PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Łukasz Musiaka

graduated geographical studies and postgraduate study in the field of GIS science. He works as an assistant professor at the Department of Political, Historical Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Lodz. Chairman and vice-chairman of the Łódź Branch of Polish Geographical Society. In his work combines urban geography, settlement morphology, cultural heritage and cultural tourism. His main morphological and urban geographical interests are focused on the spatial transformations of the cities after WWII, especially form the territory of the former East Prussia and so called Recovered Territorries in Poland. In broader context it covers the area of Central-Eastern and Western Europe. His urban morphological research, conducted mainly from the historico-geographical perspective based on Conzenian tradition, concerns both: morphogenesis of the Middle Age settlement and later spatial transformations. His second area of interest covers the study of cultural heritage which are mainly focused on tourism function and perception of architectura militaris in Poland and morphology of historical plans of urban and rural settlement. In his scientific work he uses mostly historico-geographical approach based on present and archival plans and maps analyses, conducted in a traditional way and with using of GIS methods.

• historical geography
• urban geography
• tourism geography
• morphology and morphogenesis of settlements
• post-war urban reconstruction
• cultural heritage
• military architecture

Education, academic degrees

• 2012-2013 – Postgraduate Study of Geoinformatics: Geographic Information Systems in practice, University of Lodz, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Geographical Sciences
• 2012 - PhD, University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, geography
• 2007 - 2011 – doctoral study, University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences
• 2007 - MSc in geography, University of Lodz, Faculty of Geographical Sciences

Academic career

• Since 1 October 2012 to date - assistant professor (adjunct) at the Department of Political and Historical Geography and Regional Studies, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz

Research projects

• 1.2022 – 2024 – IDUB – Granty UŁ Inicjatywa Doskonałości Uczelnia Badawcza - Modele przemian morfologicznych dużych miast dawnych Ziem Odzyskanych po 1945 roku, w kontekście wyzwań współczesnej polityki przestrzennej (Models of morphological transformations of large cities of the former Recovered Territories after 1945 in the context of challenges of the contemporary spatial policy) – Principal Investigator
• 2.2022 – 2024 – Opus 21 – Długofalowość procesów suburbanizacji wokół dużych miast Polski (HISTSUBURB) (Long-term nature of suburbanisation processes around large Polish cities), 2021/41/B/HS4/01407 - Co-Investigator
• 3.2022 – 2024 – BeethovenCLASSIC4– Polish-German Funding Initiative - Interdisciplinary Hillfort Studies at the Daugava River: Merging and Decoding Archaeological, Environmental and Linguistic Data (INHILLDAUGAR), 2020/39/G/HS3/01542- Co-Investigator
• 4.2022 – 2024 - Społeczna rola edukacji geograficznej w Polsce - dziedzictwo, odpowiedzialność, przyszłość, NdS/542984/2021/2022 (Social role of geographical education in Poland - heritage, responsibility, future) – Co-Invetigator
• 5.2019-2022 - Przemiany morfologiczne miast dawnych Prus Wschodnich po II wojnie światowej (Morphological changes in the towns of former East Prussia after World War II) – Narodowe Centrum Nauki 2019/03/X/HS4/00766 MINIATURA – Principal Investigator
• 6.2016 - Morfologia miast Zakonu Krzyżackiego w Polsce. Kontynuacja badań (Morphology of towns of the Teutonic Order in Poland. Continuation of research) - MNiSW 21893/E-345/M/2016 - Principal Investigator
• 7.2015 - Morfologia miast Zakonu Krzyżackiego w Polsce. Kontynuacja prac (Morphology of the cities of the Teutonic Order in Poland. Continuation of works) - MNiSW 21893/E-345/M/2015 - Principal Investigator
• 8.2014 - Morfologia miast Zakonu Krzyżackiego w Polsce. Zagadnienia wstępne (Morphology of cities of the Teutonic Order in Poland. Introductory issues) - MNiSW 21893/E-345/M/2014 - Principal Investigator
• 9.2013 - Wybrane aspekty wykorzystania militarnego dziedzictwa kulturowego zakonu krzyżackiego w Polsce (Selected aspects of the use of the military cultural heritage of the Teutonic Order in Poland) - MNiSW 21893/E-345/M/2013 - Principal Investigator
• 10.2012 - Systemowe wsparcie procesów zarządzania w JST współfinansowanego przez Unię Europejską ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego (Systemic support of management processes in territorial self-government units co-financed by the European Union from the resources of the European Social Fund) POKL.05.02.02-00-001/12 - Co-Investigator

Abroad and internship experience

• 2023 - Latvia (INHILLDAUGAR project), 3 weeks - researcher
• 2023 - Czechia (University of Ostrava), 1 week – lecturer
• 2023 - Slovenia (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts), 1 week – lecturer
• 2022 - Latvia (INHILLDAUGAR project) 3 weeks - researcher
• 2022 - Israel (University of Haifa, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies), 1 week - lecturer
• 2022 - Turkey (University of Mersin, Faculty of Architecture), 1 week – lecturer
• 2021 - Lithuania (Klaipėda University; NCN Miniatura project) - 2 weeks - researcher
• 2019 - Czechia (Charles University, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, The Research Centre for Cultural and Historical Geography), 1 week - lecturer
• 12.2019 - 06.2020 - research internship at the Institute of History and International Relations, Faculty of Humanities, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, on morphological changes of urban settlements in the area of former East Prussia – 6 months
• 2018 - Slovakia (Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences), 1 week - lecturer
• 2018 - Hungary (University of Pecs, Institute of Geography, Department of Political Geography, Regional and Development Studies), 1 week – lecturer
• 2018 - Estonia (University of Tartu, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences), Latvia, 2 weeks – lecturer and researcher
• 10-11.2011 - internship in the Office for Spatial Planning of the Łódź Province in the Department of Natural and Cultural Analyses – 1 month

