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We are proud to announce that Professor Jan Środoń, DSc, employed at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (ING PAN) as a professor at the ING PAN Research Centre in Kraków, has been awarded the title of "Highly Ranked Scholar" for 2024 by ScholarGPS for his outstanding career achievements. This recognition honors his impressive number of publications, the high impact of his work, and the quality of his scientific contributions. As a result, according to the latest 2024 ScholarGPS ranking, Professor Środoń is ranked among the top 0.05% of the world's best scientists. He is ranked sixth globally in the field of clay minerals, and third among scholars in this specialty affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences and its institutes.

Our heartfelt congratulations!

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>>Link to Professor Jan Środoń's profile on Scholar GPS<<

>>ScholarGPS results for the Polish Academy of Sciences<<

We are pleased to announce that PE Limited has kindy extended the donation of 10 academic licenses of the MOVE v. 2024 software for another year.
The donation equivalent is 1 928 384.01GBP.
The software will be used in PhD research projects and statutory tasks at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences.

PE Limited (Petex) was based in 1990 in Edinburgh (UK). The company possesses broad expertise  in engineering software development, as well as in the field of petroleum engineering. The MOVE suite provides a platform for integrating and interpreting data, cross-section construction, 3D model building, kinematic restoration and validation, geomechanical modelling, fracture modelling, fault response modelling, fault and stress analysis, and sediment modelling. For more information see PE Limited website: https://www.petex.com/products/move-suite/

A short report on the visit of our employee (prof. IGS PAS Łukasz Kruszewski) to Universitas Diponegoro (Indonesia)

The visit, on August 1-18, 2024, stood for the next stage of the recently initiated - thanks to the scientific activity of Dr. Marta Wojewódka-Przybył - research cooperation between the IGS PAS and the Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP) of Semarang (Central Java), as part of a memorandum signed with the representative of UNDIP, prof. Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati (Fakultas Sains dan Matematika, FSM, and Cluster for Paleolimnology, CPalim).
The visit consisted of:
- lectures by our employee on the potential of mineralogy and geochemistry in (palaeo)limnological research (FSM; School of Postgraduate Studies)
- training in qualitative and quantitative mineralogical analysis (PXRD / Rietveld, TOPAS software) and gas analysis (presentation of the portable GASMET DX4000 system and Calcmet program)
- consultations with students working on various limnological and biological/environmental topics (including participation in the defense of the master's thesis), mainly in the field of publishing and results discussion
- field work (several days of research on oxbow lakes in the Kota Palangkaraya region, Central Borneo, in cooperation with representatives of Universitas Palangkaraya, UPR; research on the Rawa Pening lake, Central Java), including the application of innovative methodology for gas emission research
- lecture at a seminar at the UPR
- participation (a short talk) in the Inauguration of the Newcome Students
- meeting with geologists from UNDIP and insight into their current research problems (including presentation of the possibilities equipment and access to research in Poland) - discussions with botanists from UNDIP in the context of joint research (including implementation of the topic of botanical indicators of carbon environments; application of pedomineralogy in botanical research)

The visit already continues, with a lecture on the "Pit lake from mining and the solution" on 02.09.2024, via Zoom.

We are proud to inform that on October 9, 2023, the Memorandum of Understanding in the field of Earth Sciences was signed between the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IGS PAS) and Diponegoro University (UNDIP, Semarang, Indonesia).

UNDIP was represented by the dean, dr R. Bambang Sularto  and vice-dean, prof. Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati. On behalf of IGS PAS, the discussions were attended by prof. Dr hab. Stanisław Mazur (Director of IGS PAS), dr hab. Helena Hercman (Head of the Research Center of IGS PAS in Warsaw), dr hab. Łukasz Kruszewski, and dr Marta Wojewódka-Przybył. During the meeting, further possibilities for collaboration in research projects and publications were discussed. The signing ceremony of the memorandum was preceded by a lecture by prof. Tri Retnaningsih Soeprobowati titled "Environmental Issues in Indonesia and the Importance of Paleolimnological Studies."

We kindly inform that on 24th of May 2023 the President of Polish Academy of Sciences - Prof. Marek Konarzewski) has appointed Prof. Stanislaw Mazur for a 4-year term as director of Institute of Geological Sciences, PAS.