Krystyna Piotrowska

Krystyna Piotrowska (5 July 193826 January 2022) was a Polish geologist, cartographer, professor of earth sciences and researcher of the Tatra Mountains. A practitioner of summer and winter mountaineering, she remained scientifically involved in the geology of the Tatra Mountains for more than 50 years.

Biography Krystyna Antonina Piotrowska was born in 1938 in Lutsk (now Ukraine) and with the start of World War II, she moved with her family to Warsaw.

She was employed at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 1971), at the Jan Kochanowski Institute of Geography of the Świętokrzyska Academy (from 1994 to 2002) and at the Polish Geological Institute (since 1 January 1995). Since 1996, she was a member of the Ministerial Commission for Cartographic Studies.

In her professional associations, she undertook the assessment of scientific achievements and the assessment of applications for the award of scientific degrees, as well as the review of cartographic studies and articles. During her academic career, she promoted two PhD students.

Honors Golden Cross of Merit (2005) Golden Badge of the Polish Geological Institute (2013) Honorary Badge of Merit for Polish Geology

Memberships She was a member of many Scientific Councils (ING PAN, PIG-PIB, CESLA UW), the Council of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Academy of Silesia, the Committee of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Commission for Acceptance of Cartographic Studies, the Editorial Board of the Geological Quarterly, the Editorial Committee – Works of the PIG and Works of the Institute of Geography of the Świętokrzyska Academy, the Program Board of the Tatra Atlas and the Commission for Unification and the Editorial Board of the Geological Map of Cuba.

Selected publications She published many papers in Przegląd Geologiczny and wrote more than 60 scientific articles. Piotrowska, Krystyna. "Nappe structures in the Sierra de los Organos, western Cuba." Acta Geologica Polonica 28, no. 1 (1978): 97–170. Piotrowska, Krystyna. "Nappe structures in the Sierra de los Organos." Contribution to the Geology of Pinar del Río Province: Havana, Scientific and Technical Publishing (1987): 85–156. Piotrowska, Krystyna. "Bend, shear cracks and faults in the granitoid core of the Polish High Tatras." Przegląd Geologiczny 45, no. 9 (1997): 904–908. Dynamics of the Tatra Mountains determined by geodetic methods (co-author of the geological study; 2003) Detailed geological map of Poland (co-author)