Jakub Holuš – Visiting Professor Lecture under the IDUB Program
On behalf of dr Michał Łopuch from the Department of Physical Geography at the University of Wrocław, we would like to invite you to a guest lecture by dr Jakub Holuš from Masaryk University in Brno. Dr Holuš is visiting the University of Wrocław as part of the visiting professor programme implemented under the „Excellence Initiative – Research University” (IDUB) project.
The event will take place on 27 March (Friday) at 11:30 AM in the main building of the University of Wrocław, room 336 (3rd floor).
Following the lecture, an information session will be held regarding potential collaboration opportunities with the Czech Antarctic Research Program.
Dr Jakub Holuš is a researcher at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Czechia. He prefers to work in present (Antarctica, Iceland) and past (Central Europe) cold regions, focusing primarily on cold-climate aeolian dunes and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. He is also familiar wth loess, glacier mass balance and dynamics, and proglacial geomorphology. He collaborated with scientific teams from Central Europe, Israel, and the USA, has completed several international internships, and has authored nine articles in journals indexed in the Web of Science.
The presentation will focus on Late Pleistocene environmental changes in the Vienna Basin – area of key importance for reconstructing aeolian processes under cold-climate conditions. Research indicates that this region served as a junction for two distinct atmospheric circulation systems. While westerly winds predominated across most of the Vienna Basin, certain dunes were formed by katabatic winds blowing from the north, associated with the presence of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) dating from the largest dune fields points to episodic aeolian activity between 26± 2 ka and 13 ± 2 ka. The highest intensity of these processes occurred during the Oldest Dryas (16.5-14.7 ka), aligning with established patterns observed through the Carpathian Basin.
Publication date: 12 March, 2026
Edited by: EJK
Translated by Hanna Jordanek (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
