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Agata Magdalena Krzesinska

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 2A ZEB-bygget 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1028 Blindern 0316 Oslo

Research field : Planetary Geology, Meteoritics.

Research interests : Shock and shock-related alterations in meteorites; Mars: water and crustal processes; Non-destructive analysis of extraterrestrial matter; Meteorite recovery, classification and curation; Analogues for Mars.

Academic degrees and employment : since 2018 - Researcher, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (now PHAB), UiO; 2015 - 2018 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural History Museum London; 2009 - 2015 - PhD candidate (defended 2014) and Researcher, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Analytical experience : High-resolution X-ray tomography; synchrotron-based nano-tomography; Scanning electron microscopy and EDX; Electron microprobe; synchrotron-based XRF and XANES; XRD.

Meteorite classification : NWA 11220 martian regolith breccia; Oslo H 3-6 chondrite, Valle H5 chondrite, Jordalen L6 chondrite, Antonin L5 chondrite.

Honors and awards : Lunar and Planetary Institute Career Development Award 2013; Wiley-Blackwell Outstanding Student Talk Award 2013; Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London 2018; NASA Honor Award as part of the MSR SRF Measurement Definition Team 2025.

Space mission science involvement : Member of the Rover Science and Operation Working Group for ExoMars ESA rover; Appointed member of ESA-NASA Mars Sample Return Sample Receiving Facility Measurement Definition Team; Appointed member of IMEWG sub-group Mars Science Scope Prior to the Arrival of Humans.

Memberships : Meteoritical Society (Publication Committee member); Polish Meteorite Society (Science Committee member); Norwegian Meteor Network (Steering Board member).

Public outreach : Scientific content and design advisor for the permanent exhibition ‘Meteorites’ at the Natural History Museum in Oslo; Stands with meteorite specimens and talks at festivals: Science Uncovered (multiple in UK and in Poland); New Scientists Live, UK, 2016; Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, UK, 2016; Lyme Regis, UK, 2017; Geologiens Dag, Norway, 2019; Pint of Science, Norway, 2020 and 2022; Ungforst Festival, Norway, 2022. GeoOnsdag, Norway 2024.

Teaching:

GEO-AST3410/4410, Planetary Sciences

GEO-DEEP9506, Mineralogy of Planetary Surfaces and Biosignatures

MSc and PhD projects on offer: 

Analogues for Mars and the Moon among Norwegian geological sites. 

Tags: meteorites, Mars

Publications

Carrier B., E. Sefton-Nash, H. Graham, C.D.K. Herd, J. Bridges, V. Debaille, A. Fox, K.L. French, T. Haltigin, E.M. Hausrath, A. Krzesińska, D. Paardekooper, E. Rampe, S. Schwenzer, M. Viotti, J. Duprat, M. Ferrari, M. Glamoclija, A.D. Harringon, A. Hutzler, Y. Liu, C. Magnabosco, J. Marlow, C. Maurel, H.M. McLaurin, R. Ogliore, A. Pack, S. Pillai, C. Schroeder, A. Sessions, S. Siljeström, A. Steele, B.L. Teece, V. Tu, and K. Wang, 2025: Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Receiving Project (SRP) Measurement Definition Team (MDT) Final Report. Astrobiology 10: 665-670.

Fawdon P., Orgel C., Adeli S., Balme M., Calef F., Davis J.M., Frigeri A., Grindrod P., Hauber E., Le Deit L., Loizeau D., Nass A., Quantin-Nataf C., Sefton-Nash E., Thomas N., Torres I., Vago J.L., Volat M., De Witte S., Altieri F., Apuzzo A., Aramendia J., Arana G., Bahia R., Banham S.G., Barnes R., Barrett A., Benedix W.-S., Bhardwaj A., Boazman S., Bontognali T.R.R., Bridges J., Bultel B., Ciarletti V., De Sanctis M.C., Dickeson Z., Favaro E., Ferrari M., Foucher F., Goetz W., Haldemann A., Harrington E., Kapatza A., Koschny D., Krzesińska A., Le Gall A., Lewis S., Lim T., Madariaga J., Mandon L., Mangold N., McNeil J., Molina A., Moral A.G., Motaghian S., Wright J., Nikiforov S., Oudart N., Pacifici A., Parkes Bowen A., Plettemeier D., Poulakis P., Rizky A., Putri D., Ruesch O., Sam L., Schröder C., Statz C., Thomas R., Tirsch D., Tóth Z., Turner S., Voelker M., Werner S., Westall F., Whiteside B., Williams A., Williams R., Zorzano M.-P., 2024: The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. Journal of Maps 20(1): 2302361.

