Tel: +48 713759222 | Mail: jakub.kierczak@uwr.edu.pl
Research /Badania naukowe/
My research interests mainly concern the distribution and mobility of metallic elements in natural and anthropogenic soils and in industrial waste. I look at these issues from two different perspectives. One approach is to study ultramafic soils and their relationship with the natural Cr and Ni cycle in nature.
For example, my recent research has shown that certain rocks are an essential natural source of metals to the environment. The soils developed on ultramafic rocks contain nickel and chromium in concentrations many times exceeding those considered acceptable in arable soils.
The second main topic of my scientific activity is the research of smelting slags and, above all, an attempt to determine their impact on the environment and the possibility of using them for recovery.
My approach is interdisciplinary as I work at the border between mineralogy, geochemistry, soil science, and biology through comprehensive studies of rocks, metallurgical slags, soils, and plants.
Moje zainteresowania naukowe dotyczą w głównej mierze rozprzestrzenienia i mobilności pierwiastków metalicznych w glebach naturalnych i antropogenicznych oraz w odpadach przemysłowych. Staram się podchodzić do tych zagadnień dwukierunkowo. Z jednej strony poprzez badania gleb ultramaficznych i ich związku z naturalnym obiegiem Cr i Ni w przyrodzie. Z drugiej strony badając żużle hutnicze a przede wszystkim ich wpływ na środowisko i możliwości wykorzystania do odzysku substancji użytecznych. Do przedstawionych zagadnień stosuję podejście interdyscyplinarne pracując na pograniczu mineralogii i geochemii, gleboznawstwa i biologii poprzez kompleksowe badania skał, żużli hutniczych, gleb i roślin.
Research projects / Udział w projektach badawczych
,Scientific advisor / Opiekun naukowy
- PRELUDIUM Project No 2019/35/N/ST10/04524 | 2020 - 2023
- FUGA Project No 2016/20/S/ST10/00545 | 2016 - 2019
- DIAMOND GRANT Project No DI2015 023345 | 2016 - 2019
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: "Copper and iron stable isotopes as tracers of non-ferrous historical metal objects - validation to the metal provenance studies" awarded to MSc. Katarzyna Derkowska (Kądziołka).
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: "Reconstruction of the bioweathering processes of metallurgical waste from copper production" awarded to dr. Anna Potysz.
The project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education: "Analysis of the environmental impact of historical smelting slags from the vicinity of Leszczyna and Kondratów" awarded to Ms.Katarzyna Derkowska (Kądziołka).
Principal investigator / Kierownik projektu
- OPUS Project No 2021/43/B/ST10/01594 | 2022 - 2026
- SONATA Project No 2012/05/D/ST10/00529 | 2013 - 2016
- Project No N N307 051237 | 2009 - 2012
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: "The fate of metallic elements during mineral carbonation of ultramafic rocks and associated mine wastes" awarded to Dr. Jakub Kierczak.
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: "Relationships between the type of ultrabasic parent rock and mobility and bioavailability of selected elements in serpentine soils from south-western Poland" awarded to Dr. Jakub Kierczak.
The project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education: “Phase and chemical characteristic of historical slags from Miedzianka and Janowice Wielkie (Lower Silesia) and their impact on the environment” awarded to Dr. Jakub Kierczak.
Researcher / Wykonawca
- OPUS Project No 2017/25/B/ST10/00180 | 2018 - 2022
- SONATA Project No 2014/15/D/ST10/04087 | 2015 - 2018
- OPUS Project No 2014/13/B/ST10/01120 | 2015 - 2019
- OPUS Project No 2013/09/B/ST10/00032 | 2014 - 2018
- OPUS Project No 2012/07/B/ST10/03820 | 2013 - 2017
- POLONIUM Project | 2006 - 2007
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: "Towards constraining timespan of Permain volcanic activity in Europe: implications from analyses of chemically variable zircon populations by CA-ID-TIMS" awarded to Dr. Anna Pietranik
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: “Verification of homogeneity of the parent material in soils formed from crystalline and sedimentary rocks in the loess influence zone in the area of Lower Silesia ” awarded to Dr. Jarosław Waroszewski.
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: "Processes leading to intensive weathering of pyrometallurgical slag dumps (Zn-Pb slag dump in Świętochłowice)." awarded to Dr. Rafał Tyszka
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: “Timescales and petrogenetic traces of magma evolution in the Niemcza Zone ” awarded to Dr. Anna Pietranik.
The project funded by the Polish National Research Centre: “The use of petrographic and mineralogical studies as a tool to determine the chronological stratification on the example of the historical walls of the Cistercian monastery in Lubiąż” awarded to Dr. Wojciech Bartz.
The project entitled: "Nickel and Cr in agricultural soils and industrial wastelands at the vicinity of abandoned Ni mine and smelter in Szklary" implemented as part of bilateral cooperation between Poland and France under the POLONIUM program.