Dr. Aleksandra Pienkowska (PostDoc)
Contact:
Department for Physiological Diversity
German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
My research focuses on soil biogeochemical processes that regulate the mobility of nutrients and contaminants, and shape their availability to soil microorganisms and plants. My current work explores how seasonal pulses of pollen deposition affect nutrient cycling in soils and their potential consequences for soil biota.
2026 - ongoing
Postdoc researcher
Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ; German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research iDiv
2021-2025
Ph.D. in Environmental Science
Department of Applied Microbial Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig; Department of Geoscience, University of Tübingen
Project title: Adaptation of agriculture systems to metal and climate change stressors.
2018 - 2021
M.Sc. in Applied & Environmental Geoscience
Department of Geoscience, University of Tübingen
Thesis: Microbially-mediated processes leading to arsenic (im)mobilization in the Van Phuc (Vietnam) aquifer.
2014 - 2018
B.Sc. in Geology
College of the Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw
Thesis: Rare earth elements in selected sedimentary rocks.
2014 - 2017
B.Sc. in Biotechnology
College of the Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw
Thesis: Bacterial processes of rare earth elements redistribution in the underground mining environment of the Legnica-Głogów Cuprum District.
Aquatic-terrestrial-atmospheric coupling of ecosystem processes
Index:
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2025 (4)
- Hill, R.C., Pieńkowska, A., Merbach, I., Reitz, T., Muehe, E.M., Vengosh, A. (2025):
Impacts of fertilization on metal(loid) transfer from soil to wheat in a long-term fertilization experiment – using 87Sr/86Sr isotopes as metal(loid) tracer
Environ. Int. 205 , art. 109851 10.1016/j.envint.2025.109851 - Hill, R., Pieńkowska, A., Merbach, I., Reitz, T., Muehe, E.M., Vengosh, A. (2025):
Data from: Long-term fertilization impacts on metal(loid) transfer from soil to wheat in a 120-year fertilization experiment - using 87Sr/86Sr isotopes as metal(loid) tracer
Duke Research Data Repository 10.7924/r40293w8x - Pieńkowska, A., Fleischmann, J., Drabesch, S., Merbach, I., Wang, G., Nunes da Rocha, U., Reitz, T., Muehe, E.M. (2025):
Long-term organic fertilization shields soil prokaryotes from metal stress while mineral fertilization exacerbates it
Environ. Pollut. 382 , art. 126747 10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126747 - Pieńkowska, A., Glöckle, A., Sánchez, N., Khadela, S., Richter, P.-G., Merbach, I., Herzberg, M., Kilian, J., Prada Salcedo, L.D., Reitz, T., Muehe, E.M. (2025):
Climate change increases toxic cadmium loads more than nutritional metals in spinach
Research Square 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5947512/v1