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Division of Environmental Toxicology

Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine

EMPLOYEES

Head:

Prof. Dr. Habil. Lidia Wolska

Prof. Dr. Habil. Lidia Wolska

E-mail:lidia.wolska@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 39


Background

  • 2010 – present: Professor/Head of Department of Environmental Toxicology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 2018 – 2010: Assistent Professor/Head of Department of Environmental Toxicology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 1998 – 2015: Assistent Professor at Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 1997 – 1998: Assistant, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 1995 – 1997: Assistent Professor/Head of Laboratory of Organic Micropollutants, Department of Sea Water Protection, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 1996: PhD in Chemistry at Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

Research activities / Special interests

Environmental and health risk assessment. Human exposure and environmental epidemiology. Health effects of environmental agents. Investigation of trace analytes in environmental samples. Gas chromatography analysis and identification of chemical agents in air samples.


Professors:

Prof. Dr. Habil. Maciej Nyka

Prof. Dr. Habil. Maciej Nyka

E-mail:maciej.nyka@gumed.edu.pl

Research activities / Special interests

Environmental law and regulation. Human rights and the environment. Legal approaches to the problem of environmental pollution. Administrative tools for environmental protection.


Assistant Professors:

Monika Cieszyńska-Semenowicz, Ph.D.

Monika Cieszyńska-Semenowicz, Ph.D.

E-mail:monika.cieszynska-semenowicz@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 35


Background

  • 03/2011 – present: assistant professor in Department of Environmental Toxicology at Medical University of Gdańsk
  • 06/2009: PhD in pharmacy at Medical University of Gdańsk, Thesis title: “Chemometric analysis in assessing the quality of selected watercourses in the municipality of Gdańsk”
  • 06/2005 – 03/2011: assistant in Department of Environmental Protection and Hygiene of Transport at Medical University of Gdańsk
  • 2004: University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Social Studies, post – graduate studies on teaching
  • 1998 – 2003: MSc in in the field of Oceanology, specialization of Physical Oceanography: Chemical Oceanography, University of Gdansk, Faculty of Biology, Geography and Oceanology, Thesis title: “Forms of phosphorus in the suspended matter of the Gdansk Bay”

Research activities / Special interests

Research interests focus on the broad issues related to environmental protection and toxicology, ecotoxicology, ecology, estimating the impact of pollution on the environment and human health, and chemometrics.


Agnieszka Fiszka Borzyszkowska, Eng.D.

E-mail:agnieszka.fiszka_borzyszkowska@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 35

Ewa Olkowska, Eng.D.

Ewa Olkowska, Eng.D.

E-mail:ewa.olkowska@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 35


Background

  • 2015 – present: Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Toxicology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2019: 8th Summer Academy on Risk Assessment and Risk Communication in Food Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany
  • 2012: Internship at Catalan Institute for Water Research ICRA, Spain; Participation in European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA), France
  • 2009 – 2014: PhD in Chemistry at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, dissertation: “Analytics of surfactants in environmental samples”
  • 2005 – 2009: MSc Eng in Chemical Technology, at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, thesis title: „Development of the basis of the methodology for the determination of polychlorinated biphenyls and chloroorganic pesticides with the use of microwave assisted solvent extraction”

Research activities / Special interests

Environmental and health risk assessment. Human exposure and environmental epidemiology. Health effects of environmental agents. Investigation of trace analytes in environmental samples. Gas chromatography analysis and identification of chemical agents in air samples.


Andrzej Reindl, Ph.D.

Andrzej Reindl, Ph.D.

E-mail:andrzej.reindl@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 39

Bartosz Rybak, Ph.D.

Bartosz Rybak, Ph.D.

E-mail:bartosz.rybak@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 35


Background

  • 2020 – present: Research assistant, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk
  • 2018 – 2020: Assistant, Department of Immunobiology and Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk
  • 2019 – present: Specialist in Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Infections Team University Clinical Centre, Medical University of Gdansk
  • 2015 – present: Specialist in Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Infections Team, Pomeranian Centre for Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis in Gdansk
  • 2015 – present: Specialist in Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Infections Team, Specialist Psychiatric Hospital in Gdansk
  • 2014 – 2018: Senior Specialist in Clinical Microbiology, Collection of Plasmids and Microorganisms, University of Gdansk
  • 2011 – 2014: Lead Assistant Medical Laboratory at BRUSS ALAB group
  • 2001 – 2011: Junior Assistant at Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, University Clinical Center, Medical University of Gdansk

Research activities / Special interests

Bacterial water pollution, antibiotics resistance, environment pollution with human bacterial pathogens, molecular biology, epidemiology of multi-antibiotic-resistant bacteria, atypical Mycobacterium


Dr. Habil. Eng. Maciej Tankiewicz

Dr. Habil. Eng. Maciej Tankiewicz

E-mail:maciej.tankiewicz@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 34


Background

  • 03/2016 – present: Assistant Professor at Department of Environmental Toxicology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2019: 8th Summer Academy on Risk Assessment and Risk Communication in Food Safety,Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany; Winter School for Chemical Risk Assessment, National Veterinary Research Institute (PIWet) and Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Puławy, Poland
  • 07/2014 – 03/2016: Junior Specialist at Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2015: Practical course on application of SPME technique to drug analysis, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
  • 09/2011 – 12/2011: Internship at Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, School of Science, University of the West of Scotland, Great Britain
  • 2009 – 2013: PhD in Analytical Chemistry at Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland, thesis title: “New multi-residue methods for the determination of currently used pesticides from various chemical groups in environmental samples”
  • 2003 – 2008: MSc Eng in Chemical Technology at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, thesis title (completed at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, within the Erasmus-Socrates program): “Bismuth film electrode as an alternative to mercury electrodes for determination of heavy metals by stripping voltammetry”

Research activities / Special interests

  • Method development on GC-MS, GC-MS/MS; LC-MS/MS (including sample preparation step)
  • Xenobiotic residues analysis, pesticides multiresidue analysis;
  • Development and optimization of solventless and solvent-minimized sample preparation techniques
  • Sample preparation techniques, such as: SPE, SPME, DLLME, LPME, SDME (particularly in water analysis) and QuEChERS technique in food analysis
  • Health risk assessment
  • Pollution health impact
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Senior Specialists:

Małgorzata Kaczorowska, M.A.

Małgorzata Kaczorowska, M.A.

E-mail:malgorzata.kaczorowska@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 35


Junior Specialists:

Goran Gržinić, Ph.D.

Goran Gržinić, Ph.D.

E-mail:goran.grzinic@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 35


Background

  • 2019 – present: Postdoc at Department of Environmental Toxicology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2015 – 2016: Scientific Associate at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  • 2011 – 2014: PhD in Chemistry at University of Bern, Switzerland, dissertation: “The Multiphase Chemical Kinetics of Dinitrogen Pentoxide with Aerosol Particles”
  • 2010 – 2014: Graduate Researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
  • 2008: MSc in Chemistry, at Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
  • 2006 – 2007: Eurodesigners Training Course, Unione Italiana di Capodistria, Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia, project “IQ-EURO – Start-up of the European Service and Training of Future Eurodesigners of Istria and Kvarner Regions” co-financed by EU INTERREG IIIA

Research activities / Special interests

Atmospheric pollution and health impact. Aerosol measurement techniques indoor/outdoor. Environmental and health impact of intensive poultry farming.


Oliwia Żabińska, M.A.

E-mail:oliwia.zabinska@gumed.edu.pl
Direct number:58 349 19 36
Site update: 20.03.2024
Goran Gržinić, Maciej Tankiewicz, Lidia Wolska