Academic Achievements

• 2023 – Habilitation
  • Jagiellonian University, field of Environmental Sciences, discipline of Earth Sciences, dicipline of geology
  • Habilitation work: "Diagenesis and porosity generation in siliceous spiculites: Example from the Permian Tempelfjorden Group in central Spitsbergen and Loppa High, Barents Sea"
• 2012 – Ph.D.
  • Jagiellonian University, discipline of Earth Sciences, dicipline of geology
  • Dissertation: "Origin of high-frequency depositional cycles in the Muschelkalk of southern Poland"
• 2007 – M.Sc.
  • Jagiellonian University, The Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Department of Sedimentology and Paleoenvironmental Analysis 
  • Thesis: "Dynamic stratigraphy of the Karchowice Beds in Upper Silesia region, Lower Muschelkalk"

Professional Experience

• 2020 – recent - adiunct, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University
• 2018 – recent - head of one person geological company ‘Michał Matysik Geoconsulting’ (consulting in carbonate reservoir sedimentology), Kraków
• 2017–2020 - postdoc, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University

Awards and Honours

• Ludwik Zejszner Scientific Award for the best paper in Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae in 2016 (Matysik, 2016). The Main Board of the Polish Geological Society, Kraków, 05.2018
• Award for outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 10.2012
• Award for scientific achievements in 2010, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 12.2011
• Award for scientific achievements in 2009, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 10.2010

Scientific Interests

• Sedimentology
• Sequence stratigraphy
• Cyclostratigraphy
• Synsedimentary tectonics
• Diagenesis
• Geochemistry of sedimentary rocks
• Modern depositional and diagenetic environments
• Characterization of reservoir rocks

Current Research

• nate sediments in Mexico, Bahamas and Mediterranean Sea
• depositional and diagenetic history of Middle Triassic marine carbonates (Rot and Muschelkalk) in Poland
• origin of hydrothermal veins, ore-bearing dolomite and lead-zinc ores in the Cracov-Silesia region

Selected Scientific Publications

• Stachacz, M. & Matysik, M., 2020. Early Middle Triassic (Anisian) trace fossils, ichnofabrics, and substrate types from the southeastern Germanic Basin (Wellenkalk facies) of Upper Silesia, southern Poland: implications for biotic recovery following the Permian/Triassic mass extinction. Global and Planetary Change, 194: 103290. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103290
• Matysik, M. & Szulc, J., 2019. Shallow-marine carbonate sedimentation in a tectonically mobile basin, the Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of Upper Silesia (southern Poland). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 107: 99–115. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2019.05.016
• Matysik, M., 2019. High-frequency depositional cycles in the Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of southern Poland: Origin and implications for Germanic Basin astrochronological scales. Sedimentary Geology, 383: 159–180. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2019.02.001
• Jewuła, K., Matysik, M., Paszkowski, M. & Szulc, J., 2019. The Late Triassic development of playa–gilgai environments from Upper Silesia, southern Poland. Sedimentary Geology, 379: 25–45. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.11.005
• Matysik, M., Stemmerik, L., Olaussen, S. & Brunstad, H., 2017. Diagenesis of spiculites and carbonates in a Permian temperate ramp succession, Tempelfjorden Group, Spitsbergen, Arctic Norway. Sedimentology, 65: 745–774. doi.org/10.1111/sed.12404

International Experience

• 2016-2017 – postdoc and scientific employee, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2014-2016 – postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2013 – postdoc, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences

• 16th Bathurst Meeting, Mallorca, Spain, 2019 – poster session
• Polish Sedymentological Conference POKOS 7, Góra Św. Anny, Poland, 2018 – organization of 2 field excursions
• 31st IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Kraków, Poland, 2015 – oral presentation and organization of field excursion
• 10th Meeting of the Saudi Society for Geosciences, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2013 – oral presentation 
• SEPM-CES-GV (Sektion Sedimentologie) SEDIMENT2010, Potsdam, Germany, 2010 – poster session 
• 80th Meeting of Polish Geological Society, Szczecin, Poland, 2010 – poster session 
• 6th Annual Conference of SEPM-CES SEDIMENT 2009, Kraków, Poland, 2009 – organization of field excursion
• First Polish Geological Congress, Kraków, Poland, 2009 – oral presentation 
• Pan European Correlation of the Epicontinental Triassic, 4th Meeting. International Workshop of the Triassic of Southern Poland, 2007 – organization of conference and field excursions

Membership in Scientific Organizations 

Polish Geological Society