Special session

"Meteorite Morasko - the largest iron meteorite shower in Central Europe"

Mirosław Makohonienko
Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
 

Dr. Mirosław Makohonienko obtained his Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland in 1998. He is geologist and archaeologist specialised in Quaternary palaeoecology, biogeography and environmental archaeology. His main interest concerns history of vegetation changes, natural and cultural landscape development, man-environment interactions. In 1992-1993 he obtained research scholarship in the Quaternary Department of Lund University, Sweden. In 1994 he worked at Christian Albrechts Univeristy in Kiel, Germany in the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology. In the years 1998-2001 he obtained scholarship at Kyoto University and International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. In 2005 was a research fellow in IRCJS under the guidance of Professor Yoshinori Yasuda. In that time he participated in numerous expeditions in East Asia – in China, Korea and Japan. His habilitation thesis written in 2009 concerned natural and anthropogenic vegetation changes in north-east China during Holocene. He is author or co-author of over 120 scientific articles and chapters in monographs, author of four books and co-editor of several monographs. Co-founder of the Association of Environmental Archaeology in Poland, twice elected as its president. He organized over 20 domestic and several international conferences dedicated to Quaternary environmental changes. Presently, he has position of professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Head of the Department of Quaternary Geology and Palaeogeography and deputy-director of the Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation at the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences.