摘要：Marek Doktor (Fig. 1) was born on June 9th, 1949, in Biała Krakowska. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to Kraków and here he attended the Tadeusz Kościuszko Comprehensive High School. In 1967, he enrolled as a full-time student at the AGH University of Science and Technology, in the Department of Geological Exploration and studied the Mining Geology degree programme. He graduated cum laude in 1972 with an Engineering Master’s degree in Mining Geology, having specialized in Geological and Chemical Resources. He carried out his master’s research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ing. Józef Poborski, and his thesis was entitled “Salt Deposits in the area of Wojnicz on the Dunajec River”. The results of his thesis appeared in print shortly afterwards. In the same year, he took up a position in the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1980. His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled “Sedimentation of the gravel sediments in the Miocene of the Carpathian Foredeep” and his supervisor was Prof. Dr. Hab. Ryszard Gradziński. Marek was awarded his habilitation diploma in 2009 by the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH, for his dissertation, entitled “Conditions of accumulation and sedimentary architecture of the Cracow Sandstone Series (upper Westphalian) Upper Silesia Coal Basin, Poland” and on the basis of his entire teaching and research portfolio. His habilitation thesis was published in 2007 in the Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, and in 2008 it received the Ludwik Zejszner Award of the Polish Geological Society.
