Professor Leszek Lindner – scientific profile and achievements

Born on July 10, 1938 in Warsaw, an outstanding Polish geologist, expert in Quaternary geology, stratigraphy and palaeogeography, and geological mapping, a polar explorer, full professor of the University of Warsaw, the long-term vice-chair of the Committee for Quaternary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Central Qualification Committee for Scientific Degrees and the Title. Chair of the Department of Quaternary Geology (1976–2010), vice-director (1981–1984) and director of the Institute of Geology at the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw (1984–1987). Supervisor of 6 doctors, 70 gra duate1 and 4 undergraduate students. Conducted research activities in Spitsbergen, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Belarus, and in many regions of Poland. Author and co-author of over 420 scientific papers, including over a dozen monographs. Decorated with the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1988) and the Medal of the Commission of National Education (1995). Decorated with several awards for scientific and educational activities, i.e., the Medal of the Constructor of the Central Railway Route (1977), 3rd level Award of the Minister of Science, Higher Education and Technics for his habilitation thesis (1978), the Wawrzyniec Teisseyre’s Award of the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Mining of the Polish Academy of Sciences for publications devoted to Quaternary stratigraphy in the Holy Cross Mountains area (1982), Award of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences for participation in activities devoted to the methodology of constructing photogeological maps (1988), Award of the Minister of National Education for educationalscientific achievements (1990), and Award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the monograph Czwartorzęd – osady, metody badań, stratygrafia2 Leszek Lindner, 2008.