prof. dr hab. inż. Monika A. Kusiak

• od 2025 – European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), secretary
• od 2024 – Member of International Advisory Board, Nagoya University, Japan
• od 2024 – Member of Internatinal CasaMOON project
• od 2024 – Member of International Arctic Science Committee, Research Priority Team 4: Scientific cooperation and diplomacy, International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP) due to the 5^th International Year planning (IPY) 2032/33
• od 2024 – Member of Committee of Geological Sciences PAS
• 2021-2024 – Secretary of Committee of Mineralogical Sciences PAS
• od 2023 – Member of the PhD Committee of the IG PAS
• od 2021 – Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Geophysics PAS
• od 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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.

Principal Investigator:

• 2024-2029        At the crossroads: Continental Connection with the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica. NCN MAESTRO.
• 2024-2025        The Nature and Origin of Earth’s Earliest Crust: from a Martian and Lunar Perspective. Fulbright Program.
• 2023-2026        Invisible daughters. Survival of Pb in minerals. NCN OPUS.
• 2020-2024        Poles together – missing link between Arctic and Antarctic early Earth record. NCN GRIEG.
• 2017-2020       Window into the earliest crust – isotopic characterisation of the Enderby and Kemp Land, Antarctica. NCN OPUS.
• 2017-2019        Preservation versus perturbation: zircon chemistry at the micro- and nano-scale and its implication. Humboldt Foundation.
• 2015-2018        North Labrador – deciphering of early Earth processes. NCN OPUS.
• 2013                 Mobilisation of trace elements in zircon with implications for the dating of metamorphic rocks. Australian Synchrotron.
• 2011-2014        The Earth in Transition: from Earliest Crust to Earliest Preserved Rocks. 7^th Frame Programme, MSCA IOF.
• 2011                Chemical dating and EMP characterization of monazite standards. G08.
• 2011                Earliest preserved rocks in the Napier Complex, Antarctica. KE,   SYNTHESIS.
• 2007-2010        Monazites and zircons as micro-recorders of geological history. FNP.
• 2005-2007        Identification of source terrain-forming rocks on the basis of detrital monazites CHIME dating from the Upper Silesia Coal Basin and from crystalline rocks of the Bohemian Massif. JSPS.
• 2003-2004        Identification of source terrain-forming rocks on the basis of REE fractionation in detrital monazites from the Upper Silesia Coal Basin. KBN.
• 2000-2001        Age and geochemical characteristics of monazites provenance indicator for detrital material from the Upper Silesia Coal Basin. KBN.

Menager:

• 2011-2014       Action Towards Laboratories Enhancement and Know-How Exchange for Advanced Research on Geosystem “ATLAB”. 7^th Framework Program REGPOT-2011 EU; Establishing of the Center of Excellence in the ING PAN; PI: M. Lewandowski

Scientific Investigator:

• 2024-2025        Bilateral initiative aiming at Harmonisation of the Svalbard cooperation (HarSval). PI: B. Luks, K. Michalski
• 2023-24            Asteroidal source(s) of L chondrites and its collisional evolution – U, Pb geochemistry of phosphates of meteorite Antonin. Europlanet. PI: A. Krzesińska
• 2022-2025        Creation and recycling of crust in Archean Antarctica. PI: D.J. Dunkley
• 2020-2025        Determinig the Extent and Nature of the Oldest Crust in Antarctica. Australian Antarctic Program. PI: S. A. Wilde
• 2018-2019        BARCODE: correlating the last fragments of the early Earth. PI: D.J. Dunkley
• 2017                 Geological evolution of the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula in the light of paleoclimatic changes. PI: K.P. Krajewski
• 2017                 Accessory minerals in chondrites – thermal history. PI: A. Krzesińska
• 2012-2017        The Changing Early Earth. UNESCO IGCP-SIDA 599. PI: J. Haala
• 2010-2011       Geochronology of the Cape Melville Formation on the King George Island, Western Antarctica. PI: K.P. Krajewski
• 2009-2011        Structural deformation and metamorphism of the Shilu ore deposit in Changjiang, Hainan Province, China, and their relationship to Fe-, Co- and Cu-polymetallic metallogenesis. PI: N. Bakun-Czubarow.
• 2009-2010        Episodic flow of diagenetic brines through the Mesoproterozoic the Belt-Purcell Supergroup: constraints from the chemical dating of monazite and geochemistry. PI: I. Gonzalez-Alvarez.
• 2008-2009        Coal-bearing rocks of the Upper Silesia Coal Basin as gas loggers outside areas known as coal basins in Poland. PI: M. Paszkowski
• 2006-2007        Age contrasts between isotopic chronometers in a granulite terrane: timing metamorphism in the Higo Complex, Japan. PI: K. Suzuki
• 2004-2006        Geochemistry of the Belt-Purcell Supergroup, western North America: Provenance and diagenetic implications. PI: R. Kerrich
• 2004-2005        Geochronology of the crystalline basement of the Western Outer Carpathians` source areas. PI: P. Poprawa
• 2002-2003        Old-red facies in Poland – depositional system, tectonic position and provenance. PI: M. Paszkowski
• 2000     Provenance of the Miocene heavy minerals of the Biszcza-Księżpol Pre-Carphathian Foredeep. PI: M. Paszkowski