Academic Achievements

• 2021 – Professor
• 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

• Bella, P., Gradziński, M., Hercman, H., Leszczyński, S. & Nemec, W., 2021. Sedimentary anatomy and hydrological record of relic fluvial deposits in a karst cave conduit. Sedimentology, 68(1): 425–448. doi.org/10.1111/sed.12785
• Szczygieł, J., Gradziński, M., Bella, P., Hercman, H., Littva, J., Mendecki, M.J., Sala, P. & Wróblewski, W., 2021. Quaternary faulting in the Western Carpathians: insights into paleoseismology from cave deformations and damaged speleothems (Demänová Cave System, Low Tatra Mts). Tectonophysics, 820: 229111. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229111
• Hercman, H., Gąsiorowski, M., Pawlak, J., Błaszczyk, M., Gradziński, M., Matoušková, Š., Zawidzki, P. & Bella, P., 2020. Atmospheric circulation and the differentiation of precipitation sources during the Holocene inferred from five stalagmite records from Demänová Cave System (Central Europe). Holocene, 30(6): 834–846. doi.org/10.1177/0959683620902224
• Wilczyński, J., Krajcarz, M.T., Moskal-del Hoyo, M., Alexandrowicz, W.P., Miękina, B., Pereswiet-Soltan, A., Wertz, K., Lipecki, G., Marciszak, A., Lõugas, L., Gradziński, M., Szczepanek, A., Zastawny, A. & Wojenka, M., 2020. Late Glacial and Holocene paleoecology and paleoenvironmental changes in the northern Carpathians foreland: the Żarska Cave (southern Poland) case study. Holocene, 30(6): 905–922. doi.org/10.1177/0959683620902220
• 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
• 45th Speleological Symposium, Ojców, 2011
• LXXIX PTG Scientific Congress, Bukowina Tatrzańska, 2009
• 1st Polish Geological Congress, Kraków, 2008
• 38th Speleological Symposium, Zakopane, 2004
• 1st Polish Sedimentology Conference, Zakopane, 2004, chairman of the organizing committee
• 31st Speleological Symposium, Ojców, 2004
• LXXII PTG Scientific Congress, Kraków, 2001
• 34th Speleological Symposium, Kościelisko, 2000
• Climate Change, The Karst Record II, Kraków, 2000
• 3rd Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association & 3rd International Meeting of IGCP 380, Kraków, 1997
• 29th Speleological Symposium, Zakopane, 1995
• IV National Sedimentologists Meeting, Kraków, 1995, secretary of the organizing committee

Membership in Scientific Organizations

• Polish Geological Society – membership since 1995, treasurer 1997–2005, member of the Main Board 2005–2021, vice president since 2021
• International Association of Sedimentologists – membership since 2001, 2004–2020 National Correspondent in Poland
• Speleological Section of the Polish Society of Naturalists named after Copernicus – membership since 1992, secretary 1995–2005, board member 2005–2017

Editorial Membership in Scientific Journals

• Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae since 1995, secretary of the editorial board since 2012
• Slovenský Kras since 2010
• Aragonit since 2009
• Sedimentary Geology – editorial board member since 2013
• Facies – editorial board member since 2013
• Geological Review – editorial board member since 2020