Name: ZUCHIEWICZ

First name: Witold

Middle name: Aleksander

Born: December 13th, 1955, Cracow, Poland

Office address: Chair of Environmental Analyses, Cartography, and Economic Geology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, Al.

Mickiewicza 30 Str., 30059 Cracow; phone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Degrees:

1978 M.Sc. in physical geography, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

1981 Ph.D. in geology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

1988 Dr. Sc. in geology; Jagiellonian University

1998 Professor of Earth sciences

2004 corresponding member, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Positions:

1978 young research assistant, Institute of Geography, Jagiellonian University

1979 research assistant, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University

1982 assistant professor, as above

1990 associate professor, as above

2001 full professor, Jagiellonian University

2007 full professor, AGH University of Science and Technology

Posts held (selected):

1982-85: vice-secretary, editorial office Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

1987-89: board member, Polish Geological Society

1991-95: Secretary to the INQUA Neotectonics Commission

since 1993: Editor-in-Chief Folia Quaternaria (edited by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences) since 1993: member of Editorial Board Studia Geomorphologica Carpatho-Balcanica

since 1999: member of Management Board of Terra Nova

1995-99: member of Editorial Board Przegląd Geologiczny [Geological Review]

2002-2011: Editor-in-Chief Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

1996-2007: president of Scientific Council, Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University 1997-2007: Director, Postgraduate (Ph.D.) Studies Program at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagiellonian University

since 2008: member of Editorial Board Geological Quarterly

Research interests:

neotectonics, morphotectonics, palaeoseismology, recent stress field, fluvial geomorphology, lithology and lithostratigraphy of Quaternary fluvial and slopes sediments, structural geology (with special attention paid to the analysis of joints)

Study areas:

Polish Carpathians, Carpathian Foredeep, Cracow Upland, Sudetes Mts., Ukrainian Carpathians, southern Sweden, Southern Alps, Basin-and-Range Province (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming), Northern Vietnam (Red River and Dien Bien Phu fault zones), Laos

Scholarships abroad:

1985 Institute of Geology, Universita degli Studi di Padova (1 month)

1986 Institute of Geology, University of Stockholm (1 month)

1989 Universitá degli Studi di Udine (1 week)

1991 Logan, Utah State University (6 months)

1995/96 Brunel University College, London (3 months)

Membership of scientific societies:

29, i.a.: The Geological Society, London, Geological Society of America, Committee for Quaternary Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Geological Society of Poland, Commission for Quaternary Palaeogeography of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Polish Geographical Society, Geographical Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Carpatho-Balkan Geomorphological Commission, International Association of Structural/Tectonic Geologists, UNESCO

IGCP Project 430, Association of Polish Geomorphologists, Galicia T. Group

Active participation in international congresses and conferences: 94 (including the last seven International Geological Congresses)

Active participation in national congresses/symposia: 69

Publications:

4 monographs, 153 peer-reviewed papers,132 short contributions, 85 extended abstracts, 129 regular abstracts, 3 maps, 6 book reviews, 17 edited volumes, 54 other publications, 13 unpublished reports Awards: several national ones since 1979 (including those given by the Polish Geological Society, Jagiellonian University and AGH University of Science and Technology), Hutchison Young Scientist Award (IUGS, 1989), Serge-von-Bubnoff Medaille (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 2007), The Memorial Award for Science and Technology of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, The Medal for Peace and Friendship between the Nations, The Medal for Natural Resource and Environment of the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, The Medal for Geology of the Vietnam Geological Society (all 2009)

Grants:

Polish Committee for Scientific Research/Ministry of Higher Education - 10 since 1992, and several Geohosts during international geological and INQUA congresses