Research | Faculty of Chemistry at the Gdańsk University of Technology

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.