Professor Monika A. Kusiak

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

ul. Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa

tel. +48 22 6915 749

e-mail: monika.kusiak@igf.edu.pl

Wykształcenie:

  • 2021 Professor of Earth Sciences
  • 2021  Engineer Degree; Warsaw University of Life Sciences; Ecological Engineering
  • 2010  Habilitated Doctor in Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences 
  • 2009 Doctor in Earth Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Specialization: Geology
    *PhD awarded with distinction
  • 1996  Master of Science, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Specialization: Geochemistry and Mineralogy
  • 1995 Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Department of Applied Economics, One-year Management and Business Study

Interests / research topics:

  • Planetary Evolution
  • Early Earth processes
  • Isotope geochemistry
  • Micro- and nano-strcture of accessory minerals
Participation in national and international scientific organisations:  
  • from 2025     European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), secretary
  • from 2024    Member of International Advisory Board, Nagoya University, Japonia
  • from 2024     Member of Internatinal CasaMOON project
  • from 2024     Member of International Arctic Science Committee, Research Priority Team 4: Scientific cooperation and diplomacy, Działania International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) due to the 5th International Year planning (IPY) 2032/33
  • from 2024 Member of Committee of Geological Sciences PAS 
  • 2021-2024 Secretary of Committee of Mineralogical Sciences PAS
  • from 2023 Member of the PhD Committee of the IG PAS
  • from 2021 Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics PAS
  • from 2021 Establishing and leading of the Geoprocessing Belsk Laboratory (GeoBeLa) 
  • 2008-2018 Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geological Sciences PAS
  • 2012-2017 Continental secretary of the IGCP-SIDA 599 “The Changing Early Earth”
  • 2015-2016 Member of the PhD Committee for student fellowships
  • 2010-2011 Deputy Head of the Warsaw Research Center of the Institute of Geological Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences 
Major publications:

1. Kusiak, M.A., Wirth, R. Wilde, S.A., Pidgeon, R.T., 2023. Metallic lead (Pb) nanospheres discovered in Hadean and Eoarchean zircon crystals at Jack Hills. Scientific Reports 13:895. 

2. Kusiak, M.A., Kovaleva, E., Vanderliek, D., Becker, H., Wilke, F., Schreiber, A., Wirth, R. 2022. Nano- and microstructures in lunar zircon from Apollo 15 and 16 impactites: implications for age interpretations. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 177:112. 
3. Kusiak, M.A., Dunkley, D.J., Wilde, S.A., Whitehouse, M.J., Kemp, A.I.S., 2021. Eoarchean crust in East Antarctica: Extension from Enderby Land into Kemp Land. Gondwana Research, 93: 227-241. Doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.12.031.
4. Kusiak, M.A., Kovaleva, E., Wirth, R., Klötzli, U., Dunkley, D.J., Yi, K., Lee, S. – Pb nano-spheres in seismically deformed zircon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; 262, 20-30; doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.026
5. Kusiak, M.A., Dunkley, D.J., Whitehouse, M.J., Wilde, S.A., Sałacińska, A., Konečný, P., Szopa, K., Gawęda, A., Chew, A., 2018. Peak to post-peak thermal history of the Saglek Block of Labrador: a multiphase and multi-instrumental approach to geochronology. Chemical Geology, 484: 210-223. Doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.10.033
6. Kusiak, M.A., Dunkley, D.J., Kato, T., Sajeev, K., Mezger, K., 2018. A tribute to Professor Kazuhiro Suzuki, Chemical Geology Special Issue Accessory minerals and trace element geochemistry. Chemical Geology, 484: 1-3. Doi.org/10/1016/j.chemgeo.2018.03.033
7. Kusiak, M.A., Dunkley, D.J., Wirth, R., Whitehouse, M.J., Wilde, S.A., Marquardt, K., 2015. Metallic lead nanospheres discovered in ancient zircons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 16: 4958-4963.
8. Kusiak, M.A., Williams, I.S., Dunkley, D.J., Konečny, P., Słaby, E. & Martin, H. M. 2014. Monazite to the rescue: U-Th-Pb dating of the intrusive history of the composite Karkonosze pluton, Bohemian Massif. Chemical Geology 364: 76-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.11.016
9. Kusiak, M.A., Whitehouse, M.J., Wilde, S.A., Dunkley, D.J., Menneken, M., Nemchin, A.A., Clark, C., 2013. Changes in zircon chemistry during Archean UHT metamorphism in the Napier Complex, Antarctica. American Journal of Science 313: 933-967. Doi: 10.2475/09.2013.05
10. Kusiak, M.A., Whitehouse, M.J., Wilde, S.A., Nemchin, A.A., Clark, C., 2013. Mobilization of radiogenic Pb in zircon revealed by ion imaging: Implications for early Earth geochronology. Geology 41: 291-294. 
Projekty naukowe:
Kierownik: 
Awards: 
  • 2024  Fulbright Senior Award 
  • 2017-2019 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • 2016  Brown Cross of Merit 
  • 2015     MNiSW – Top 500 Innovators
  • 2011-2014 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the EC 7th Framework Programme 
  • 2011   Group of Eight (Go8) Fellowship
  • 2010 Foundation for Polish Science; HOMING
  • 2009 Gondwana Research; Best Paper Award
  • 2005-2007 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), fellowship
  • 2003 RN ING PAN; PhD distinction
  • 2003 European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS)
  • 2002 Foundation for Polish Science and Warsaw Scientific Association
  • 2000     The Matsumae International Foundation (MIF), scholarship
  • 2000 Foundation for Polish Science; START
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