Agnieszka received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland. As a graduate student, she was awarded the Stefan Batory Foundation Scholarship and she spent 6 months at the Indiana University. She moved to the USA and joined the Indiana Geological Survey in 2002. She has been working with scientists from USA and all over the world on a variety of collaborative geoscience projects. Her current projects focus on energy research, critical elements, and pellet fuels. She is a very active council member of The Society for Organic Petrology.

Coal geology and petrography, Coal utilization, GIS/databases, Critical elements, Pellet fuels , Optical microscopy and photography

• Comparison of hydrocarbon potentials of New Albany Shale and Maquoketa Shale in the eastern Illinois Basin
• Evaluation of geological characteristics of the New Albany Sghale as a potential liquids-from-shale play in the Illinois Basin
• New Albany Shale vitrinite reflectance
• Underground coal gasification--USA, Illinois Basin, and elsewhere
• Evaluation of geological characteristics of the New Albany Shale as a potential liquids-from-shale play in the Illinois Basin

• FY2020 USGS NGGDPP Grant: CARST: Collective Access & Resource Space Tandem for Simultaneous Management of Physical Sample Collections and Digital Assets
• POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL MINERALS IN COAL MINING PRODUCTS, BYPRODUCTS, AND REJECTS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE)
• FY2019 USGS NGGDPP Grant: IGWS FAIR Data Initiative 2019 – Geochemistry and Critical Minerals
• Data collection, verification, & encoding for the National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) YR 2/5
• Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Productibility