Associate Profesor 

Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
addres: Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw
phone: +48 22 6915-862, e-mail: kochanek@igf.edu.pl

education

• Since 2012 the Habilitation in the Earth sciences in geophysics, subject: hydrology;

• Doctor of technical sciences, graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology in 2003. The title of the thesis was: ‘The evaluation of the selected methods of water management decision making in the vicinity of open cast mines’, I was supervised by Profes-sor Marek Nawalany. The thesis was reviewed by Professors Andrzej Kraszewski and Andrzej Sa-durski. I achieved excellent mark for the thesis and the dissertation;

• Master of business administration, graduated from Warsaw University of Technology Business School in 2000;
• Master of Science, engineer, graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology in 1997. I was supervised by Professor Marek Nawalany. I achieved excel-lent mark for the thesis and the dissertation defence.

Employement

• Since October 2019: Coordinator of the GeoPlanet Doctoral School at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-Dean at the International Environmental Doctoral School on behalf of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Since January 2019: Secretary in the Presidium of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
• Since October 2018: Head of doctoral studies at the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
• February 2015 - September 2016: Assistant professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Petrochemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology, branch in Płock - scientific work in the field of hydrology as well as lectures and exercises in hydrology, water management, hydraulics, environmental protection, geophysics and specialised English.
• April 2010 - October 2011: Engineer at L'institut de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement «Cemagref» (now IRSTEA) in Lyon, France - scientific work on statistical hydrology.
• February - December 2009: Manager of the IT and research project: "Development and implementation of a computer system for collecting, storing, processing and on-line sharing  environmental data" - project management, research, design and programming of databases and algorithms for the classification of water bodies.
• June 2007 - June 2008: Post – doc at the Centre for Water Resources Research, School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin in Ireland - scientific work on decision support systems.
• Since January 2003: in the Department of Water Resources (currently Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics) of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IGF) first as an assistant then from October the same year as an assistant professor and from September 2012 as a professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences. At the IGF, I joined a research team led by Professor Witold G. Strupczewski.
• October 1997 - June 2003: doctoral studies at the Institute of Environmental Engineering Systems, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology. As part of my studies, I conducted laboratory classes and auditorium exercises in the following subjects: basics of IT techniques, including programming and numerical methods, fundamentals of system theory and Geographic Information Systems.
• May 2002 - December 2002: Senior inspector in the Water Management Office - IT department, office work, GIS analysis.
• September 1997 - September 2001: PhD student at the Institute of Environmental Engineering Systems, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology - didactic activity - conducting classes with students in the following subjects: basics of computer science, spatial information systems, basics of system theory.