Affiliations
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Postal address
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Room: B.01.20
Contact details
Email: aleksandra.pienkowska@idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 60252311
Websites
Research Interest
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.
Scientific career
Since 2026
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.