Academic Achievements

• 2011 – Doctorate
  • Jagiellonian University, obtaining a doctoral degree in Earth Sciences with a specialization in geology
  • Doctoral thesis topic: "Ichnological analysis of the Lower Cambrian formations from southern block of the Holy Cross Mountains: the Czarna Shale Formation, the Ociesęki Sandstone Formation and the Kamieniec Shale Formation"
• 2005 – Master's Degree
  • Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, specialization – paleontology
  • Thesis topic: "Middle Miocene sediments from Szydłów and Brzeziny area – facies, palaeoecology, taphonomy"
• 2000 – Geological Technician
  • Geological and Mining Schools Complex, Krakow
  • Diploma thesis topic: "Miocene fauna of the Carpathian Foredeep"

Professional Experience

• Since 2022 – Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geological Sciences
• 2021-2022 – Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geological Sciences, lectures, freelance
• 2020-2021 – Amber Classifier, Mine Supervisor - Geological and Mining Supervision, GLN-Glauko Mine, Stellarium Ltd.
• 2013-2020 – Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geological Sciences
• 2011-2013 – Assistant, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Geological Sciences
• 2007 – Field Geologist, Geopartner, Krakow, freelance

Acquired Skills

• Rock preparation and petrographic thin sectioning – Logitech course and certificate, Glasgow
• Gemological course for amber – MSB course and certificate
• Macro photography

Awards and Honours

Rector's Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, 2011

Scientific Interests

• Paleontology
• Ichnology
• Stratigraphy
• Sedimentology
• Paleoecology
• Regional Geology

Current Research

• Triassic ichnology of southern Poland
• Ichnology and ecology of the Lower Cambrian of the Holy Cross Mountains
• Paleontology and paleoecology of the Carboniferous of the Holy Cross Mountains (including thesis)
• Clastic Eocene sedimentation with amber
• Paleontology and paleoecology of the Miocene of the northern margin of the Carpathian Foredeep

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
• Stachacz, M., Łaska, W., Uchman, A., 2018. Large cruzianid trace fossils in the Ordovician of the peri Baltic area: the case of the Bukówka Formation (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Geological Quarterly, 62(2): 400–414. doi.org/10.7306/gq.1412
• Uchman, A., Stachacz, M., Salamon, K., 2018. Spirolites radwanskii igen. et isp. nov. – a vermetid gastropod etching trace from the middle Miocene rocky coast of the Paratethys, Poland. Journal of Paleontology, 92(5): 883–895. doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.95
• Stachacz, M., Uchman, A. & Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., 2017. Ichnological record of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary interval: Two examples from the Holy Cross Mts (Central Poland). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106: 157–170. doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1308-1
• Stachacz, M., 2016. Ichnology of the Cambrian Ociesęki Sandstone Formation (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 86: 291–328. doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2016.007

International Experience

• 2019, September, Czech Republic, field research, collaboration with the Czech Geological Survey and Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2019, June, Serbia, field course on regional geology
• 2017, August, Norway, field research, collaboration with the University of Oslo
• 2017, August, South China, field research in tropical jungle, collaboration with Peking University
• 2015, June-July, NW China, Xinjiang, field research in the desert, collaboration with Peking University
• 2013, March, Spain, Universidad de Granada, Erasmus scholarship, teaching activities, field research
• 2012, September, Spain, Universidad de Granada, Erasmus scholarship, teaching activities, field research

Organization and Participation in Scientific Conferences

• International Conferences:
  • 8th International Workshop on the Neogene of Central and South-Eastern Europe, Chęciny, Poland, 2019 – participation in conference and field session
  • 15th International Ichnofabric Workshop, Czech Republic, Prague, 2019 – participation in conference and field session
  • 4th International Congress on Ichnology (Ichnia 2016), Portugal, Naturtejo Geopark, Idanha-a-Nova, 2016 – participation in conference and field session
  • 3rd International Congress on Ichnology (Ichnia 2012), Canada, Memorial University, St. John's, 2012 – participation in conference and field session
  • 2nd International Congress on Ichnology (Ichnia 2008), Krakow, 2008 – organization
• National Conferences:
  • POKOS 7, Polish Sedimentological Conference, Góra Św. Anny, 2018 – organization
  • XXII Scientific Conference of the Paleontological Section of the PTG, Tyniec, 2013 – organization

Membership in Scientific Organizations

Polish Geological Society