Environmental Engineering, Mining
and Energy

Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy

Duration of the programme: 4 years (8 semesters) 

Program description

The program in this discipline covers general and specific education issues during lectures, classes and seminars. The most important topics that are covered include individual elements of the environment; innovative and highly effective methods for treating water and wastewater, and for protecting air, soil and groundwater; as well as contemporary problems in waste management and renewable energy sources. The program prepares PhD students for research work by providing training in research methodology, principles of financing research, language skills, technology transfer and commercialization of research results.

Educational outcomes

The program provides PhD students with knowledge about developing trends and new achievements in the discipline and focuses on current and future problems related to the rational use of the environment. PhD students gain experience in using and transforming environmental resources, forecasting the state of the environment on the basis of information stored in databases, and identifying, preventing and eliminating threats to the environment. The program enables PhD students to develop their own ideas and concepts as well as a critical approach to information within the discipline. Graduates of this program have gained a large stock of useful knowledge for application in practical work. They are qualified to work in units related to the environment, broadly understood, to start their own businesses or to pursue scientific careers in national and foreign academic centers and research institutes.

 Key words:

  • renewable and non-renewable resources
  • environmental databases
  • environmental monitoring
  • sustainable development
  • water treatment and reclamation
  • membrane techniques
  • granular sludge technologies
  • wetlands systems
  • “emerging contaminants”
  • Microplastics
  • remediation methods
  • gas and dust pollution
  • renewable energy sources
  • green fuels
  • waste
  • circular economy
  • recycling

Candidates for PhD Supervisors

ORCID number:
0000-0001-7319-4174

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of Water Protection Engineering and Environmental Microbiology

Faculty:
Faculty of Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
604482548

E-mail:
jgroch@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:

ResearchGate account:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Jolanta-Grochowska

Academic discipline:
Environmental engineering, mining and energy

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database: 49/109
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations: 208/359
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 10/12
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 668
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 15
  6. Number of promoted doctors: 1
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: 0

I will take on the supervision of:

  • a Polish doctoral student: Yes (how many) 1 / No
  • a foreign doctoral student: Yes (how many) 1 / No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  • Limnology
  • Lake protection and restoration
  • Hydrology
  • Hydrochemistry
  • Circulation of matter in river-lake systems

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    Yes
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    Yes

ORCID number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5201-2925

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of Environmental Biotechnology
Institute of Engineering and Environmental Protection

Faculty:
Faculty of Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
+48 89 5233876

E-mail:
maciej.wozny@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:

ResearchGate account:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maciej-Wozny-2

Academic discipline:
Environmental engineering, mining and energy

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database: 38/37
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations: 326/396
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 13/14
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 748
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 17
  6. Number of promoted doctors: 0
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: 1

I will take on the supervision of:

  • a Polish doctoral student: Yes (1) / No
  • a foreign doctoral student: Yes (how many) / No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Mycotoxin production during composting of selectively collected kitchen and garden waste (biowaste).

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    Yes
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    Yes

ORCID number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9084-9782

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of Environmental Biotechnology / Institute of Engineering and Environmental Protection

Faculty:
Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
+48 89 5234162

E-mail:
slawomir.ciesielski@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:

ResearchGate account:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Slawomir-Ciesielski

Academic discipline:
Environmental engineering, mining and energy; Biological sciences

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database: 80/84
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations: 1325/1591
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 23/25
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 2204
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 29
  6. Number of promoted doctors: 4
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: 2

I will take on the supervision of:

  • a Polish doctoral student: X
  • a foreign doctoral student: X

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Microbial synthesis of biosurfactants
  2. Metagenomics of various environments

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research?
    Yes
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks?
    YES

Scientific Disciplines