dr hab. inż. Izabela Sówka

Specialization: protection of the atmosphere, health effects caused by air pollution

She has been associated with the Wrocław University of Technology for nearly 20 years. She is currently working at the Department of Environmental Protection Engineering at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of the Wrocław University of Technology. She is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development and Climate Protection at the Wrocław University of Technology.


Vice-President of the State Council for Environmental Protection. Member of the University Team on Social Responsibility, the working group on Air Protection and Energy comprising the “Environmental Partnership for Development” national network, the working group on Air Quality and Energy Efficiency and the working group on Dolnośląskie Voivodeship Just Transition Fund, LIFE- MAPPINGAIR/PL steering committee, and the Advisory Team for the Development of the Act on Counteracting Odour Nuisance. A member of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, in Zabrze.


Author and co-author of over 250 scientific publications. Initiator and manager of the powietrze.pwr.edu.pl project. Organizer and co-organizer of national and international conferences in the field of broadly understood air protection. Long-term coordinator of the Lower Silesian Science Festival at the Wrocław University of Technology. Tutor of the Environmental Team Student Scientific Group at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology Organizer of the first University Climate Days held in Poland at the Wrocław University of Technology.
Expertise and scope of scientific interests: innovations in environmental engineering, methods of collection and measurement, and chemical transformations of atmospheric air pollutants, changes in the global atmosphere, planning and development of field research methodology and air pollution modelling, methods of removing pollutants from industrial gases, RES, as well as the effects of air pollution on health.

Contact: izabela.sowka[at]pwr.edu.pl