Scientific activity
- Development of new methods of determining trace components in samples of complex matrixe
- Development of new methodologies for environmental monitoring and biomonitoring
- Designing, constructing and testing analytical characteristics of prototype control-measurement devices,
- Assessing pollution of particular abiotic environmental compartments and determining processes occurring in these compartments (transport, degradation…)
- Assessing environmental fate of xenobiotics and bioaccumulation processes in tissues and organs of living organisms,
- Applying modern analytical techniques to check quality of food products
- Development of new techniques of producing materials of special properties and/or high purity grade tested with use of chromatographic techniques,
- Organizing interlaboratory studies and proficiency testing.
Analytical, research and technological services
- Elaboration of solutions in the field of environmental monitoring and biomonitoring.
- The pollution level assessment in animate and inanimate elements of the environment, and the investigations of undergoing processes and the environmental fate of xenobiotics in those elements.
- Analyzing the quality of food products by using analytical techniques.
- Analytical biochemistry (proteogenomics).
- Designing, constructing and testing the analytical characteristics of prototypic modules that are used in the standardized controlling and measuring equipment.
- Developing novel technologies for manufacturing materials characterized by special properties and/or high level of purity.
- Developing technologies for the production of novel reference materials.
- Organizing the inter-laboratory comparisons.
- The ecotoxicity assessment of xenobiotics and their mixtures.
- Training in the following areas: proper use of a wide variety of analytical equipment; courses on gas chromatography and liquid chromatography (at different levels of progression); and courses on sample preparation prior to analysis.
- Assessing quality and pollution level of drinking water, air, effluents, wastes and technical materials of different origin and of different composition,
- Assessing indoor air quality (air in rooms for permanent presence of humans),
- Assessing occupational air quality,
- Constructing special modules which can be coupled with commercial control-measurement devices (gas and liquid chromatographs, monitors of environmental pollutants…) designed for:
- isolation and/or preconcentration of analytes,
- drying and cleaning gas streams,
- deoxygenation of gas streams,
- liberation of analytes from appropriate traps (thermal desorbers). - Constructing and testing generators of gaseous standard mixtures,
- Implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Life Cycle Assessment of goods and services,
- Constructing and testing gas and liquid chromatographs for teaching students.
Training services
- Training personnel to operate of wide range of analytical instruments,
- Courses of gas and liquid chromatography (for different advance levels)
- Courses of sample preparation for analyses,
- Postgraduates studies:
- Analytics of food and environmental pollution
- Control and quality assurance of results of analytical measurements, - Applying biotests for assessing environmental pollution.