Baker D.R., Callegaro S., Marzoli A., De Min A., Geraki K., Whitehouse M.J., Krzesińska A.M., Fioretti A.M., 2023. S and Cl in nakhlite clinopyroxenes: Source region concentrations and magmatic evolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 359: 1-19.   

Tyminski Z., Hult M., Krzesińska A.M., Lutter G., Tyminska K, Saganowski P, Marissens G., Stroh H., Burakowska A., Ziemek T., Stachowicz M., El-Mallul A., 2023: Underground Radioactivity Measurements of Meteorites: Development of Development of Methods Suitable to Determine Precise Terrestrial Age of Recent Falls. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 195: 110733.

Krzesińska A., 2023: Petrology and chemistry of the Antonin meteorite – classification and reconstruction of thermal-collisional history (in Polish with English summary). Acta Societatits Metheoriticae Polonorum 14: 113-132.

Tymiński Z., Burakowska A., Krzesińska A.M., Tymińska K., Kuć M., Iller E, 2023: Cosmogenic radionuclides in Antonin meteorite (in Polish with English summary). Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum: 14: 191-198.

Shrbený L, Krzesińska A.M., Borovička J., Spurný P., Tymińnski Z., Kmieciak K., 2022: Analysis of the daylight fireball of July 15, 2021, leading to meteorite fall and find near Antonin, Poland, and description of the recovered chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 57: 2108-2126.

Loizeau D., Pilorget C., Poulet F., Lantz C., Bibring J.-P., Hamm V., Royer C., Dypvik H., Krzesińska A.M., Rull F., Werner S.C., 2022: Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library Project: 3. Characterization of Samples With MicrOmega. Astrobiology 22: 263-292.

Krzesińska A.M., Bultel B., Loizeau D., Craw D., April R., Poulet F., Werner S.C., 2021: NIR characterization of Fe-rich vermiculite-bearing terrestrial deposits and constraints for mineralogy of Oxia Planum, ExoMars 2022 landing site. Astrobiology 21(8):997-1015. 

Dypvik H., Hellevang H., Krzesińska A., Sætre C., Viennet J-C., Bultel B., Ray D., Poulet D., Veneranda M., Rull F., Cousin A. Werner S.C., 2021. The Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library (PTAL) - An Exclusive Lithological Selection of Possible Martian Earth Analogues. Planetary and Space Science 208: 105339. 

Veneranda M., Lopez-Reyes G., Pascual Sanchez E., Krzesińska AM, Lantz C., Manrique-Martinez JA, Sanz-Arranz A., Medina J., Poulet F., Dypvik H., Werner SC, Rull F ., 2021: ExoMars Raman Laser Spectrometer (RLS): a tool to semiquantify the serpentinization degree of olivine-rich rocks on Mars. Astrobiology.

Łuszczek K. and Krzesińska AM ., 2020: Copper in ordinary chondrites: Proxies for resource potential of asteroids and constraints for minimum-invasive and economically efficient exploitation. Planetary and Space Science. DOI: 10.1016 / j.pss.2020.105092

Veneranda M., Manrique JA., Lopez-Reyes G., Medina J., Torre-Fdez I., Castro K., Madariaga JM., Lantz C., Poulet F., Krzesińska AM ., Hellevang H., Werner S ., Rull F, 2019: Spectroscopic study of olivine-bearing rocks and its relevance to the ExoMars rover mission. Spectrochimica Acta A 223: 117360. doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2019.117360

Krzesińska AM , Wirth R., Kusiak MA, 2019: Petrogenesis of ungrouped enstatite meteorite Zakłodzie: fabric, texture and nanostructure analysis for identification of mechanisms responsible for chondrite-achondrite transition. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54: 1462-1477. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.13296.

Wilson AP, Genge MJ, Krzesińska AM ., Tomkins AG, 2019: Atmospheric Entry Heating of Micrometeorites at Earth and Mars: Implications for the Survival of Organics. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54: 1-12. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.13360.

Krzesińska AM . & Almeida NV, 2019: Evidence of shock-induced vaporization of matrix to form porosity in Baszkówka, a porous L5 chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 54: 54–71. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.13190.

Krzesińska AM , 2018: Impact melt clasts in the Pułtusk breccia (in Polish with English summary). Acta Societatis Metheoriticae Polonorum 9: 74-92.

Krzesińska AM ., 2017: Contribution of early impact events to metal-silicate separation, thermal annealing and volatile redistribution: evidence in the Pułtusk H chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52: 2305-2321. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12933.

Gattacceca J., Krzesińska AM ., Marrocchi Y., Meier MMM, Bourot-Denise M., Lenssen R., 2017: Young asteroid mixing revealed in ordinary chondrites: the case of NWA 5764, a polymict LL breccia with L clasts. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 52: 2289-2304. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12942.

