Monika Kusiak
EAG Secretary
Monika Agnieszka Kusiak is a professor at the Department of Polar and Marine Research at the Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences and head of the ‘Geoprocessing Belsk Laboratory, GeoBeLa.’ Her research focuses on the application of isotope geochemistry, mainly U-Th-Pb, to understand the evolution of the Earth’s oldest rocks, which are mostly found in present-day polar regions. Her particular interests lie in the processes of the ‘young’ Earth during its early formation stage. She has participated in 12 polar expeditions: to Antarctica, Greenland, Labrador, and Svalbard. As a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Foundation for Polish Science, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, she has conducted research in Japan, Australia, Sweden and Germany. As a receiver of the Fulbright Senior Award, she started her adventure at NASA to work on martian and lunar samples. She is a member of editorial board of the Precambrian Research. For recognition of her science, she received the Bronze Cross of Merit.