Marek Wendorff is Full Professor with a PhD and DSc in Sedimentary Geology from the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. He worked at the Jagiellonian, and Universities of Zambia and Botswana. Marek is currently associated with the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków.

His research focuses on applied clastic sedimentology, facies analysis, and interplays between tectonics and sedimentation. Major projects include the Carpathian flysch, continental and marine Carboniferous-to-Jurassic suites of Svalbard/Norwegian Arctic and Proterozoic and Phanerozoic successions of Central and SW Africa.

He is an author of the new tectonostratigraphy of the Central African Copperbelt, the World’s richest metallogenic province, and co-discoverer of the platinum-group element mineralisation in the Kalahari Copperbelt. Initiated and was Leader of two International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme Projects (by UNESCO-IUGS, no. 302 and 419), and collaborated with several leading Mining Houses and Exploration Companies.

His experience of sedimentological borehole logging and related facies analysis ranges from the Neoproterozoic rift and foreland successions of the Lufilian Belt (Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo), shallow marine Mesoproterozoic of the Kalahari Copperbelt, the glacial-lacustrine-aeolian Mesozoic Karoo sequence, to the Miocene-age infill of a meteorite impact crater in the Kalahari Desert.