This week at our Research Center in Krakow, the ClayLab team is running a world-famous workshop on clay mineralogy for students, early career academics, and industry professionals. Participants from as far as Japan came to learn about the fascinating world of clay minerals.
The workshop includes a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. All basic aspects of clay science are covered, such as clay fraction separation, chemical pretreatments, and interpretation of X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and thermogravimetric data for clay-rich materials.
We are grateful to David Bish (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA), Georgios Chryssikos (Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, NHRF, Athens, Greece), Reiner Dohrmann (BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany), Stephen Hillier (James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK), Micheal Plötze (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), and Michał Skiba (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) for joining us this week to share their knowledge.
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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 0.39 % of the world's best scientists. He is ranked sixth globally in the field of clay minerals, and equally third among scholars in this specialty affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences and its institutes.
Our heartfelt congratulations!
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We kindly invite to the lecture by dr Samuel C Boone in the IGS PAS Krakow Research Centre lecture hall (Senacka 1 Kraków) at 5:00 p.m. on 12th of Dec 2024
Hearing the lecture is also possible online by ZOOM (link: https://zoom.us/j/91281700340?pwd=McdFH1xNs1YaxNDSV4MSgMxRJVkqkN.1 )
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We kindly invite you to discover the programme of events that are organised in the IGS PAS Cracov Research Centre during the Lesser Poland Researchers' Night 2024.
(On the website choose the filter "institution: Institute of Geological Sciences PAS - Instytut Nauk Geologicznych PAN):
