Michał Bukała


Address:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Research Centre in Kraków
Senacka 1, 31-002 Kraków, Poland

Position: Assistant professor
E-mail: m.bukala@ingpan.krakow.pl

              

              

 

Principal research interests:

metamorphic petrology, structural geology, microstructural analysis,
conventional / trace elements thermobarometry, thermodynamic modelling, electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), 

Academic degrees:

2021 – PhD in Earth Sciences - Geology
          Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection
          AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków (Poland)
          Thesis:Subduction processes recorded by the Baltica outer margin in the Scandinavian Caledonides”
          Supervisor: Prof. Jarosław Majka

2016 – MSc in Geology  -  applied mineralogy and petrology
          Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław (Poland)
          Thesis: „Sulfides from mantle xenoliths hosted in basalts of the Lower Silesia, Poland”
          Supervisor: Prof. Jacek Puziewicz

2014 – BSc in Geology
          Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Wrocław, Wrocław (Poland)
          Supervisor: Prof. Jacek Puziewicz

Professional career:

August 2021 now
          Position: Assistant professor
          Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGS-PAS)
          Kraków Research Centre, Kraków (Poland)

May 2021 – July 2021
          Position: Research assistant
          Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (IGS-PAS)
          Kraków Research Centre, Kraków (Poland)

October 2020 – December 2020
          Position: Research assistant
          Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry,
          Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection,
          AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków (Poland)

October 2019 – October 2020
          Position: Intern researcher
          Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute
          Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) & University of Granada, Armilla (Granada, Spain)
          Internship founded by the Iwanowska programme of thePolish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA)

October 2016 – June 2021
          Position: PhD candidate
          Department of Mineralogy, Petrography and Geochemistry,
          Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection,
          AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków (Poland)

Publications:

Peer-reviewed papers:

Fassmer, K., Froitzheim, N., Janák, M., Strohmeyer, M., Bukała, M., Lagos, M., Münker, C. (2021). Diachronous arc-continent collision in the Seve Nappe Complex: Evidence from Lu-Hf geochronology of eclogites (Norrbotten, North Sweden). Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 39(7), 819-842, doi: 10.1111/jmg.12591

Barnes, C.J., Majka, J., Bukała, M., Nääs, E., Rousku, S. (2021). Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of a metasomatic calc-silicate in the Tsäkkok Lens, Scandinavian Caledonides. Geology, Geophysics & Environment, 47(1), 21-31, doi: 10.7494/geol.2021.47.1.21

Bukała. M., Barnes, C.J., Jeanneret, P., Hidas, K., Mazur, S., Almqvist, B.S.G., Kośmińska, K., Klonowska, I., Šurka, J., Majka, J. (2020a). Brittle deformation during eclogitization of early Paleozoic blueschist. Frontiers in Earth Science, 8:594452, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.594453

Bukała, M., Majka, J., Walczk, K., Włodek, A., Schmitt, M., Zagórska, A. (2020b). U-Pb zircon dating of migmatitic paragneisses and garnet amphibolites form the high-pressure Seve Nappe Complex in Kittalfjäll, Swedish Caledonides. Minerals. 10(4). doi: 10.3390/min10040295

Barnes, C. J., Jeanneret, P., Kullerud, K., Majka, J., Schneider, D. A., Bukała, M., Klonowska, I. (2020). Exhumation of the high‐pressure Tsäkkok Lens, Swedish Caledonides: Insights from the structural and white mica 40Ar/39Ar geochronological record. Tectonics, 39(7), e2020TC006242, doi: 10.1029/2020TC006242

Holmberg, J., Bukała, M., Jeanneret, P., Klonowska, I., Majka, J. (2019). Decompressional equilibration of the Midsund granulite from Otrøy, Western Gneiss Region, Norway. Geologica Carpathica, 70(6), 471-482. doi: 10.2478/geoca-2019-0027

Barnes, C.J., Majka, J., Schneider, D., Walczak, K., Bukała, M., Kośmińska, K., Tokarski, T., Karlsson, A. (2019). High-spatial resolution dating of monazite and zircon reveals timing of subduction-exhumation of the Vaimok Lens in the Seve Nappe Complex (Scandinavian Caledonides). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 174, 5, doi: 10.1007/s00410-018-1539-1

Bukała, M., Klonowska, I., Barnes, C.J., Majka, J., Kośmińska, K., Janák, M., Fassmer, K., Broman, C., Luptáková, J. (2018). UHP metamorphism recorded by phengite eclogite from the Caledonides of northern Sweden: P-T path and tectonic implications. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 36(5) 547-566doi: 10.1111/jmg.12306

Wojtulek, P.M., Puziewicz, J., Ntaflos, T., Bukała, M. (2016) Podiform chromitites from the Variscan ophiolite serpentinites of Lower Silesia (SW Poland): petrologic and tectonic setting implications. Geological Quarterly, 60(1), 56-66, doi: 10.7306/gq.1238

Selected awards and achievements

2022     Award for the best PhD thesis in the field of mineralogy and petrology given by the Mineralogical Society of Poland (PTMin)
2019     Scholarship for the best PhD student at AGH University of Science and Technology
2018     Ryszard Kryza Young Researcher Award – for the best oral presentation at
              25th Meeting of the Petrology Group of the Mineralogical Society of Poland (Poland)
2017     Award for the best poster presentation at 12th International Eclogite Conference (Sweden)
2015    Scholarship of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education - for the best students in Poland
2014     Leader and organizer of the Student Geological Expedition "Scandinavia 2014" awarded as
              „2nd Students' Expedition of the Year" by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education