GADAM Centre staff members
- Director of Gadam Centre
- Prof. Dr. hab. Anna Pazdur: M.Sc. in physics (1969), D.Ph. in
physics (1977), D.Sc. habilitation in geology (1990), Professor title in
Geology 2000. Experience at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, SUT:
since 1969 senior assistant, adjunct since 1978, associate professor
since 1994, full professor since 2001. Lecturer in general physics,
nuclear physics, detection of nuclear rays and isotope geochemistry. The
head of the Department of Radioisotopes, head of Gliwice Radiocarbon
Laboratory and GADAM Centre of Excellence.
Main activities: low level radioactivity measurements, radiocarbon
dating, isotopes in environmental studies, statistical treatment of
experimental data and data analysis. Has published more than 50 papers
in international reviewed journals and more than 150 of other papers and
reports, author or co-author of several chapters in monographs, author
of one monograph, co-editor of one monograph. Took part in organising
national several conferences and one international conference. Chairman
of Organising Committee of 7th International Conference "Methods on
Absolute Chronology", April 2001, Ustroñ, Poland, Editor-in-Chief of
Journal on Methods and Applications of Absolute Chronology
"Geochronometria".
- Deputy Director
- Dr. hab. Andrzej Bluszcz:
Eng. in microelectronics (1976 -
Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice), M.Sc. in technical physics
(1976 - SUT, Gliwice), D.Ph. in geophysics (1987 - Academy of Mining and
Metallurgy, Cracow), D.Sc. habilitation in earth sciences (geology and
geochronology - 2000 - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznañ). Experience
at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Silesian University of Technology
since 1976: junior assistant, assistant, senior assistant, adjunct, and
assistant professor since 2001. Lecturer in general physics, dosimetry
and radiological protection, computer simulations of processes and
measurements. The head of the Luminescence Dating Laboratory (research)
and of the students Laboratory for Experimental Methods of Nuclear
Physics and Application of Radioisotopes (education).
Vice-Director for Science of the Institute of Phisics.
Main activities:
low level radioactivity measurements, radiocarbon dating (conventional
technique), luminescence dating, spectrometry and dosimetry of natural
radiation, statistical treatment of experimental data and data analysis,
computer controlled measurement equipment for use in low level
radioactivity measurements and luminescence measurements. Has published
more than 40 papers in reviewed journals and a similar number of other
papers and reports, author or co-author of several chapters in
monographs, author of one monograph, o-editor of one monograph,
co-author of two student textbooks, Consulting-Editor of the specialist
journal Geochronometria. Took part in organising several conferences and
organised two international conference.
- Advisory Board Honour Members
- Stanis³aw Ha³as,
head of Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Maria
Curie - Sk³odowska University, Lublin, Poland. Laboratory take part in
calibration of standards in IAEA programmes and elaborating of new methods
and improvements for isotopic analyses of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and
sulphur in the lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere, in research of
isotopic effects in environmental and in laboratory conditions and isotope
geochronology based on 40K decay to 40Ar.
Helena Hercman,
head of U-Series Laboratory in Institute of
Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Laboratory carry out research in the fields of complex isotopic analyses of
long stalagmites (U-Series dating, stable isotope and palaeomagnetic
analyses), statistical analyses of isotopic and microluminescence data for
palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and modelling - special software
development, Sr-Sr stratigraphy, U-Series dating of lake sediments,
isotopic analyses of lead contaminations.
- GADAM Centre's International Advisory Board
- Michel Fontugne,
Director of Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
Environnement, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. The Radiocarbon Unit in Gif
sur Yvette is one of the leading radiocarbon laboratories in the world.
The GADAM Centre has established links with the CNRS with respect to
exchange of students and staff (two of our graduate students and then a
PhD student) who were there on a medium term stays, and co-operation in
the field of 14C dating for environmental studies and archaeology. The
CNRS Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit performs radiocarbon dating using AMS
and conventional technology and our Centre will certainly benefit from
closer contacts with its Director.
Mebus A. Geyh,
professor emeritus, former Director of Nidersächsisches
Landesamt für Bodenforschung, Hannover, Germany. Mebus Geyh is one of
the most famous scientists and in the field of absolute dating methods
all over the world. His original papers about radiocarbon and U/Th
dating methodology are very well known to all scientists in this field.
One of the important and main activities of his present scientific
research is application of dating results to Earth sciences and
archaeology, and fundamental aspects of statistical analysis of data set
for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Our Centre will certainly
benefit from contacts with this outstanding man.
Irka Hajdas,
Research Associate at PSI/ETH AMS Lab, Zurich, Switzerland.
The PSI/ETH tandem accelerator facility at the ETH/PSI, equipped with the
EN tandem Van de Graaff accelerator serves as a national and international centre for AMS.
Her research interests focus on:
AMS 14C dating and its applications in archaeology and climate research,
as well as other problems connected to sample preparation and production
of reliable ages, calibration problems;
time scales of climatic records of the past 40,000 years and dating of
climatic events, correlation between records based on chronological information;
calibration issues of the radiocarbon time scale, changes in atmospheric 14C content
over the past 40,000 years.
Högne Jungner,
Director of the Dating Laboratory, Finnish Museum of
Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland. The Dating Laboratory
at the Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, is
very similar to the GADAM Centre in that it also carries out radiocarbon
and luminescence dating, and is affiliated at the higher education
institution. The GADAM Centre has good personal relations with the
Finnish Laboratory and we already collaborated within the Tempus
programme. The very good scientific standing and the physical proximity
makes it our choice for a twin centre and its Director a member of the
Advisory Board.
Andrew Murray,
Director of the Nordic Laboratory for Luminescence
Dating, Risø, Denmark. The Nordic Laboratory is one of the principal
providers of luminescence dates in Europe, and is widely regarded as one
of the world's leading research laboratories in the field. We already
collaborate closely with the Danish laboratory, in both scientific
visits and student exchange. The excellent scientific standing and the
physical proximity makes it our choice for a twin centre and its
Director a member of the Advisory Board.
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