room 204 (building C-6) Phone +48 71 320-25-58 agnieszka.pawlowska@pwr.edu.pl

Scientific interests

• Bioleaching of Polish ores and waste materials; physicochemical and hydrodynamic aspects of bio-extraction processes
• Adsorption of biosurfactants and biopolymers on the surface of minerals

Research projects

• Sonata-17, Physicochemical aspects of arsenic-bearing waste bioleaching (2022-2025). Role: leader. Project financed by the National Science Centre.  http://zich.pwr.edu.pl/projekty/sonata-17-2021-43-d-st10-02784
• „BioLeach: Innovative Bio-treatment of RM.” Project co-financed by the European Union (2019-2022). Role: researcher. The leader of the project: Technical University of Košice (Slovakia). https://eitrawmaterials.eu/project/bioleach
• SlagFert+. Development of technologies for the recovery of metals from copper ore smelting slag and their use in the production of fertilizers enriched with microelements, under the assumptions of a circular economy. Project co-financed by the National Centre for Research and Development and KGHM Polska Miedź S.A. (2019-2022). Role: researcher. Project leader: Wrocław University of Technology, Department of Advanced Materials Technology (K26W03D05).  

Selected publications

1. Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Zygmunt Sadowski, Katarzyna K. Winiarska, Bioleaching of sulfide containing material from the Wiśniówka Quarry: stability and adhesion of secondary products. Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing, 58(2022), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.37190/ppmp/149884
2. Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Zygmunt Sadowski, Katarzyna K. Winiarska, Effect of rhamnolipids and lipopolysaccharides on the bioleaching of arsenic-bearing waste. Minerals.11( 2021), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11121303
3. Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Zygmunt Sadowski, Effect of schwertmannite surface modification by surfactants on adhesion of acidophilic bacteria. Microorganisms. 8(2020), 1-13.  https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8111725
4. Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Zygmunt Sadowski, Bioreduction in the development of new mineral technology, W: Mineral Engineering Conference (MEC 2019), 012031(2019)1-8. http://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/641/1/012031
5. Agnieszka Didyk-Mucha, Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Zygmunt Sadowski, Modification of mineral surfaces by adsorption of biosurfactants produced by Streptomyces sp., Colloids and Surfaces A-Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 579(2019)1-8. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927775719306533?via%3Dihub
6. Zygmunt Sadowski, Joanna A. Barańska, Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Surface properties of neutral components in copper column bioleaching of black shale samples, Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 54(2018)1146-1151. http://www.minproc.pwr.wroc.pl/journal/pdf/ppmp18145.pdf
7. Agnieszka M. Pawłowska, Zygmunt Sadowski, Influence of chemical and biogenic leaching on surface area and particle size of laterite ore, Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 53(2017)869-877. http://dx.doi.org/10.5277/ppmp170216