Most important prizes and awards

•2023 - Bronze medal for academic service - a national decoration

•2023 - team award (Prof. Dr. P. Kittel - head, Dr. J. Sikora, Prof. UŁ, Dr. A. Ginter, Dr. Ł. Musiaka) in the competition " Bonus for grants obtained from external funds" edition III 2022, IDUB UŁ

•2022 - individual award of JM Rector of the University of Łódź for significant contribution to the evaluation of the quality of scientific activity at the University of Łódź in 2017-2021

•2022 - first degree award of JM Rector of the University of Łódź for a series of publications "Morphology, morphogenesis and spatial transformations of historical cities with special reference to the period after World War II"

•2022/2023 - 50% didactics reduction as a reward for scoring points for publication activity

•2021/2022 - 50% didactics reduction as a reward for scoring points for publication activities

•2020 - award from JM Rector of the University of Łódź for publication of 200 points within IDUB Programme of the University of Łódź

•2019 - 1st place in a competition for an urban-architectural concept for the revitalisation of a city park in Wolbrom (two-person competition team)

•2019 - 1st place in an architectural competition for the development of a detailed architectural concept for the development and functional and spatial improvement of the Mierzawa river bank (a three-person competition team)

•2018 - First place in the architectural competition for the development of a detailed architectural concept for the development of the market square in Działoszyce (three-person competition team

•2014 - Scientific Award of the Rector of the University of Lodz for the book: "Tourist function of medieval castles and its impact on the towns of Pomerania, Warmia and Mazury"

•2013 - 1st place in the competition for the best scientific poster at the 2nd All-Polish GIS in the Science Conference, Lublin: "Analysis of selected aspects of the location of medieval Teutonic, bishop and chapter castles in Warmia and Mazury using GIS tools".

•2013-2020 - award from the Dean of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź, for scientific and teaching achievements

•10.2012 - 03.2013 - a scholarship and a six-month internship as part of the Integrated Program of PhD students development programme, implemented by SDG Pro-Akademia (financed by the Marshal's Office in Łódź)

•2012 - Award of the Dean and Council of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź, for the doctoral thesis,

•10.2011 - 10.2012 - scholarship holder of the Integrated Doctoral Studies Programme

•Development implemented by SDG Pro-Academia (financed by the Marshal's Office in Łódź)

•2005 - congratulatory letter from the Rector of the University of Łódź

•Since 2008 - Incentive/Doctoral scholarship

•2005 - Congratulatory letter from JM Rector of the University of Łódź

•2000 - Scholarship of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland

Chosen didactics

• Post-war spatial transformation of Polish cities
• Cultural heritage of Polnd
• Cultural Heritage of Łódź
• Military cultural heritage of Poland – genesis, transformations, problems of use
• Spatial organisation of non-European cities
• History of urban planning and architecture with elements of economic history
• Spatial development of Polish cities
• Spatial development and urban structure of Łódź
• Geographical Information System
• Historical-geographical regions of Poland - field classes
• Environmental foundations of spatial planning - field classes

Organisation works, institutions

• 2023 - Member of the journal's Advisory Board: Journal of Spatial Research, https://maddergi.cu.edu.tr/cu/Dergimiz/editorial
• Co-organiser of the International Seminar on Urban Form conference Łódź-Kraków 2022
• Co-organiser of KEG (Congress on Geographical Education), Łódź 2022
• Founding Member and Council Member of the Polish Network on Urban Morphology ISUF POLAND from 15.11.2019
• Member of the Urban Morphology Section of the Commission for Urbanism and Architecture of the Cracow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 03.10.2019,
• Organisation of the geographical knowledge competition for students of the WNG UŁ "Avantura o Gegra" 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 (originator, organiser)
• Co-organisation of the exhibition "1919 - 2019: One hundred years of the Łódź Voivodeship in the collections of the UŁ Library"
• Organisation of the 6th Polish Geographical-Historical Conference "Spatial Dimension of Cultural Heritage Research" - Łódź, 14-15 November 2019, Chairman of the Organising Committee
• 2018 - Organisation of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Polish Geographical Society in Łódź
• 2018 - Organisation of the exhibition "Łódź and the Łódź region on archival plans and maps", cooperation with the Library of the University of Łódź, (originator, co-organiser)
• 2018 - Co-organiser: 17th International Conference of Historical Geographers ICHG, 15-20 September
• since 2021 - V-ce Chairman of the Łódź Branch of the Polish Geographical Society
• since 2017 - President of the Lodz Branch of the Polish Geographical Society, Member of the Board of the PTG
• 2014 - Founding member of the Political and Historical Geography Commission of the PTG
• 2013 – 2021 - Secretary of the scientific journal Folia Geografica Socio-Oeconomica
• since 2012 - member of the Polish Geographical Society
• 2011- 2012 - V-ce Chairman of the Doctoral Student Self-Government of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź
• 2011-2012 - Member of the Council of the Doctoral Student Self-Government of the University of Łódź
• 2011 - Member of the Council of the Institute of Urban Geography and Tourism at the University of Łódź
• 2011 - chairman of the commission of the sightseeing competition: "Voivodeship in the Heart of Poland"
• since 2008 - member of the Council of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź