2019 – University Professor at Jagiellonian University
2011 – Habilitation Jagiellonian University
Academic degree of Doctor Habilitatus in natural sciences, specializing in Earth Sciences, discipline of geology
Habilitation Thesis: "Factors controlling the growth of modern tufa: results of a field experiment"
2000 – PhD Jagiellonian University
Doctoral degree in Earth Sciences, geology discipline
Doctoral Thesis: "Cave pisoids: genetic and environmental conditioning of their formation"
1992 – Master's Degree
Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological
Sciences Thesis Title: "Genesis of milk-type sediments in the caves of the Western Tatras and the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland"
Awards and Honours
Jagiellonian University Rector's Team Award in 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020
Member of the Scientific Council of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Geological Sciences since 2015, Vice-Chairman since 2019
Member of the Scientific Council of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Paleobiology since 2015
Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Ojców National Park since 2015
2011 - 1st-degree Maria Markowicz-Łohinowicz Award
2008 - 2nd-degree Maria Markowicz-Łohinowicz Award
1997 - Scholarship for young researchers - Foundation for Polish Science
Foundation for Polish Science scholarship under the professorial subsidy for Prof. J. Kaźmierczak
Scientific Interests
Sedimentology of carbonate rocks
Karst geology
Microbial processes and sediments
Current Research
Hiatuses in cave formations
Limestone necroses in Poland – diversity, age, and conditions of formation
Genesis of the Demänovský Cave System (Slovakia)
Selected Scientific Publications
Jelonek, M., Pawlak, J., Pereswiet-Soltan, A., Zelinka, J. & Gradziński, M., 2025. Growth rate of cave ice based on 14C dating of fossil bats as a palaeoenvironmental proxy for the last 1300 years in the Western Carpathians. The Holocene, 35: 1002–1014. doi.org/10.1177/09596836251350238
Słowakiewicz, M., Borkowski, A., Perri, E., Działak, P., Tagliasacchi, E., Gradziński, M., Kele, S., Reuning, L., Kibblewhite, T., Whitaker, F., Reid, R. P. & Tucker, M. E., 2024. Biofilms in modern CaCO3- supersaturated freshwater environments reveal viral proxies. Scientific Reports, 14: 25889. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-75998-7
Szczygieł, J., Gradziński, M., Grasemann, B., Hercman, H., Wróblewski, W., Bella, P., Littva, J. & Sala, P., 2024. Tectonics or rebound: Pleistocene fault reactivation in the highest mountains of the Carpathians. Tectonophysics, 871: 230171. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230171
Wróblewski, W., Bella, P., Drewnik, M., Duliński, M., Gradziński, M., Motyka, J., Nęcki, J, & Sala, P., 2024. Mixing of endogenous CO2 and meteoric H2O causes extremely efficient carbonate dissolution. Science of the Total Environment, 936: 173347. doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173347
Gradziński, M., Bella, P. & Holúbek, P., 2018. Constructional caves in freshwater limestone: a review of their origin, classification, significance and global occurrence. Earth-Science Reviews, 185: 179–201. doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.05.018
International Experience
2010 – Field research in Argentina
2002 – CEEPUS scholarship, Comenius University, Bratislava
2001, 1996 – CEEPUS scholarship, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Since 1995 – Field research in Slovakia
Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences
53rd Speleological Symposium, Szczawnica, 2019
7th Polish Sedimentology Conference, Góra św. Anny, 2018 31st
IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Kraków, 2015, chairman of the organizing committee
