Doctorate Jagiellonian University, obtaining a doctoral degree in Earth Sciences, specializing in geology
Doctoral dissertation: "Factors controlling growth of modern tufa based on a study of surface and subsurface sections of selected streams in southern Slovakia"
2009 – Master’s Degree
Master’s Degree Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences
Thesis: "Travertine facies in the Žehra quarry, Dreveník Hill (Spiš, Slovakia)"
Positions Held
Member of the Institute's Quality Improvement Team for Education at the Institute of Geological Sciences JU
Member of the Commission for Promotion and Career Development of Graduates at the Institute of Geological Sciences JU
Member of the Faculty Recruitment Commission
Member of the Faculty of Geography and Geology UJ
Council Supervisor for 1st-year Geology students
Supervisor for 1st-year Earth Sciences in a Changing World students
Awards and Honours
2018 – Rector's distinction for high-quality teaching work at JU
2013 – Conference scholarship 30th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Manchester (United Kingdom)
2012 – Dean's Award for the best doctoral students in the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences
2011 – Krzysztof Beres Scholarship, Polish Geological Society
2011 – Conference scholarship IAS International School of Travertine and Tufa, Abbadia San Salvatore (Italy)
Genesis of calcareous tufa and travertine (Poland, Slovakia, Georgia)
Influence of seismic activity and tectonics on the formation of cave sediments (Poland, Slovakia)
Sedimentology and geochronology of Paleolithic cave deposits in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)
Research Areas and Fieldwork Conducted in -
Poland: sedimentological, tectonic, and hydrological research in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, the Carpathian Foredeep, Outer and Inner Carpathians
Slovakia: sedimentological, hydrological, and tectonic research in the Inner Carpathians (in Spiš and Slovak Karst)
Georgia: sedimentological and hydrogeological research in the fold belt of the Greater Caucasus in the Mccheta-Mtianetia and Svanetia regions
Kyrgyzstan: sedimentological, geochronological, and hydrogeological research in the Alay Mountains
Selected Scientific Publications
Sala, P., Bella, P., Postawa, T., Wróblewski, W. & Gradziński, M., 2023. Corrosion of carbonate speleothems by bat guano. Sedimentary Geology, 454: 106454. doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2023.106454
Batoćanin, N., Wróblewski, W., Carevic, I., Durlević, U., Gajić, V. & Valjarević, A., 2023. Facies and origin of tufa deposits from the Gostilje River Basin and the Sopotnica River Basin (SW Serbia). Applied Sciences, 13: 3190. doi.org/10.3390/app13053190
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 intopaleoseismology from cave deformations and damaged speleothems (Demänová Cave System, Low Tatra Mts). Tectonophysics, 820: 229111. doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229111
Szczygieł, J., Wróblewski, W., Mendecki, M. J., Hercman, H. & Bosák, P., 2020. Soft-sediment deformation structures in cave deposits and their possible causes (Kalacka Cave, Tatra Mts., Poland). Journal of Structural Geology, 140: 104161. doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104161
Gradziński, M., Wróblewski, W., Duliński, M. & Hercman, H., 2014. Earthquake-affected development of a travertine ridge. Sedimentology, 61(1): 238–263. doi.org/10.1111/sed.12086
International Experience
2015 – IMS 2015 Kraków, Sedimentary facies analysis: from sedimentology to sequence stratigraphy Short course, Kraków
2015 – IMS 2015 Kraków, Modern techniques for rock-structure imaging Short course, Kraków
2012 – CEEPUS Scholarship, Polytechnic University of Tirana (Albania)
