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 focusing on energy research, critical elements, and biomass fuels. Agnieszka has received a prestigious grant of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange within Polish Returns Programme and in the fall of 2022, she assumed a research position at the University of Silesia and the Centre for Biomass Energy Research and Education in Katowice, Poland.

Biomass energy , Quality of solid biomass, Energy utilization, Impact of emissions on human safety and environment, Critical elements, GIS/databases, 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

• Solid Biomass Energy
• Carbon Ore, Rare Earth and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative for U.S., Basins
• Assessment of geologic and hydrogeologic properties of formations within the Indiana portion of the Illinois Basin for geologic energy storage
• Data Preservation: Priority 2 –Strategic planning for data preservation related to coal-coal waste-coal combustion products chain in Indiana
• Shale Gas: Geochemical and Physical Constraints on Genesis, Storage, and Producibility