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Academic Achievements

  • 2012University Professor at the Jagiellonian University 
  • 1998PhD
    • Doctoral degree in Earth Sciences, discipline of geology, Jagiellonian University
    • Dissertation title: "Mineralogy of Magnesian Skarns from the Dębnik Ridge"
  • 1989Master’s Degree 
    • Master’s Degree at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Department of Mineralogy and Petrography, Geochemistry and Mineralogy Section 
    • Thesis: "Minerals of the Devonian Dolomite Transformation Zone in the Vicinity of Dubie"

Positions Held

  • 2012–2020: Deputy Director for Educational Affairs at the Institute of Geological Sciences
  • 2012–2021: Member of the Faculty Team for Improving the Quality of Education at the Faculty of Geology and Earth Sciences 
  • 2012–2021: Member of the Program Board for the "Geology" program 
  • 2012–2021: Member of the Quality Education Team for the "Geology" program 
  • 2019–2020: Chair of the Faculty Team for Improving the Quality of Education at the Faculty of Geology and Earth Sciences 
  • 2019–2020: Member of the Program Board for "Earth Sciences in the Changing World"
  • 1996–2013: Supervisor of the Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Laboratory 
  • 1990–2008: Supervisor of the Grinding Laboratory 

Awards and Honours

  • 2019/2020 – Rector's distinction for contributions to educational quality 
  • 2011 – Ludwik Zejszner Award from the Polish Geological Society for the work "Stephanian-Early Permian basaltic trachyandesites from the Sławków and Nieporaz-Brodła grabens near Kraków, Southern Poland," published in the Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 
  • 2009 – Rector's Award from Jagiellonian University for organizing the VENTS 4 conference 
  • 2000 – Rector's Award from Jagiellonian University for doctoral work 
  • 1999 – Group Award from the Rector of Jagiellonian University for organizing the 3rd Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association, Kraków

Scientific Interests

  • Petrology of Igneous Rocks
  • Mineralogy and Petrology of Metamorphic Rocks 
  • Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Non-Carbonate Impurities in Carbonate Rocks

Current Research

Petrogenesis of Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Rocks, with a Focus on Southern Poland

Selected Scientific Publications

  • Lewandowska, A., Rospondek, M. & Kobuszewski, Ł., 2018. Alleged Carboniferous (Viséan) volcanism at the eastern margin of the Moravo-Silesian Basin, Kraków region, Southern Poland. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 88(1): 59-69. doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2018.005
  • Nawrocki, J., Fanning, M., Lewandowska, A., Polechońska, O. & Werner, T., 2008. Palaeomagnetism and the age of the Cracow volcanic rocks (S Poland). Geophysical Journal International, 174(2): 475-488. doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03804.x
  • Szulc, J., Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A. & Heunisch, C., 2006. The Upper Triassic crenogenic limestones in Upper Silesia (southern Poland) and their paleoenviromental context. In: Alonso-Zarza, A.M. & Tanner, L.H. (eds), Paleoenvironmental record and applications of calcretes and Palustrine carbonates. Geological Society of America, Special Paper, 416: 133–151. doi.org/10.1130/2006.2416(09)
  • Floyd, P.A., Winchester, J.A., Ciesielczuk, J., Lewandowska, A., Szczepański, J. & Turniak, K., 1996. Geochemistry of early Palaeozoic amphibolites from the Orlica-Śnieżnik dome, Bohemian massif: petrogenesis and palaeotectonic aspects. Geologische Rundschau, 85: 225-238. doi.org/10.1007/BF02422230
  • Lewandowska, A., 1991. Minerals of the zone of altered Devonian dolomites from Dubie area near Kraków. Mineralogia Polonica, 22(2): 29-39.

International Experience

  • 2001 – Research stay at the University of Salzburg (Austria) 
  • 2001 – Completion of the course "Introduction to Physical Volcanology and Volcanic Textures" conducted by Prof. Dr. Christoph Breitkreutz, Freiberg University, Germany 
  • 2001 – Completion of the course "Thermodynamics in Geology" led by Prof. Dr. Thomas Will (Wurzburg University, Germany) 
  • 1996 – ERASMUS scholarship at Christian Albrechts University of Kiel (Germany) in the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) laboratory 
  • 1995 – Completion of the course "Structural Metamorphic Petrology" conducted by Dr. M. Piasecki from Keele University (UK) 
  • 1993 – TEMPUS scholarship at Keele University (UK) in the field of metamorphic rock petrology

Organization in Scientific Conferences

  • 2009 – Chair of the organizing committee for the international conference VENTS 4, Miękinia, May 21-24, 2009 
  • 2007/2008 Organization of the First Polish Geological Congress, Kraków, June 26-28, 2008
  • 2007 – Organization and leadership of a field trip by the Polish Geological Society, Czatkowice 
  • 2000 – Organization of the XVII Session of the Petrology Section of PTMin Osieczany, October 15-18, 2000 
  • 1997 – Organization of the international conference: 3rd Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association, Kraków 
  • 1994 – Leadership of a field trip at the LXV Congress of the Polish Geological Society, Sosnowiec 
  • 1993 – Leadership of a field trip by the Polish Geological Society, Kraków 
  • 1989 – Participation in organizing the International Conference, "Thethian Cretaceous Correlation" IGCP 262

