732. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110732
• Matysik, M., Stemmerik, L., Olaussen, S., Rameil, N., Gianotten, I. P. & Brunstad, H., 2021. Cherts, spiculites, and collapse breccias - Porosity generation in upper Permian reservoir rocks, Gohta discovery, Loppa High, south-western Barents Sea. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 128: 105043. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105043

International Experience

• 2016-2017 – postdoc and scientific employee, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2014-2016 – postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2013 – postdoc, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences

• SEPM Congress, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2024 – oral presentation and poster session 
• 14th Symposium of the International Fossil Coral and Reef Society (IFCRS), 2023 – organization of conference
• 16th Bathurst Meeting, Mallorca, Spain, 2019 – poster session
• Polish Sedymentological Conference POKOS 7, Góra Św. Anny, Poland, 2018 – organization of 2 field excursions
• 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Kraków, Poland, 2015 – oral presentation and organization of field excursion
• 10th Meeting of the Saudi Society for Geosciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2013 – oral presentation 
• SEPM-CES-GV (Sektion Sedimentologie) SEDIMENT2010, Potsdam, Germany, 2010 – poster session 
• 80th Meeting of Polish Geological Society, Szczecin, Poland, 2010 – poster session 
• 6th Annual Conference of SEPM-CES SEDIMENT 2009, Kraków, Poland, 2009 – organization of field excursion
• First Polish Geological Congress, Kraków, Poland, 2009 – oral presentation 
• Pan European Correlation of the Epicontinental Triassic, 4th Meeting. International Workshop of the Triassic of Southern Poland, 2007 – organization of conference and field excursions

Membership in Scientific Organizations 

Polish Geological Society