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.