Organizing Committee Member
Jerzy Bolalek
Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Chemistry and Environment Protection
Gdansk University
Poland
Biography
Jerzy Bolalek is Professor and Chair of the Department of Marine Chemistry and Environment Protection at Gdansk University. He specializes in the field of chemical oceanography, hydrochemistry and environmental protection. The most important scientific achievements are authorship or co-authorship of about 150 works, including about 60 original works published in English in journals of international scope. He is also an author and co-author of a number of expert opinions on the quality of marine waters as well as two Polish standards. He is a member of the Sea Research Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editorial boards of the Journal of Marine Science and Research (since 2016) and Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies (since 2012). He also has extensive experience in assessing the quality of education at Polish universities.
Research Area
Chemical composition of marine bottom sediments, interactions in the sediment-water interface, biogenic substances, processes of transformation of organic matter in marine bottom sediment.