Participation in Scientific Conferences (Post-Conference Publications)

(And many more publications were listed here, mostly papers presented at conferences and symposiums, and contributions to special papers and abstract books)

  • Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A., Paszkowski, M., Duliński, M., Nawrocki, J. & Żywiecki, M., 2011. Peculiar carbonates of Permian hydrothermal karst in Kraków region, Southern Poland. In: 14th Bathurst Meeting of Carbonate Sedimentologists, 12-14 July 2011, University of Bristol, p. 26.
  • Lewandowska, A., 2009. Dubie – operating quarry. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region, Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 50-52.
  • Lewandowska, A., 2009. Late Carboniferous – Early Permian magmatic rocks of the Kraków region. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region, Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 44-46.
  • Lewandowska, A. & Gajewski, T., 2009. Kowalska Góra – abandoned quarry. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region. Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 55-56.
  • Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J., 2009. Regulice-Czarna Góra abandoned quarry. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region, Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 53-55.
  • Lewandowska, A., Paszkowski, M., Gradziński, M., Duliński, M., Nawrocki, J. & Żywiecki, M., 2009. Permian hydrothermal karst in the Kraków region. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region, Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 17.
  • Lewandowska, A., Rospondek, M.J & Nawrocki, J., 2009. The geochemistry of volcaniclastic rocks associated with basaltic trachyandesites in the Nieporaz-Brodła graben near Kraków, Southern Poland. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region, Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 15-16.
  • Paszkowski, M., Rospondek, M.J., Kędzior, A. & Lewandowska, A., 2009. Revealing Evolution of the Natural Gases and Source Rocks of the Dismembered Coal-Bearing Variscan Fore-Deep Developed on Avalonian Brno-Upper Silesia-Moesia-Istanbul-Zonguldak Superterrane, Symposium on the Geology of the Black Sea Region. Mineral Research and Exploration General Directorate, October 5-9, 2009, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Rospondek, M.J., Lewandowska, A. & Marynowski, L., 2009. Fate of organic matter during contact metamorphism induced by Permian magmatic activity in the Dębnik Anticline, Southern Poland. In: Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M.J. (eds), Permo-Carboniferous vocanism of the Kraków region, Fourth VENTS Field Workshop VENTS 4. Mineralogia, Special Papers, 34: 22-23.
  • Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A., Paszkowski, M., Żywiecki, M., Nawrocki, J., Duliński, M., Krygier, J. & Litwinowicz, R., 2008. Facje permskich osadów obszaru krakowskiego – wstępne wyniki badań. In: Haczewski, G. (ed.), I Polski Kongres Geologiczny. Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne, Kraków, Poland, pp. 33-34.
  • Lewandowska, A., Paszkowski, M., Gradziński, M., Duliński, M., Nawrocki, J. & Żywiecki, M., 2008. The sediments of Permian hydrothermal karst in Kraków region, Southern Poland. In: 61 Türkiye Jeoloji Kurultayi Bildirileri, 24-28 Mart 2008, Ankara, Turkey.
  • Lewandowska, A., Rospondek, M.J., Finger, F. & Schulz, B., 2008. The oldest well preserved terrestrial interstitial volcanic glass, In: 61 Türkiye Jeoloji Kurultayi Bildirileri, 24-28 Mart 2008, Ankara, Turkey, pp. 212.
  • Lewandowska, A., Rospondek, M.J., Finger, F., Schulz, B. & Nawrocki, J., 2008. Modelowanie frakcjonalnej krystalizacji bazaltowych trachyandezytów rejonu krakowskiego. In: Haczewski, G. (ed.), I Polski Kongres Geologiczny. Polskie Towarzystwo Geologiczne, Kraków, Poland, pp. 66.
  • Lewandowska, A., Rospondek, M.J., Finger, F., Schulz, B. & Nawrocki, J., 2008. Petrogenesis of Late Carboniferous/Early Permian basaltic trachyandesites from the Kraków area, Southern Poland. In: Breitkreuz, C., Hoffmann, U., Renno, A.D. & Stanek, K. (eds), 3ed VENTS field workshop, Volcanic systems within the European Permocarboniferous intermontane basins and their basement, Bohemia - Lusatia – Silesia, Institute for Geology and Institute for Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany, pp. 10-11.
  • Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A., Paszkowski, M., Duliński, M., Żywiecki, M., Nawrocki, J., Krygier, J. & Litwinowicz, R., 2007. Permski wulkannogeniczny kras antykliny Dębnika – wstępne wyniki badań. Materiały 41 Sympozjum Speleologicznego, 31.
  • Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M., 2007. Late Carboniferous-Early Permian magmatic rocks of the Karków area, Southern Poland. Sbornik Muzea Ćeskĕho Ráje, Acta Musei Turnoviensis, VENTS 2. Turnow 2007, 15-16.
