Cezary Kabała, professor
He was graduated at the Wrocław University of Agriculture, getting specialisation in degradation, management and protection of soil environment in agricultural and forest ecosystems. He carried out research projects focus on the impacts of mining and smelting on the quality of soils and plants, on the “ecological disaster” in the Izerskie Mts, Karkonosze Mts and in Eastern Sudeten, on the spatial differentiation and pedogenic processes in the mountain and lowland ecosystems, rates of soil-forming processes and carbon sequestration in the polar and mountain ecosystems, seasonal variability of soil solution quality under mineral fertilisation and under chemical contamination.
Recently, he concerned on multi-disciplinary paleoenvironmental reconstructions, which have importance for current functions and managements of soils and ecosystems.
He is a member of research councils of two national parks (Karkonosze Mts NP and Stołowe Mts NP), and Vice-President of the Soil Science Society of Poland, where he serves as a head of the Commission for Soil Genesis, Classification and Cartography.
Wojciech Pusz, professor
Anna Karczewska, professor
Aleksandra Halarewicz, University professor
She graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture of Agricultural Academy in Wroclaw. In 2000 she defended her doctoral dissertation and in 2013 she obtained a post-doctoral degree in agricultural sciences. Since 2000, she has been employed at the Department of Botany and Plant Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences.
In the first years of scientific activity, she dealt with the aphid ecology and the search for pro-ecological methods to reduce the number of these insects in agricultural crops. Current scientific interests relate to invasive plant species and mechanisms of transformation in flora and vegetation of disturbed forest ecosystems and agrophytocenoses.
Non-scientific interests: traveling, ethnic music, cooking, non-fiction
Magdalena Szymura, University professor
Biologist, PhD dissertation entitled ‘Morphological differentiation of epidermis of selected species from Asterace family’ she defended in 2004, habilitation she obtained in 2016 on the basis of publication cycle entitled ‘Invasion of goldenrods (Solidago L. and Euthamia Nutt.) in south-western Poland’.
She has been working at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences in since 2004. Her research is focused mainly on invasive species, their impact on environment, methods of elimination and habitat restaration, particularly grasslands habitats. She also studies methods of meadows and pastures biodiversity maintaining.
She is a member of International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS), Polish Botanical Society, Polish Association of Landscape Ecology, Polish Grasslands Society.
Non-scientific interests: Baroque music and impressionist painting, as well as mountain tours.
Agnieszka Medyńska-Jaruszek, University professor
Katarzyna Szopka, University professor
Rafał Tyszka, University professor
Jacek Urbaniak, University professor
Jarosław Waroszewski, University professor
Soil scientist working in Institute of Soil Science and Environmental Protection (WUELS). He defends his PhD titled ‘Influence of cover beds series on morphology and properties of soils in the Sudetes Mountains’. in 2011, while PostDoc stay spend in University in Zurich (2013/2014) working on project ‘Clay minerals formation and weathering rates in soils developed from cover beds in the Karkonosze Mountains (Poland and Czech Republic)’.
He is focusing on interactions between landscape changes and soil dynamics with strong emphasis to soil erosion, slope deposits and related to that soil evolution under different climates (temperate, tropical and arctic). Recently has been working on phenomenon of aeolian silt contribution to soils and Pleistocene periglacial slope sediments as well soil denudation in loess and volcanic environments.
An active participant of Polish Soil Society and WRB Working Group. Research stays in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Norway (Svalbard) and Cameroon. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education as part of a scholarship for outstanding young scientists.
Non-scientific interests: alpinism, mountain biking, music, travelling, literature
Piotr Komarnicki, assistant professor with the degree of doctor habilitated
He has a degree in agricultural engineering. In 2008, he obtained a doctoral degree in agricultural sciences for a dissertation devoted to the issues of the impact of air flow on efficiency of the sieve separation process. In 2018, he was awarded a postdoctoral degree for a series of works on the assessment of mechanical damage to biological material based on surface pressure measurements. Since 2009, he has been working as an assistant professor at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology of the University of Life Sciences in Wrocław
The main scope of research interests includes: contact issues of agricultural products, research on the evaluation of fruit resistance to mechanical damage under the influence of variable loads and modeling biological materials using FEM methods.
Member of the Polish Society of Agricultural Engineering and the Polish Society of Agrophysics.
Non-scientific interests: guitar, violin making, music, running, motorization
Irmina Ćwieląg-Piasecka, assistant professor
Dr Irmina Ćwieląg-Piasecka; chemist working at the Institute of Soil Science and Environmental Protection UPWr (since 2011). She received a doctoral degree in chemical sciences in 2011 at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Wrocław University for her dissertation on the antioxidant properties of the glycerol fraction from biodiesel production.
Scientific interests include environmental chemistry, structural studies of soil organic matter using spectroscopic techniques, the role of humic substances and biochar in binding organic xenobiotics in soil, the impact of the addition of exogenous organic matter to soil on pesticide binding and metal translocation.
She gained scientific experience as a head of the National Science Center grant (devoted to the impact of soil properties on the binding of pesticides by organic matter), a contractor in projects in basic sciences as well as development works, participant in foreign internships (Italy, Slovakia) and trainings.
Secretary of the Polish Society of Humic Substances (from 2015), thus a member of the International Humic Substances Society; member of the Polish Soil Science Society and the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB).
Non-scientific interests: literature, music, sport
