Research Interests

• Biogeochemistry of new emerging contaminants (e.g pharmaceutical residues) in marine coastal ecosystem
• Analytical chemistry
• Denitrification and anammox

Projects

• IDEAL – Investigation of seasonal variability of the water column and sediment denitrification and anammox in the Baltic Sea – National Science Centre: co-investigator, 2020 – currently
• Mechanism of quantum dots excitation in photocatalytic reaction – National Science Centre: co-investigator, 2017 – 2020
• PharmSeepage – Assessment of the groundwater discharge as a source of pharmaceuticals residues in the marine environment of the Bay of Puck
• National Science Centre: co-investigator, 2017 – 2020

Publications (JCR list)

1. B. Szymczycha, M. Borecka, A. Białk-Bielińska, G. Siedlewicz, K. Pazdro, Submarine groundwater discharge as a source of pharmaceutical and caffeine residues in coastal ecosystem: Bay of Puck, southern Baltic Sea case study, Science of the Total Environment, 713 (2020) 136522.
2. G. Siedlewicz, A. Białk-Bielińska, M. Borecka, A. Winogradow, P. Stepnowski, K. Pazdro, Presence, concentrations and risk assessment of selected antibiotic residues in sediments and near-bottom waters collected from the Polish coastal zone in the southern Baltic Sea - summary of 3 years of studies, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 129 (2018) 787-801.
3. A. Białk-Bielińska, J. Kumirska, M. Borecka, M. Caban, M. Paszkiewicz, K. Pazdro, P. Stepnowski, Selected analytical challenges in the determination of pharmaceuticals in drinking/marine waters and soil/sediment samples, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 121 (2016) 271-296.
4. G. Siedlewicz, M. Borecka, A. Białk-Bielińska, K. Sikora, P. Stepnowski, K. Pazdro, Determination of antibiotic residues in southern Baltic Sea sediments using tandem solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry, Oceanologia, 58 (2016) 221-234.
5. A. Puckowski, K. Mioduszewska, P. Łukaszewicz, M. Borecka, M. Caban, J. Maszkowska, P. Stepnowski, Bioaccumulation and analytics of pharmaceutical residues in the environment: a review, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 127 (2016) 232-255.
6. K. Pazdro, M. Borecka, G. Siedlewicz, A. Białk-Bielińska, P. Stepnowski, Analysis of the Residues of Pharmaceuticals in Marine Environment: State-of the Art, Analytical Problems and Challenges, Current Analytical Chemistry, 12 (2016) 202-226.
7. M. Borecka, A. Białk-Bielińska, Ł. P. Haliński, K. Pazdro, P. Stepnowski, S. Stolte, The influence of salinity on the toxicity of selected sulfonamides and trimethoprim towards the green algae Chlorella vulgaris, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 308 (2016) 179-186.
8. M. Borecka, G. Siedlewicz, Ł. P. Haliński, K. Sikora, K. Pazdro, P. Stepnowski, A. Białk-Bielińska, Contamination of the southern Baltic Sea waters by the residues of selected pharmaceuticals: method development and field studies, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 94 (2015) 62-71.
9. M. Borecka, A. Białk-Bielińska, G. Siedlewicz, K. Kornowska, J. Kumirska, P. Stepnowski, K. Pazdro, A new approach for the estimation of expanded uncertainty of results of an analytical method developed for determining antibiotics in seawater using solid-phase extraction disks and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry technique, Journal of Chromatography A, 1304 (2013) 138-146.

Awards

• Scholarship financed from European Social Fund in as a part of the project "Educators for the elite – integrated training program for PhD students, post-docs and professors as academic teachers at University of Gdansk" within the framework of Human Capital Operational Programme, Action IV, 2014 – 2015.
• The Award of Professor Stanisław Szymborski granted by the director of the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences for the best oral presentation in the field of natural sciences during 5th Sopot Forum for Young Scientists: Where the World is Heading, Sopot, 2013.