environmental magnetism, environmental geochemistry, anthropogenic pollutants (heavy metals, PAHs, microplastics), road dust, neural networks and machine learning in environmental data analysis, magnetic and physicochemical methods in environmental analysis

• 2018 – present – Adjunct (Assistant Professor), Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
• 2017 – Geophysicist, project European Plate Observing System (EPOS-PL), Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
• 2015 – 2016 – Research Assistant, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Magnetism
• 2011 – 2015 – Ph.D. Student, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department of Magnetism,

• 2013-2014 Head of the Grant for Young Scientists IGF PAS: The study of the ability to accumulate pollution anthropogenic in different soil types.
• 2014-2016 : Head of PRELUDIUM-6 NCN The use of magnetic method to study the spread of anthropogenic pollution in conjunction with soil parameters and the structure of urban soils in model soil profiles. 2013/11/N/ST10/01767
• 2016-2017 Head of the Grant for Young Scientists IGF PAS: Characteristics of magnetic properties of traffic-related pollution accumulated in dust from road tunnels in Warsaw and Cracow.
• European Plate Observing System (EPOS-PL),co-investigator in task dedicated to CIBAL Analytical Laboratories Research Infrastructure Centre (2016-2021).
• 2017 Contractor in Research Grant OPUS, National Science Center, Poland, Magnetic properties of iron oxides contained in household dust as an indicator of indoor air pollution by heavy metals .Własności magnetyczne tlenków żelaza zawartych w kurzu domowym jako wskaźnik zanieczyszczenia powietrza wewnętrznego metalami ciężkimi. Grant number 2013/09/B/ST10/02780.
• 2023 Head of the Grant for Young Scientists IGF PAS: Studies of air pollutants in the urban environment. Grant number: 500-10-52.European Plate Observing System+ (EPOS-PL+),co-investigator in task dedicated to Analytical Laboratories Research Infrastructure Centre (2010-2023).
• 2022-2026 Task 5.9 Leader within the GEO-INQUIRE project (“Geo-Infrastructure for Quake Resilience”), a European Union-funded Horizon Europe initiative (2022-2026). https://www.geo-inquire.eu/
• 2022-2026 Head of the Research Grant Sonata, National Science Center, Poland, NCN “Elaboration of new application of magnetic parameters for the assessment of the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon pollution in granulometric fractions of street dust” (NCN Grant No. 2021/43/D/ST10/00996, 2022-2026)

• 2023 – Research visit at the Queensland University of Technology, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (Australia) financed by Grant for Young Scientists IGF PAS: Studies of air pollutants in the urban environment. Grant number: 500-10-52.
• 2022–2023 – Bekker NAWA Scholarship awarded by the Director of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (2021 edition). The grant supported a prestigious research fellowship at the Queensland University of Technology, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (Australia), The project “Airborne ultrafine particles in urban areas: geochemical composition, sources and health effects.”BPN/BEK/2021/1/00348, 
• Październik 2018 – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy funded by PAS and Accademia dei Lincei, research visit, “New methods in environmental magnetism – First Order Reversal Curves”
• Październik–listopad 2014 – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, research visit, “The magnetic and geochemical properties of street dust”
• Październik 2013 – Institute of Geophysics (IGP) National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, research visit, “Magnetic properties of polluted soils in Ukraine”
• Listopad 2012 – Institute of Geophysics (IGP) National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, research, “Magnetic properties of polluted soils in Ukraine”

• 2026-2027 Guest Editor for the Special Issue of the journal Urban Science (MDPI ) “Air Quality Challenges in Urban Areas: Monitoring, Sources and Health Implications”
• Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), from 2025. Responsible for managing the peer-review process in the fields of geophysics and environmental sciences.
• Auxiliary supervisor of Ph.D. Thesis: Iga Szczepaniak-Wnuk Assessment of heavy metal pollution of Vistula River sediments within selected areas using magnetic methods. 2019 Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.

