Scientific degrees and titles

• 2015 - Professor of Earth Sciences in Geography
• 2007 - Habilitation in geography at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, dissertation on: "Glacial and periglacial transformation of karst relief of the northern foreland of the Lublin-Volhynia uplands (SE Poland, NW Ukraine)
• 1996 - Doctorate in Geography at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin; thesis on "Structural conditions of recent karst relief development in the middle Wieprz and Bug interfluve"
• 1988 - Master's degree in geography (specialization in comprehensive physical geography) at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin; Master's thesis on "Geomorphological conditions of the occurrence of ice-firn patches in the surroundings of the Morskie Oko Lake (High Tatra Mts.)"

Career

• since 2018 - Full professor, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
  2011-2018 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• 1997-2011 - Assistant Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• 1988-1997 - Scientific and Didactic Assistant, Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• 1987-1988 - Scientific and Technical Assistant, Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Functions

• 2016-2020 - Vice-Rector for Science and International Cooperation of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
• 2011-2016 - Dean of the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• 2011 - Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
• 2008-2011 – Vice-Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Research issues

• Geology and structural geomorphology of Lublin-Volhynian uplands (SE Poland, NW Ukraine), with particular emphasis on structural conditions of karst morphogenesis (chalk karst)
• The role of glacial and periglacial processes in the morphogenesis of Lublin- Volhynian uplands and their northern foreland (SE Poland, NW Ukraine)
• Reconstructions of Late Glacial and Holocene environmental conditions on the basis of biogenic-carbonate sediments, with particular emphasis on the origin and evolution of lake and peatland geosystems of Polesie Lowland
• Late Vistulian and Holocene lithostratigraphy and palaeogeography in Poland
• Environmental conditions of Prehistoric, Medieval and modern settlements in SE Poland
• Protection of abiotic elements of the natural environment