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:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2881-8616

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Environmental Protection Biotechnology

Faculty:
Faculty of Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 89 523 41 17

E-mail:
katarzyna.bulkowska@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
(not provided)

Scientific Discipline:
Environmental Engineering, Mining, and Energy
(In the case of a doctoral dissertation carried out in two scientific disciplines, it is allowed to indicate one that is not represented in the doctoral school.)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 43

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 817

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 16

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): (not available)

  • H-index (Google Scholar): (not available)

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 0

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes (1)
Foreign candidates: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

Degradation of organic micropollutants during anaerobic digestion

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Yes

ORCID Number:
0000-0002-2907-4199

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

Faculty:
Faculty of Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 89 524 55 51

E-mail:
monika.harnisz@uwm.edu.pl; monikah@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:

Scientific Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 91 / 93

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 3073 / 3505

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 30 / 31

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 4562

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 32

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 4

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: Yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

Wastewater treatment plants as hotspots of multidrug-resistant microorganisms in the environment

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
(no data provided)

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Yes

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

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

Faculty:
Faculty of Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 89 523 41 62

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

ResearchGate Profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Slawomir-Ciesielski?ev=hdr_xprf

Scientific Discipline:
Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy; Biological Sciences
(If the PhD project is to be carried out in two scientific disciplines, one discipline not represented in the Doctoral School may be indicated.)

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 91 / 96

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 1674 / 1850

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 25 / 27

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 2757

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 31

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 4

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 3

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: Yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Microbial synthesis of bioplastics from waste substrates

  • Metagenomics of various environments

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Yes

ORCID Number:
0000-0003-1132-1013

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

Faculty:
Faculty of Geoengineering

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Phone:
+48 725 99 30 10

E-mail:
marcin.zielinski@uwm.edu.pl

ResearchGate Profile:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcin-Zielinski-6

Scientific Discipline:
Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy

Scientific Output Indicators:

  • Number of scientific publications (WoS/Scopus): 192

  • Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) excluding self-citations: 2148

  • H-index (WoS/Scopus): 28

  • Number of citations (Google Scholar): 4088

  • H-index (Google Scholar): 35

  • Number of PhD graduates supervised: 2

  • Number of current PhD candidates under supervision: 1

Willingness to Supervise PhD Students:

Polish candidates: Yes
Foreign candidates: Yes

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates:

  • Research on improving the efficiency of the methane fermentation process when using substrates with high nitrogen content

Funding or Special Equipment Required for the Implementation of the PhD Project:

Are there funds to cover research costs?
Yes

Is infrastructure and appropriate resources available in the Laboratory/Department/Institute to carry out the planned research tasks?
Yes

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