Krzesińska AM ., 2016: Thermal Metamorphic Evolution of the Pułtusk H Chondrite Breccia - Compositional and Textural Properties not Included in Petrological Classification. Geological Quarterly, 60: 211–224. DOI: 10.7306 / gq.1267.

Krzesińska A. , Gattacceca J., Friedrich JM & Rochette P., 2015: Impact-related non-coaxial deformation in the Pułtusk H chondrite inferred from petrofabric analysis. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50: 401–417. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12429.

Krzesińska A. & Fritz J., 2014: Weakly shocked and deformed CM microxenoliths in the Pułtusk H chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 49: 595–610. DOI: 10.1111 / maps.12276.

Krzesińska A., 2011: High resolution X-ray tomography as a tool for analysis of internal textures in meteorites. Meteorites 1: 3–12. DOI: 10.5277 / met110101.

  • Carrier, Brandi L.; Sefton-Nash, Elliot; Graham, Heather V.; Herd, Christopher D.K.; Bridges, John C. & Debaille, Vinciane [Show all 35 contributors for this article] (2025). Mars Sample Return Sample Receiving Project Measurement Definition Team Final Report. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 25(10), p. 665–670. doi: 10.1177/15311074251382248. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fawdon, Peter; Orgel, Csilla; Adeli, Solmaz; Balme, Matt; Calef, Fred J. & Davis, Joel M. [Show all 80 contributors for this article] (2024). The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. Journal of Maps. 20(1). doi: 10.1080/17445647.2024.2302361. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Tymiñski, Zbigniew & Maækowska, Roksana (2023). The Antonin Chondrite - the first Polish meteorite with reconstructed pre-atmospheric orbit. Report on registration and classification, including proposals for measures to expand the Polish meteorite collection. Przeglad Geologiczny. ISSN 0033-2151. 71(7), p. 372–385. doi: 10.7306/2023.33. Full text in Research Archive
  • Baker, Don R.; Callegaro, Sara; Marzoli, Andrea; Min, Angelo De; Geraki, Kalotina & Whitehouse, Martin, J. [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). Sulfur and chlorine in nakhlite clinopyroxenes: Source region concentrations and magmatic evolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. ISSN 0016-7037. 359, p. 1–19. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.08.007. Full text in Research Archive
  • Tymiński, Zbigniew; Hult, Mikael; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Tymińska, Katarzyna; Lutter, Guillaume & Saganowski, Paweł [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2023). Underground radioactivity measurements of meteorites: Development of methods suitable to determine precise terrestrial age of recent falls. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. ISSN 0969-8043. 195. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.110733. Full text in Research Archive
  • Loizeau, Damien; Pilorget, Cédric; Poulet, François; Lantz, Cateline; Bibring, Jean-Pierre & Hamm, Vincent [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2022). Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library Project: 3. Characterization of Samples with MicrOmega. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 22(3), p. 263–292. doi: 10.1089/ast.2020.2420. Full text in Research Archive
  • Shrbený, Lukáš; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Borovička, Jiří; Spurný, Pavel; Tymiński, Zbigniew & Kmieciak, Kryspin (2022). Analysis of the daylight fireball of July 15, 2021, leading to a meteorite fall and find near Antonin, Poland, and a description of the recovered chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. 57(12), p. 2108–2126. doi: 10.1111/maps.13929. Full text in Research Archive
  • Veneranda, Marco; Lopez-Reyes, Guillermo; Sanchez, Elena Pascual; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Manrique-Martinez, Jose Antonio & Sanz-Arranz, Aurelio [Show all 15 contributors for this article] (2021). ExoMars Raman Laser Spectrometer: A Tool to Semiquantify the Serpentinization Degree of Olivine-Rich Rocks on Mars. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 21(3), p. 307–322. doi: 10.1089/ast.2020.2265. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dypvik, Henning; Hellevang, Helge; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Sætre, Christian; Viennet, Jean-Christophe & Bultel, Benjamin Gabriel Rene [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2021). The Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library (PTAL) – An exclusive lithological selection of possible martian earth analogues. Planetary and Space Science. ISSN 0032-0633. 208. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2021.105339. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Bultel, Benjamin Gabriel Rene; Loizeau, Damien; Craw, David; April, Richard & Poulet, Francois [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2021). Mineralogical and spectral (NIR) characterization of Fe-rich vermiculite-bearing terrestrial deposits and constraints for mineralogy of Oxia Planum, ExoMars 2022 landing site. Astrobiology. ISSN 1531-1074. 21(8), p. 997–1016. doi: 10.1089/ast.2020.2410. Full text in Research Archive
