Education:

  • 1986 – MSc, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University (Gravitational waves in the Universe filled with massive, noninteracting particles)
  • 1993 – PhD, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Fault zone dynamics. Evolution patterns)
  • 2005 – Post-doctoral degree (habilitation), Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Interactive dynamics of a heterogeneous seismic source. A model with the slip-dependent friction)

Employment

  • 1988 till present at the Instititute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences;
  • 1994 – assistant professor;
  • 2005 – associate professor;
  • 2008 – head of the Earth Interior’s Dynamics Laboratory.

Experience

  • January 1998 – December 1999: at Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, JSPS fellowship.
  • August 1991 – August 1992: at Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stuttgart University, DAAD fellowship.

Research interests

  • physics of earthquakes,
  • seismic source models,
  • computer simulations of earthquakes,
  • earthquake statistic,
  • seismic parameters,
  • earthquake scaling,
  • seismic forecasts and hazard.

Selected publications