Staff profile

• 2020 - present: Assistant Professor (Education track) in DCAD, Durham University
• 2019-2020: Teaching Fellow, DCAD, Durham University
• 2018-2019: Teaching Fellow in Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Durham University
• 2017-2018: Teacher of Science, North Durham Academy, Stanley
• 2016-2017: Teacher of Chemistry, Dyke House Sports & Technology College, Hartlepool
• 2012-2016: PhD in Geology (Paleoclimatology), Durham University
• 2004-2009: MSc in Physical Geography (Climatology), Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

• Application of Computed Tomography scanning in stalagmite-based research, Cave microclimate, Climate extremes, Natural variability and anthropogenic climate change, Holocene North Atlantic climate reconstructions using geochemistry of stalagmites from Spain and Bermuda

• 2024: Connecting Research Communities #6 conference: keynote lecture at Palacky University, Czech Republic
• 2023: Connecting Research Communities (CRC): International, interdisciplinary student conference organised in collaboration between Durham University and Palacky University, Czech Republic
• 2022: External Examiner at Teesside University for BSc Geology:
• 2017: Invited Speaker at Summer School on Speleothem Science (S4), Burgos, Spain:

Conference Paper

• Reconstructing North Atlantic Climate over the Past Six Centuries Using a High Resolution Stalagmite Multi-Proxy Approach
  
  Baldini, L. M., Walczak, I. W., Jamieson, R., Lechleitner, F., & Baldini, J. U. (2018). Reconstructing North Atlantic Climate over the Past Six Centuries Using a High Resolution Stalagmite Multi-Proxy Approach. Presented at Goldschmidt 2018, Boston, USA.
• The Onset of the Mediterranean Climate in Western Europe Inferred from Dating and CT Scanning of Un-Sectioned Stalagmite
  
  Walczak, I., Baldini, J., Baldini, L., Marsden, S., Richards, D., Standish, C., McDermott, F., & Andreo, B. (2014). The Onset of the Mediterranean Climate in Western Europe Inferred from Dating and CT Scanning of Un-Sectioned Stalagmite. Presented at Goldschmidt 2014, Sacramento, USA.
• Reconstructing climate using the geochemistry and computed tomography of stalagmites
  
  Walczak, I., Baldini, J., Macpherson, C., Marsden, S., Richards, D., Jamieson, R., Slater, J., Baldini, L., & Hugill, C. (2013). Reconstructing climate using the geochemistry and computed tomography of stalagmites. Presented at EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.

Journal Article

• The Gulf Stream moved northward at the end of the Little Ice Age
  
  Forman, E. C. G., Baldini, J. U. L., Jamieson, R. A., Lechleitner, F. A., Walczak, I. W., Nita, D. C., Smith, S. R., Richards, D. A., Baldini, L. M., McIntyre, C., Müller, W., & Peters, A. J. (2025). The Gulf Stream moved northward at the end of the Little Ice Age. Communications Earth & Environment, 6, Article 552. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02446-3
• Widening participation students’ experience and perception of flipped learning statistics compared with traditional teaching in higher education
  
  Mathias, J., Walczak, I., & Leech, S. (2023). Widening participation students’ experience and perception of flipped learning statistics compared with traditional teaching in higher education. MSOR Connections, 21(2), 4-14. https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v21i2.1390
• Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches
  
  Baldini, J. U., Lechleitner, F. A., Breitenbach, S. F., van Hunen, J., Baldini, L. M., Wynn, P. M., Jamieson, R. A., Ridley, H. E., Baker, A. J., Walczak, I. W., & Fohlmeister, J. (2021). Detecting and quantifying palaeoseasonality in stalagmites using geochemical and modelling approaches. Quaternary Science Reviews, 254, Article 106784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106784
• High resolution monitoring of Yok Balum Cave, Belize: an investigation of seasonal ventilation regimes and the atmospheric and drip-flow response to a local earthquake
  
  Ridley, H., Baldini, J., Prufer, K., Walczak, I., & Breitenbach, S. (2015). High resolution monitoring of Yok Balum Cave, Belize: an investigation of seasonal ventilation regimes and the atmospheric and drip-flow response to a local earthquake. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 77(3), 183-199. https://doi.org/10.4311/2014es0117
• Reconstructing high-resolution climate using CT scanning of unsectioned stalagmites: A case study identifying the mid-Holocene onset of the Mediterranean climate in southern Iberia.
  
  Walczak, I., Baldini, J., Baldini, L., McDermott, F., Marsden, S., Standish, C., Richards, D., Andreo, B., & Slater, J. (2015). Reconstructing high-resolution climate using CT scanning of unsectioned stalagmites: A case study identifying the mid-Holocene onset of the Mediterranean climate in southern Iberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 127, 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.013

Presentation

• The onset of Mediterranean climate constrained using computed tomography-derived density variations in an Iberian stalagmite
  
  Walczak, I. (2014, September 29 – 2014, October 3). The onset of Mediterranean climate constrained using computed tomography-derived density variations in an Iberian stalagmite. Presented at Climate Change: The Karst Record 7th International Conference, Melbourne, Australia.