Curriculum Vitae - Jacek Stankiewicz Full Name: Jacek Maciej Stankiewicz Date of Birth: 12 August 1976 Place of Birth: Warsaw, Poland Nationalities: Polish, South African Languages spoken: Polish, English, German Current Position: Marie Curie Fellow European Centre for Geodynamics and Seimology 19 rue Josy Welter Walferdange 7256 Email: jacek@ecgs.lu Tel: +352 331487 45 Fax: +352 331487 88 Residential Address: 130b Route de Diekirch Helmsange 7220 Private Tel: +352 691 774 961 Family Status: Married with 2 children
Education Welkom High School, South Africa. Matriculated in 1994 with distinctions in Mathematics, Physical Science, Additional Mathematics and Polish 2 nd language (as A- level through British Council), also 'A' aggregate. Other subjects: Geography, Computer Science, Business Economics and English 1 st Language. Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics (secondary subjects: Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics and Geology) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, completed and awarded in December 1997. Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cape Town, completed and awarded in first class in December 1998. Master of Science degree in Geology (University of Cape Town), conducting research at UCT as well as at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and MIT (as part of the multiinstitutional Kaapvaal Craton Project). Thesis title: Converted phases in relation to deep seismic structures in the upper mantle of Southern Africa. Project supervisor: Prof. Maarten de Wit. Degree awarded in June 2001. Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Faculty of Science, University of Cape Town. Thesis title: African river basins: their present geometry and recent past as a framework for their evolution. Project supervisors: Prof. Maarten de Wit, Dr Moctar Doucouré. Degree awarded in December 2004. Computer Software Skills Familiar with Linux, Windows and Mac Operating Systems Matlab Java Microsoft Office Open Office Arc View CorelDraw Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
Employment and Research History Anglo Gold Corporation, Welkom, South Africa, November 1995 February 1996. Seismic data processing. Vaal Reefs Mining, Klerksdorp, South Africa, November 1996 February 1997. Computer programming in the seismic department. University of Cape Town student assistant: 1997-2001 Physics course tutor and laboratory demonstrator 2002-2005 Geology field trip demonstrator 2003-2004 Centre for Interactive and Graphical Computing computer laboratory administrator Carnegie Institution of Washington, March and June-August, 1999. Visiting scientist in Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, working with experts in geophysics in the framework of my MSc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September-November 2000 and May-June 2002. Visiting scientist in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science Department, working with experts in seismology and hydrology in the framework of my MSc and PhD studies. University of Cape Town Department of Geology, 2004-2006. NRF Postdoctoral Research Fellow: developing methods to estimate future water supply in Africa. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 2006-2013: Scientist in the department Physics of the Earth, contracted on various projects: 2006-2008 Inkaba ye Africa, a German South African collaborative Earth Science Initiative. Analysis and interpretation of seismic data collected in South Africa. 2008-2009 Dead Sea Integrated Research Project (DESIRE) Analysis of magnetotelluric data collected in the Middle East. 2009-2011 Helmholtz Russia Joint Research Project 110: Seismic tomography algorithms for Fundamental and Applied Purposes. Development of techniques for joint interpretation of various geophysical datasets; development of methods for extracting coherent signal from seismic noise. 2012-2013 Potsdam Research Cluster for GeoRisk Analysis, Environmental Change and Sustainability (PROGRESS). Design of optimal Earthquake warning systems and structural monitoring in Central Asia. European Centre for Geodynamics and Seismology,. Since 2013 Marie Curie Fellow. Project title: Spectral methods used for development and implementation of Earthquake Early Warning Systems.
Geophysical Field Campaigns Kaapvaal Craton: Deployment of a seismological array in South Africa, 1998. Inkaba ye Africa: Magnetotelluric experiments in South Africa, 2004-2006. I-GET: Magnetotelluric experiments in north Germany, 2006-2008. CyprusArc: Deployment of stations for a controlled source seismic profile, Cyprus, 2010. Station maintenance of a seismological network on Sumatra, Indonesia, 2011. Deployment of a seismological monitoring network in Tulbagh/Ceres region, South Africa, 2012. Installation of stations for earthquake response, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2012. Station maintenance and array measurements for site effects, Tajikistan, 2012. Maintenance of stations of the national seismological network,, since 2013. Selected Publications de Wit, M.J. & Stankiewicz, J., 2006. Water for Africa: potential changes in perennial drainage systems with predicted precipitation changes. Science, 311, 1917-1921. Stankiewicz, J., Parsiegla, N., Ryberg, T., Gohl, K., Weckmann, U., Trumbull, R. & Weber, M.H., 2008. Crustal Structure of the Southern Margin of the African Continent: Results from Geophysical Experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B10313, doi:10.1029/2008jb005612. de Wit, M.J., Stankiewicz, J. & Reeves, C.V., 2008 Restoring Pan African- Brasiliano connections: more Gondwana control, less Trans-Atlantic corruption. In: Pankhurst, R. J., Trouw, R. A. J., Brito Neves, B. B. & De Wit, M. J. (eds) West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic Correlations Across the South Atlantic Region. Geological Society, London, Special Publication, 294, 399 412. Stankiewicz, J., Ryberg, T., Haberland, C., Fauzi & Natawidjaja, D., 2010. Lake Toba volcano magma chamber imaged by ambient seismic noise tomography. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L17306, doi:10.1029/2010gl044211. Stankiewicz, J., Bindi, D., Oth., A. & Parolai, S., 2013. Designing efficient earthquake early warning systems: case study of Almaty, Kazakhstan. Journal of Seismology, 17, 1125-1137, doi: 10/1007/s10950-013-9381-4. Complete list of 26 scientific publications available on request.
References Prof. Maarten de Wit AEON, Dept of Geology Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Port Elizabeth South Africa maarten.dewit(at)nmmu.ac.za Prof. Michael Weber Director: Physics of the Earth Department. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam Germany mhw(at)gfz-potsdam.de Dr Adrien Oth Scientific Director: European Centre for Geodynamics and Seismology Walferdange adrien.oth(at)ecgs.lu