I have a background in hydrology, and my work revolves around issues related to water resources and the dynamics of extremes such as droughts and floods. A significant part of my work involves analyzing spatial data, whether it's environmental features, the spatial distribution of work results, or data such as satellite imagery. I have been involved in teaching GIS since 2015, when, during my doctoral studies, I took on the responsibility of teaching Statistics and GIS in hydrological studies. A year later, I expanded the subject to cover the full range of GIS. This course served as the foundation for further work on materials in this field, leading to the publication of the first online course 'Introduction to GIS in QGIS3', in late 2018 and early 2019. Originally published on the Udemy platform, the course quickly gained the status of the highest-rated and bestseller.
In 2019, a modified version of the course was released in English, followed by two additional levels in the subsequent years. Since then, I have trained over 20,000 individuals, both in traditional classroom settings and online. Throughout my teaching career at a Polish university, I consistently ranked among the top ten instructors, and my online courses garnered over 2000 reviews with an average rating of 4.7 out of 5. At the end of 2021, I moved to the United States, where I currently work as Assistant Research Professor. In my daily work, I process large amounts of data using QGIS and ArcGIS programs, as well as scripts I write in Python. Large databases also require substantial computational power, but fortunately, in addition to workstations, I have access to a supercomputer (currently equipped with 70,560 cores and 350 TB of RAM, with its computational power set to double soon) for conducting necessary scientific calculations.