Szczepan Porębski is Full Professor of Geology at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Emeritus since 2024). He received MSc in Geology (1974) from the University of Wroclaw and PhD in Earth Sciences (1979) from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow. Prior joining AGH-UST in 2011, he was with the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where served as the Head of the Krakow Research Centre (1996-2009).

He has held post-doctoral positions at the universities of Bergen, Göttingen, Wyoming, and Texas at Austin. He also worked as a consultant for the oil and gas industries of the North Sea, Libya and Middle East through Stavanger-based Z&S Geologi a/s and Eriksfiord a/s (1989-2010). His current research interests are aimed at using clastic sedimentology to address problems in basin analysis and hydrocarbon reservoir prediction. He has wide experience based on outcrop and well core studies in ancient aeolian, deltaic, estuarine, shelf and deep-marine depositional systems.