  • Lewandowska, A., Banaś, M. & Zygoń, K., 2006. Wiek K-Ar fenokryształów z dajeki andezytowej z Dubia koło Krakowa. IX Ogólnopolska Sesja Naukowa – “Datowanie minerałów i skał”, Gdańsk, 37-38.
  • Lewandowska, A., Rospondek, M. & Marynowski, L., 2005. Organic matter in the contact metamorphism processes of the Devonian dolomites from Dębnik Anticline, Southern Poland. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 23: 267-270.
  • Lewandowska, A., Lebedev, V. & Rospondek, M., 2004. Anisotropy of garnets from the Khovu-Aksy Co-Ni ore formation (Tuva Republik, Russia), Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 23: 267-270.
  • Gradziński, M., Duliński, M., Motyka, J., Mrozińska-Brodz, T., Chmiel, M.J., Czerwik-Marcinkowska, J. & Lewandowska, A., 2003. Deposition of modern travertines in Slovakia and Poland - preliminary results. In: Vlahović, I. (ed.), 22nd IAS Meeting of Sedimentology - Opatija 2003, Abstract Book. Institute of Geology, Zagreb, 72.
  • Gradziński, M., Heunish, C., Lewandowska, A. & Szulc, J., 2003. Facies, age and origin of Woźniki Liestone - The Upper Triassic spring fed continental deposits. In: Vlahović, I. (ed.), 22nd IAS Meeting of Sedimentology - Opatija 2003, Abstract Book. Institute of Geology, Zagreb, 73.
  • Lewandowska, A. & Rospondek, M., 2003. Geochemistry of Volcanics of the Zalas Area near Kraków, South Poland. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 23: 119-121.
  • Rospondek, M., Lewandowska, A., Chocyk-Jamińska, M. & Finger, F., 2003. Residual glass of high-K basaltic andesites from the Nieporaz-Brodła Graben. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 23: 267-270.
  • Tomsia, W., Lewandowska, A. & Ionescu, C., 2003. Talc-Tremolite Paragenesis from the Contact Metamorphosed Dolomites (NW Romania). Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 23: 172-174.
  • Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A. & Szulc, J., 2002. Późnotriasowe procesy krasowe na obszarze wyżyny śląskiej w świetle najnowszych badań wapienia woźnickiego. Materiały 36 Sympozium Speleologicznego. Sekcja Speleologiczna Polskiego Towarzystwa Przyrodników im. M. Kopernika, Pińczów 25-27.10.2002, 36.
  • Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A. & A Szulc, J., 2002. The Upper Triassic continental limestones in Upper Silesia (Southern Poland) and their paleoenvironmental context. In: Michalik, J., Hudackova, N., Chalupova, B. & Starek, D. (eds), Paleogeographical Paleoecological Paleoclimatica Development Of Central Europe. Astract Book. Institute of Geology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 82-83.
  • Lewandowska, A., 2002. Schreinemakers analysis in CM-HC systems – theoretical approach and petrological application. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 20: 127-129.
  • Lewandowska, A. & Kmiecik, B., 2002. Contact metamorphism of the lower Carboniferous limestones, the Szklarka Valley near Kraków, Southern Poland. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 20: 130-132.
  • Rospondek, M. & Lewandowska, A., 2002. Comparative FT-IR spectral studies of thaumasite Ca3Si(OH)6(CO3) (SO)4×12H2O. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 20: 187-191.
  • Szulc, J., Gradziński, M. & Lewandowska, A., 2002. The upper Triassic spring-fed palustrine basin in Upper Silesia, Southern Poland. Schriftenreihe der Deutsche Geologische Gesselschaft, Sediment 2002, Darmstadt: Heft 1, 17: 200-201.
  • Gradziński, M., Lewandowska, A. & Szulc, J., 2001. Wapień Woźnicki - węglanowe utwory przełomu Triasu i jury -problemy genezy i wieku. PTG. Polska Grupa Robocza systemu Jurajskiego. Jurassica. II Spotkanie. Starachowice 27-29, 2001, 3.
  • Lewandowska, A. & Bochenek, K., 2001. New granitoid ksenoliths from Zalas rhyodacite. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 18: 106-108.
  • Lewandowska, A., Szulc, A. & Gradziński, M., 2001. Noncarbonate components of Woźniki limestone - preliminary results. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 18: 109-111.
  • Lewandowska, A., 2000. Contact metamorphism induced by late Paleozoic igneous activity in the Dębnik anticline. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 17: 41-46.
  • Lewandowska, A., Winchester, J., Garbe-Schoenberg, D., Arpe, T. & Rospondek, M., 2000. Endocontact alterations of the rhyodacite of the Dębnik anticline. Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 17: 47-50.
  • Rospondek, M., Lewandowska, A., Koszowska, E. & Wolska, A., 2000. Volcanic Rock Pebbles from the Będkowska Valley Conglomerates (Southern Poland). Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne - Prace specjalne, 17: 72-74.

Membership in Scientific Organizations

  • Polish Geological Society
  • Polish Mineralogical Society

Editorial Membership in Scientific Journals

  • Editing of Special Papers of the Polish Mineralogical Society – VENTS 4, Miękinia 2009
  • Editing of the 17th Special Papers of the Polish Mineralogical Society – 2000