Dean’s office: Building L, 1st floor
E-mail address: wimbis@ubb.edu.pl
Main fields of study:
- Environmental Protection and Management
- Environmental Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Material Engineering
Departments and main research areas:
Department of Material Science and Engineering:
- Analysis of processes accompanying phase transitions in polymers such as crystallization and melting and comprehensive characterization of the supramolecular structure of polymers, using the technique of wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXS) and small-range X-ray scattering (SAXS).
- Standard infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, DSC, TGA and DMTA thermal analyses of polymer materials.
- Synthesis of conductive polyaniline fibres.
- Modification of the cellulose structure and studies of plasticization of cellulose derivatives.
- Formation of the cellulose structure and studies of fibrous scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration.
- Modification of thermoplastic polymers, using nanoadditives.
- Studies on the use of polypropylene fibres for reinforcing concrete.
Department of Environmental Protection and Engineering:
- Assessment of precipitation acidification and modelling of interactions between small molecules and macromolecules, using molecular dynamics and molecular mechanisms at atomic and mesoscale levels.
- Evaluation of the condition of man-made biotopes using vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens, and environmental valorization of areas based on geobotanical methods.
- Studies of the impact of topography, meteorological, hydrological and soil conditions on the spread of environmental pollution, particularly in mountainous areas.
- Involvement of filamentous bacteria in the phosphorus recovery cycle.
- Evaluation of methods, systems and efficiency of municipal sewage and industrial water treatment.
- Studies on air pollution, including evaluation of the methods and devices for air protection in the coke industry, metallurgy, casting engineering.
Department of Civil Engineering:
- Developments of methods for non-destructive testing (NDT) civil engineering structures, FBG, Residual Magnetic Field (RMF) Method.
- Numerical analysis of nonlinear civil engineering construction, reinforced concrete and wooden structures and their joints.
- A comprehensive solution to the problems of design and assessment of steel scaffolding.
- Analysis of chosen factors influencing results of soils laboratory tests.
- Harmonization of geotechnical design in Europe.
- Soils improvement by synthetic fibres.
- Analysis of the influence of additives and addmixtures on physical and mechanical parameters of ordinary and high-quality plasters, designing skeleton buildings with a composite steel-and-concrete construction, calculating methods in multi-layered constructions.
- The teaching and research activities include close collaboration with related teams at Universities and Reasearch Institutes in Poland and abroad, including, Czechia, Germany, Slovakia and USA.
- Analysis, expertises and expert’s reports in range of traffic engineering and road safety.
- Testing of geosynthetics based on the standard methods.
- Risk management in construction industry.
