Mentors

Michael Petronis is Professor of geology and has extensive expertise in paleomagnetism, volcanology, rock-magnetism, and geologic mapping. He maintains a strong field-based research program involving several graduate and undergraduate students. He has conducted field AMS and paleomagnetic investigations in NW Scotland and Ireland, Precambrian paleomagnetic studies in the high-Arctic of Svalbard, Norway, and China, volcanic studies in the Chaîne des Puys, France, Czech Republic, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, California, and Utah. He brings over 15 years experience in rock and paleomagnetism and the application of the AMS technique. He maintains a state-of-the-art paleomagnetic-rock magnetism laboratory at NMHU and has all required field equipment for sample collection. He has a proven record of mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students and has published several papers with students.

  Marek Awdankiewicz is a geologist specialized in studies of volcanic rocks in ancient successions. He carried out research mainly in the Sudetes in the eastern part of the Variscan Belt, working on metabasites and other Lower Paleozoic metavolcanic rocks, Permo-Carbonifeorus volcanites and lamprophyres, as well as Cenozoic basalts. Using the results of field work, petrographic and mineralogical methods, geochemistry and isotope geochemistry as well as U-Pb zircon dating he tries to reconstruct the evolution of ancient volcanic systems in the context of their tectonic and environmental setting. He is professor of geology and the head of the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology at the University of Wrocław. He carries out lectures and laboratory and field courses in general geology, petrology, mineralogy, igneous geochemistry and volcanology. 

Sam Poppe is an expert on planetary volcanology. He carries out research in volcano deformation processes through scaled laboratory experiments, numerical modelling, field work on active and extinct volcanoes in the Comores archipelago, East-DR Congo and Rwanda, Norway, and Poland, and remote observations of Mars and the Moon. His "DeMo-Planet project" combined field observations at trachyandesite intrusions in the Sudetes with numerical models. His mentor roles include guidance around the quarries in SW Poland visited by IRES, instructing on structural geology field methods, and collecting drone-based imagery to produce virtual outcrops of the field sites. He is assistant professor at the Mars Exploration Laboratory of the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

 
Tomek is a recent geologist (PhD 2015) at CU/AoS. His direct IRES mentor roles include structural aspect of magma flow and emplacement in shallow crustal and volcanic environments. His research covers studies of volcano-plutonic-tectonic interactions on the example of granitic plutons, collapse calderas, lava domes and ignimbrite sheets. His field work includes several volcano-plutonic complexes in Bohemian Massif, Western Carpathians, and North American Cordillera. Other IRES mentoring roles include field and structural mapping, textural and microstructural analysis, AMS, and U-Pb zircon geochronology. 

 Kristof Verner is an expert on magma emplacement and structural geology at the CGS, Prague, Czech Republic. He is a field oriented researchers who studies structural geology and tectonics, emplacement of magmatic rocks and the interplay between magmatic and tectonic processes. His direct IRES mentoring expertise include the application AMS, electron backscatter diffraction methods, petrology of magmatic rocks, and geological mapping of the magmatic complexes and high-grade rocks. His experience and expertise will provide strong support to the IRES students in linking the measured AMS fabrics with the rock petrography and interpreting the data. He is the current President of the Czech Geological Society. 

Jiri Žák is Professor of Geology at CU and Director of the Continental Tectonics Group. His IRES mentoring expertise covers a wide range of topics related to geologic evolution of continental crust from magmatic systems from migmatites through batholiths to surface volcanic processes, with a particular focus on tectonic setting and emplacement of granite plutons. Other research he has directed is related to dynamics of Precambrian accretionary wedges and mélange formation. He has pursued various tectonic studies in ancient collisional orogens and active margins in Europe, North America, and Antarctica with collaborations with a broad research network established with numerous colleagues from the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, and United States. His IRES mentoring activities include detailed field mapping, AMS, U-Pb geochronology, petrology, geochemistry, and numerical modeling.Type your paragraph here.