Uranium-Series Laboratory (LUT)

Head of the LUT.: dr hab. Michał Gąsiorowski
Institute of Geological Sciences PAS
Research Center in Warsaw
Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw (Poland)
Phone: (48) 22 6978-742 
e-mail: mgasior@twarda.pan.pl
 

Research fields:

  1. Dating geological and archaeological samples using the U-Th method
  2. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on speleothem records
  3. Analysis of elemental concentrations using the HR-ICP-MS spectrometer
  4. Dating lake sediments using the 210Pb and 137Cs methods
  5. Study of 3H activity in various components of the natural environment
  6. Elemental analysis - determination of CHNS content
  7. Isolating of collagen from fossil bone samples

Laboratory equipment:

  1. LA-ICP-MS
  2. Alpha Spectrometer
  3. Liquid Scintillation spectrometer
  4. Gamma Spectrometer
  5. Vario MicroCUBE elemental analyzer
  6. Equipment for sampling lake sediments

Team members:

  1. Dr .hab. Michał Gąsiorowski, Professor of the Institute
  2. Dr. Hab. Helena Hercman, Professor of the Institute
  3. MSc. Paula Sierpień, Laboratory Menager
  4. Dr. Jacek Pawlak, Adjunct
  5. Dr. Marcin Błaszczyk, Adjunct
  6. Dr. Ilona Sekudewicz, Adjunct
  7. Dr. Maciej Swęd, Adjunct
  8. MSc. Anna Mulczyk, Technician Expert
  9. M.Eng. Jacek Stienss, Assistant
  10. M. Eng. Karolina Kaucha, Assistant
  11. M.Eng. Zuzanna Krzynówek, Assistant