Team
Mateusz Grygoruk – geographer, wetland hydrologist. Principal investigator in the FORCE project. Associate professor in the Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Water Management at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. He was involved in research and implementation projects on natural and drained wetlands in Poland, Lithuania, Norway and Russia.
Krzysztof Kochanek – an Associate Professor in the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. The main field of my interest is the extreme hydrological events, statistical and stochastic analysis of floods, risk evaluation and management. Apart from that, I deal with water and pollution transport modelling in groundwater and surface waters. In the FORCE project I am responsible for Work Package 4, where statistical analyses of the datasets and results will be carried out.
Grzegorz Sinicyn – hydrologist specialized in groundwater. Senior researcher and head of Hydrology and Water Management Division at Warsaw University of Technology. Groundwater modeling team leader in FORCE project. Experienced in many research works on groundwater flow and transport modeling, including governmental and industrial projects.
Paweł Osuch – Technical Associate and Research Assistant in the Department of Hydrology, Meteorology and Water Management at Warsaw University of Life Sciences. On a daily basis, Paweł deals with the implementation of projects related to hydrology, water management and environmental engineering. The daily duties include works related to administration, substantive support, field research and preparation of documentation and project settlements. In the FORCE project as a co-leader of WP2 Pawel will be involved in field research in cooperation with the WP2 leader; other responsibilities of this team member will be to provide hydrological data for the design of models and calculations of emissions and carbon sequestration in study mires.
Maria Grodzka-Łukaszewska – groundwater flow modeller. In FORCE, she is involved in every step related to peat water flow models – from fieldwork to numerical modeling. Professor assistant in the Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology. For 10 years fascinated by models of groundwater flow and transport, recently focused mainly on peats and their interaction with rivers.
Łukasz Kaczmarek – engineering geologist and hydrogeologist. Specialist in soil mechanics in the FORCE project. Assistant professor in the Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology. He was involved in research and implementation projects on geomechanics with the use of microtomography. Internships in Lithuania and Germany.
Anders Lyngstad – botanist, plant ecologist. Leading the FORCE project at NTNU, and a member of the steering committee. Researcher at the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim, Norway. His main research interests are peatland ecology and the ecology of semi-natural habitats, and he has worked extensively with Norwegian peatlands.
Paweł Gilewski – hydrologist. Responsible for acquisition and processing of remotely sensed data, in particular precipitation. Assistant professor at the Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology. An experienced hydrological modeler and enthusiast of remote sensing techniques.
Bartosz Bednarz – hydraulic engineering designer. Team member in the Force project. PhD student at the Faculty of Building Services, Hydro and Environmental Engineering. Scientific and technical specialist in the Department of Hydro-Engineering and Hydraulics at Warsaw University of Technology. He is involved in numerical modeling of underground infrastructure-soil interaction and adverse filtration phenomena in hydraulic and underground structures.
Anna Sieczko – aquatic biogeochemist with a focus on carbon cycling in freshwater. I have been involved in research which linked carbon fluxes, dissolved organic matter and microbial activity in projects conducted in Austria and Sweden. Currently, my research interest lays mainly in greenhouse gas emissions from freshwaters, such as river-floodplains, lakes and wetlands. In the FORCE project I am involved in the assessment of aquatic dynamics of CO2 and CH4, both in surface- and groundwater of mires.