  • Luszczek, Katarzyna & Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2020). Copper in ordinary chondrites: Proxies for resource potential of asteroids and constraints for minimum-invasive and economically efficient exploitation. Planetary and Space Science. ISSN 0032-0633. 194. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.105092. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Wirth, Richard & Kusiak, Monika A (2019). Petrogenesis of ungrouped enstatite meteorite Zaklodzie: Fabric, texture, and nanostructure analysis for identification of mechanisms responsible for chondrite?achondrite transition. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. 54(7), p. 1462–1477. doi: 10.1111/maps.13296. Full text in Research Archive
  • Wilson, Aaron; Genge, Matthew J; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena & Tomkins, Andrew (2019). Atmospheric entry heating of micrometeorites at Earth and Mars: Implications for the survival of organics. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. 54(9), p. 1–19. doi: 10.1111/maps.13360. Full text in Research Archive
  • Veneranda, Marco; Manrique-Martinez, Jose Antonio; Lopez-Reyes, Guillermo; Medina, Jesus E.; Torre-Fdez, Imanol & Castro, Kepa [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2019). Spectroscopic study of olivine-bearing rocks and its relevance to the ExoMars rover mission. Spectrochimica Acta Part A - Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. ISSN 1386-1425. 223. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117360. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Wirth, Richard & Schreiber, Anja (2026). Deciphering Metasomatic Alteration Conditions in H3.8 Chondrite Oslo from Silica-Ferroan Olivine Assemblages. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. Full text in Research Archive
  • Schroeder, Christian; Grindrod, Peter; Siljestrom, Sandra; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Paar, Gerhard & Rudin, Mia [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2025). Looking for Meteorites at Oxia Planum on Mars. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bultel, Benjamin Gabriel Rene; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena; Loizeau, Damien; Veneranda, Marco & Werner, Stephanie C. (2025). Deciphering the alteration processes by micro-scale characterization of vermiculite-rich sample from Granby Tuff, an analogue to Noachian clay deposits at Oxia Planum. doi: 10.5194/epsc-dps2025-1550. Full text in Research Archive
  • Thorpe, M. T.; Velbel, M. A.; Hauber, E.; Tait, K. T.; Thiessen, F. & Sefton-Nash, E. [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2025). The Mars Sample Return Analogue Sample Library. doi: https:/www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2109.pdf. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Prøver (som skal) returneres fra Mars og viktigheten av ‘esrtatningssteiner'. geoforskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Krzesinska A.: Fluid-Assisted Alteration Record in Oslo H3.8-6 Chondrite. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Thiessen F., Krzesinska A., Orgel C., Sefton-Nash E., Hutzler A., Werner S., Griffiths L., Muller A.B., Kminek G., 2024: Mars Sample Return Analogue Sample Library. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Bringing rocks from Mars to Earth; why, how and are we ready for it? Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Meteorites – the only rocky archive to decipher earliest evolution of the Earth. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Bridges J. C., Debaille V., Harrington A. D., Herd C.D.K., Hutzler A., Krzesinska A. M., Liu Y., Maurel C., Wang K., 2024: Report of the Sample Receiving Project Measurement Definition Team: Igneous Samples Working Group. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Krzesińska A.M., Tymiński Z., Allen N.M., Busemann H., Maden C., Stachowicz M., Kusiak M.A., Lee S., Yi K, 2024: Collisional history of L chondrite Antonin inferred from K-Ar, U,Th-He and phosphate U-Pb dating. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Krzesińska A.M., Tymiński Z., Allen N.M., Busemann H., Maden C., Stachowicz M., Kusiak M.A., Lee S., Yi K.: Collisional history of L chondrite Antonin inferred from K-Ar, U,Th-He and phosphate U-Pb dating. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Fluid-Assisted Alteration Record in Oslo H3.8-6 Chondrite. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Debaille V., Herd C. D. K., Duprat J., Krzesinska A. M., Maurel C., McLaurin H. M., Liu Y., Tu V. M., Wang K., 2024: Report of the Sample Receiving Project Measurement Definition Team: Chronology, Cratering, and Dynamics Working Group. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Thiessen F., Krzesinska A., Orgel C., Sefton-Nash E., Hutzler A., Werner S., Griffiths L., Muller A.B., Kminek G., 2024: Mars Sample Return Analogue Sample Library. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. ISSN 1086-9379. Full text in Research Archive
  • Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena (2024). Carrier B. L., Graham H. V., Herd C. D. K., Sefton-Nash E., Haltigin T., Paardekooper D. M., Viotti M. A., Krzesinska A. M., French K.L., Fox A. C., and the MDT-1 Team, 2024: Report of the Sample Receiving Project Measurement Definition Team: Deriving a Proposed Instrument Suite for the Sample Receiving Facility. Full text in Research Archive
  • Harrington, Elise Michelle; Bultel, Benjamin; Krzesinska, Agata Magdalena & Werner, Stephanie C. (2020). Paleolakes and evaporite deposits across Mars. Full text in Research Archive

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