Academic Achievements
- 2026 – Habilitation
- Jagiellonian University, field of Environmental Sciences, discipline of Earth Sciences, dicipline of geology
- Habilitation work: „Transitional flow deposits in turbidite systems”
- 2019 – PhD
- PhD of Earth Sciences at Faculty of Geography and Geology, Jagiellonian University
- PhD thesis: "Sedmentological analysis of selected deposits of the Ropianka Formation (Upper Cretaceous – Paleocene) of the Skole Unit”
- 2013 – Master degree
- Master’s degree at Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Jagiellonian University
- Master’s thesis "Characteristics of the Ropianka Formation (Upper Cretaceous – Paleocene) deposits of the Skole Unit in the area of Wola Rafałowska”
- 2011 – Bachelor degree
- Bachelor’s degree at Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Jagiellonian University
Professional Experience
- From 2022 – Jagiellonian University; Position: Assistant Professor with a PhD
- 2019-2022 – Jagiellonian University; Position: Assistant with a PhD
- 2018-2019 – Jagiellonian University; Position: NCN DAINA grant recipient
Positions Held
From 2020 – Supervisor of the Scientific Organisation of Geologists Students of the Jagiellonan Unversity
Awards and Honours
- Rector's Award for Teaching Achievements – December 2024
- Rector's Award for Scientific Achievements for Annual Research Activity in 2023 – August 2024
- Rector's Team Award, 3rd Degree, for Organizational Achievements – November 2023
- Rector's Team Award, 3rd Degree, for Organizational Achievements – November 2021
- Ludwik Zejszner Award (Polish Geological Society) – 2019
Scientific Interests
- sedimentary processes and mechanisms
- gravity flows and their deposits
- sedimentology and facies analysis of deep water deposits
Current Research
- Heterolithic deposits in deep water setting
- Coarse-grained deposits in Quarternaty inland dune deposits in Poland
- Sedimentary environment of deposits in the Polish Flysch Carpathians
- Hybrid flow deposits
Selected Scientific Publications
- Łapcik, P., Baas, J. H., 2024. Integrating transitional-flow signatures into hybrid event beds: Implications for hybrid-flow evolution on a submarine lobe fringe. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 94: 799–821. doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2024.023
- Ninard, K., Stolarczyk, M., Łapcik, P. & Uchman, A., 2023. Buried Podzols as a pedostratigraphic marker for the Medieval Climatic Optimum: Grębociny soil in the dune deposits of the European Sand Belt. The Holocene doi.org/10.1177/09596836231185838
- Ninard, K., Łapcik, P., Uchman, A., Stachacz, M., 2022. 3D sine wave-like geometry of soft sediment deformation structures: Possible record of the Late Pleistocene seismic activity over the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone. Terra Nova, 34: 54–61. doi.org/10.1111/ter.12562
- Łapcik, P., Ninard, K., Uchman, A., 2021. Extra-large grains in Late Glacial – Early Holocene aeolian inland dune deposits of cold climate, European Sand Belt, Poland: An evidence of hurricane-speed frontal winds. Sedimentary Geology, 105847. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105847
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Łapcik, P., 2019. Facies anatomy of a progradational submarine channelized lobe complex: semi-quantitative analysis of the Ropianka Formation (Campanian–Paleocene) in Hucisko Jawornickie section, Skole Nappe, Polish Carpathians. Acta Geologica Polonica, 69: 111–141.
International Experience
- IAS Post-Doctoral Research Grants, Aberystwyth, Walia, UK, 2021
- Grant NCN MAESTRO 4, fieldwork in provinces Guizhou and Quangxi in China, 2017
Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences
- Dni Nauk o Ziemi V, Kraków, 2026 – leading a field trip
- CBGA Congress, Cluj-Napoca, 2026 – oral presentation
- IV Polski Kongres Geologiczny, Poznań 2024 – oral presentation, poster
- Dni Nauk o Ziemi III, Kraków, 2024 – leading a field trip, leading a workshop
- IGCP 36th Himalaya-Karakorum-Tibet Workshop, Kraków, 2024 – co-leading a field trip
- International Lithosphere Programme, Kraków 2024 – member of the organizing committee
- Dni Nauk o Ziemi II, Kraków, 2023 – co-leading a field trip
- IGCP-IUGS Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys, Kraków, September, 2023 – oral presentation
- 36th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Dubrovnik, June 2023 – poster
- Dni Nauk o Ziemi, Kraków, 2022 – co-leading a field trip
- 35th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Praga, 2021 – oral presentation
- Polish Sedimentological Congress POKOS 7, Góra Świętej Anny, 2018 – poster
- LXXXV Congress of the Polish Geological Society, Koszalin, 2017 – poster
- 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology 2015, Kraków, 2015 – volunteering
Membership in Scientific Organizations
- Polish Geological Society
- International Association of Sedimentologists