Academic Achievements

• 2002 – PhD
  • Doctoral degree in Earth Sciences, discipline of geology at the Jagiellonian University 
  • Doctoral dissertation topic: "Micropaleontological analysis of Upper Cretaceous marls in the Silesian unit in the Polish Outer Carpathians"  
• 1994 – Master’s Degree 
  • Master’s Degree at the Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences 
  • Thesis topic: "The model of growth stages of Nummulitidae based on biometrical analyses of the selected species" 

Professional Experience

• Since 2004 – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Geological Sciences
• 1994-2004 – Teaching Assistant at the Institute of Geological Sciences

Positions Held

Coordinator of the CEEPUS EURO Geo-Sci Program – Institute of Geological Sciences

Awards and Honours

• Group Award – 2010 
• Rector's Award from Jagiellonian University – 2004 
• Rector's Scholarship from the Scientific Fund for 2004/2005 
• Doctoral dissertation recognition – 2003 
• Award from the Environmental, Structural and Stratigraphical Evolution of the Western Carpathians in Bratislava – 2002

Scientific Interests

• Cretaceous-Paleogene smaller and larger foraminifera Taxonomy
• Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of small and large foraminifera 
• Paleoenvironmental reconstructions 
• Cretaceous-Paleogene biotic events

Current Research

• Climate changes at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary based on biotic events – northern border of the Tatra Mountains 
• Biostratigraphy and sedimentation conditions of Cretaceous sediments in the Silesian unit of the Polish Carpathian flysch – based on foraminiferal assemblages 
• Biostratigraphy and interpretation of depositional environments based on Upper Cretaceous sedimentary foraminifera in the Kraków region and the Miechów Basin

Selected Scientific Publications

• Vršič, A., Machaniec, E. & Gawlick, H.-J., 2021. Middle to Late Paleocene larger benthic foraminifera from the Sirt Basin (Libya). Revue de Micropaléontologie, 71: 100481. doi.org/10.1016/j.revmic.2021.100481
• Vršič, A., Gawlick, H.-J., Schlagintweit, F., Machaniec, E. & Gharsalla, M., 2021. Age, microfacies and depositional environment of the Middle to Late Paleocene shallow-marine carbonates in the Sirt Basin of Libya (Upper Sabil Formation) : “Are Intisar domal structures pinnacle reefs?”. Facies, 67(4): 27. doi.org/10.1007/s10347-021-00635-y
• Machaniec, E., Kowalczewska, O., Jugowiec, M., Gasiński, M. & Uchman, A., 2020. Foraminiferal and calcareous nannoplankton bioevents and changes at the Late Cretaceous-earliest Paleogene transition in the northern margin of Tethys (Hyżne section, Polish Carpathians). Geological Quarterly, 64(3): 567–588.
• Tshakreen, S. O., Gasiński, M., Machaniec, E. & Dubel, A., 2017. Campanian-Maastrichtian foraminiferal stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Lower Tar Member in the Wadi Tar section, Western Sirte Basin (Libya). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 87(4): 349–362. doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2017.019
• Uchman, A., Rodríguez-Tovar, F. J., Machaniec, E. & Kędzierski, M., 2013. Ichnological characteristics of Late Cretaceous hemipelagic and pelagic sediments in a submarine high around the OAE-2 event: a case from the Rybie section, Polish Carpathians. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 370: 222–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.12.013

International Experience

• 2004 – Univeristatea Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania – scholarship within CEEPUS
• 2002 – IAS Short Course on high-resolution sequence- and cyclostratigraphy of fluvial to shallow-marine successions, September 9-13, 2002, Sofia, Bulgaria 
• 1999 – IAS Short Course on Sequence Stratigraphy, Prague, Czech Republic 
• 10.1996–02.1997 – Institut Für Paleontologie, Universitat Wien; Relationships, biomass, and growth of selected larger foraminifera – scholarship awarded by the Republik Österreich Bundesministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung 
• 1994-1995 – Naturwisenschaft Museum, Basel, Switzerland (Large Foraminifera Research - Nummulitidae) 
• 1992-1994 – Basel University, Switzerland (Large Foraminifera Research)

Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences

• XXII Scientific Conference of the Paleontological Section of the Polish Scientific Society Paleo 2013, Actualism and antyactualism – co-leading field trips 
• Conferences Environmental, Structural and Stratigraphical Evolution of the Western Carpathians, Bratislava, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010 
• LXXIX Congress of the Polish Geological Society, Geological structure of the Tatra Mountains and Podhale with particular emphasis on geothermal phenomena in Podhale, Bukowina Tatrzańska, September 26–29, 2009 – co-leading field trips 
• International Symposium on the Cretaceous Neuchatel, 2005 
• Meeting of IGCP 463 2004 (Upper Cretaceous Oceanic Red BEds; Response to Ocean/Climate Global Change), Ancona, September 21–24.09.2002 
• Carpathian Geology Conference 2000, Smolenice, 1999 
• XLVIII Congress of the Polish Geological Society, Zakopane, 1997 – co-leading field trips 
• COMETT Conference (International program as part of the EU project), Larger Foraminifera: an International Training Course in Applied Palaeontology of Shallow Water Carbonate Environments, Basel 1993, 1994 – conference organization
• Conference of Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists, Bratislava, Banská Bystrica 
• Conferences of the International Associations of Sedimentologists (IAS), Opatija, Coimbra, Alghero
• Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association, Bratislava

Memberships in Scientific Organizations

• 2006 - Local coordinator of the CEEPUS scholarship program (Central European Exchange Program for University Studies) – student exchange program covering Central European countries 
• International Association of Sedimentologists – member since 1999 
• Polish Geological Society – member since 1995