Study and scientific career

1994-1996 Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Course: Environment Protection

Academic Degree: Licentiate of Environmental Protection

1996-1998 Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Course: Protection and Management of Natural Environment

1998 MSc thesis „Water quality of Malta Reservoir and Cybina River in vegetation season of 1997” in Department of Water Protection

Academic Degree: MSc of Environmental Protection

1998-2003 Doctoral studies in Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

2005 PhD thesis in hydrobiology „The structure and functioning of humic lakes ecosystems in Drawa National Park”

First scientific title: Doctor of Biological Sciences in the field of Biology – Hydrobiology

2006 – 2016 Assistant Professor at the Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Second scientific title: Assistant Professor with a post-doctoral degree in the field of Ecology

since 2017 Assistant Professor with a post-doctoral degree at the Department of Water Protection, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

 

Scientific interests

Study of freshwater environments /lake, river, small water bodies/ in the field of chemistry /inorganic and organic forms of phosphorus and nitrogen, metallic and non-metallic elements, phaeopigments/ and physical conditions /light climate/ in relation to landscape transformations. Methods and criteria for assessment of water quality and classifying of trophic status.

Research of reaction of hydrobionts to change of abiotics parameters of water/bottom sediments in the context of water bodies restoration with use of different methods of reclamation (mesocosms experiments).

 

 Publications:

63 international peer-reviewed publications, including 28 in Journal Citation Reports (e.g. Hydrobiologia, Ecological Engineering, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Limnetica, International Review of Hydrobiology, Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Environment Protection Engineering, Environmental Earth Sciences), 35 in reviewed journals, 50 chapters and editor of 2 books.

More information: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomasz_Joniak

 

Share in research projects

National project, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research: “Functioning of dystrophic lakes ecosystems in relation to impacts of ecotones and catchment”.

National project, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research: “The functioning of plankton communities in different habitats of small water bodies in the agricultural landscape”.

National project, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research: “Exchange of matter between bottom sediment and lake water with special emphasis on abiotic factors”.

National project, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research: “Impact of colony the black cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis L.) on lakes water trophy. Transfer of elements in the system colony-lake“.

Universities project, Adam Mickiewicz University & University of Technology, Poznań: “Study of bakterioplankton in microscopy and breeding technique respect to seasonal changes of water quality and water flow. Methods validation in the Warta River”.

National project, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research: “Picoplanktonic cyanobacteria in the pelagic zone of lowland reservoir: seasonal changes of morphological diversity and its causes”.

Universities project, Adam Mickiewicz University & University of Technology, Poznań: “Impact of Poznań on water quality of the Warta River”.

National project, Polish State Committee for Scientific Research: “Small water bodies under influence of diverse anthropogenic pressure in the agricultural landscape: Biocenotic structure as an indicator of water quality”.

National project, General Directorate of Environmental Protection of Poland: “Monitoring of species and habitats with special emphasis on special areas of conservation Natura 2000 – stage third and fourth, 2009-2015”.

International project, European Fund for Regional Development under the Baltic Sea Region “Baltic Landscape Network” 2007-2013.

 

Teaching

Physical-chemical bases of environmental assessment, Assessment of water state, Small bodies of water – biodiversity and environmental conditions, Standard methods in environmental protection (English-language studies), Biological and physicochemical elements of assessment the ecological status of water bodies (English-language studies), Urban ecology: biocoenotic and landscape functions of small water bodies (English-language studies), Soils and waters protection, Waste, water and wastewater management, Modeling of aquatic ecosystems.

 

Membership of scientific societies:

Federation of European Phycological Societies (FEPS)

International Society of Limnology (SIL)

European Pond Conservation Network (EPCN)

Polish Limnological Society

Polish Phycological Society

 

Expert:

The National centre for Research and Development, Poland

 

Awards & achievements

Third Team Degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Award in Scientific Achievements, 2018

Second Team Degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Award in Didactic Achievements, 2016.

Honorable mention for directed MA thesis (MSc Mikołaj Jabłecki) in the competition of prof. M. Gieysztor of Polish Hydrobiological Society (edition 2013)

Third Team Degree Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Award in Scientific Achievements, 2010.

Adam Mickiewicz University Rector Award in Professional Achievement, 2006.

 

Journal referee:

The author of over 30 scientific reviews (Water Research, Limnologica – Ecology and Management of Inland Waters, Hydrobiologia, Marine and Freshwater Research, Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, Applied Water Science, Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies, Baltic Coastal Zone, Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, Polish Journal of Natural Science).