• Jayaratne, R., Thompson, H., Dytłow, S., Phunthirawuthi, P., Thai, P., Thai, P. K., Buonanno, G., & Morawska, L. (2025). Spatial variation of ultrafine particle concentration across an urban environment. ACS ES&T Air, 2(12), 3082–3091. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.5c00340
• Dytłow, S., Kida, M., & Ziembowicz, S. (2025). Examining magnetic susceptibility as a proxy for microplastic pollution in granulometric fractions of road dust: A case study in Warsaw, Poland. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 494, Article 138493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138493.
• Dytłow, S., Karasiński, G. Exploring the particle size effect, land use classification, and magnetic characteristics of street dust in urbanized areas in Poland. Sci Rep 15, 12844 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95972-1.
• Dytłow, S., Karasiński, J. & Torres-Elguera, J.C. Baseline concentrations and quantitative health risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in relation to particle grain size in street dust of Warsaw Poland. Environ Geochem Health 47, 23 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-024-02344-1.
• Górka-Kostrubiec B., Świetlik R., Szumiata T., Dytłow S., Trojanowska M., 2023. Integration of chemical fractionation, Mössbauer spectrometry, and magnetic methods for identification of Fe phases bonding heavy metals in street dust. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 124, 875 – 891. DOI 10.1016/j.jes.2022.02.015.
• Dytłow, S., Górka-Kostrubiec, B., 2021. Concentration of heavy metals in street dust: an implication of using different geochemical background data in estimating the level of heavy metal pollution. Environ Geochem Health 43, 521–535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-020-00726-9.
• Górka-Kostrubiec , T. Magiera, K.Dudzisz, S. Dytłow, M. Wawer, A. Winkler, 2020. Integrated Magnetic Analyses for the Discrimination of Urban and Industrial Dusts. Minerals 2020, 10(12), 1056. https://doi.org/10.3390/min10121056.
• Szczepaniak-Wnuk, I., Górka-Kostrubiec, B., Dytłow, S., Szwarczewski, P., Kwapuliński, P., Karasiński, J., 2020. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27, 24129–-24144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08608-4
• Sylwia Dytłow, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, 2019. Effective and universal tool for evaluating heavy metals—passive dust samplers. Environmental Pollution, 247, 188-194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2019.01.030.
• Sylwia Dytłow, Aldo Winkler, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, Leonardo Sagnotti, 2019. Magnetic, geochemical and granulometric properties of street dust from Warsaw (Poland). Journal of Applied Geophysics, 169, 58-73, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.06.016
• Beata Górka – Kostrubiec, Aneta Hanc-Kuczkowska, Iga Szczepaniak-Wnuk, Maria Jeleńska, Sylwia Dytłow, Tomasz Werner, 2019. Detection of metallic iron in urban dust by using high-temperature measurements supplemented with microscopic observations and Mössbauer spectra. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 166, 89-102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.04.022.
• Maria Jeleńska, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, Sylwia K. Dytłow, 2018. Magnetic vertical structure of soil as a result of transformation of iron oxides during pedogenesis. The case study of soil profiles from Slovakia and Ukraine. Magnetometry in Environmental Sciences, 103-125, Publisher: Springer International Publishing, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60213-4_8.
• Beata Górka-Kostrubiec., Maria Teisseyre-Jeleńska, Sylwia K. Dytłow, 2016. Magnetic properties as indicators of Chernozem soil development. Catena, 138, 91–102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.11.014
• Sylwia K. Dytłow, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, 2014. Magnetic parameters as an indicator of the processes occurring in the degraded Chernozem developed in loess from Miechow area. Przegląd Naukowy, Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska, Wydawnictwa SGGW, Warszawa, 23, 170-184.
• Sylwia K. Dytłow, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, 2013. Magnetometry application to the analysis of air pollution accumulated on tree leaves. Environmental Engineering IV – Pawłowski, Dudzińska & Pawłowski (ed) ©Taylor & Francis Group, 317-323.
• Sylwia K. Dytłow, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, 2013. Application of magnetic methods in biomonitoring of environmental pollution. Prace i Studia Geograficzne, Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych, Uniwersytet Warszawski 51, 7-16.
• Sylwia K. Dytłow, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, Ksenia Bondar, 2013. The use of measurements of magnetic susceptibility for monitoring of air pollution. Interdyscyplinarne Zagadnienia w Inżynierii i Ochronie Środowiska, Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wrocławskiej, Wrocław, 3, 121-127.

• Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, Tomasz Werner, Sylwia Dytłow, Iga Szczepaniak-Wnuk, Maria Jeleńska and Aneta Hanc-Kuczkowska, 2018. Detection of metallic iron in urban dust by magnetic methods and microscopic observations. Conference Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Atmospheric Dust – DUST2018, Published by Digilabs S.a.s., https://www.scientevents.com/proscience/, DOI:10.14644/dust.2018.008
• Sylwia Dytłow, Beata Górka-Kostrubiec, 2018. Comparison of traffic-related pollution level using street dust and passive dust samplers. Conference Proceedings 3rd International Conference on Atmospheric Dust – DUST2018, Published by Digilabs S.a.s., https://www.scientevents.com/proscience/, DOI:10.14644/dust.2018.006.

• The 1st Scientific Workshop – Environmental Magnetism “Magnetometry as a tool to study the structure and environment changes and the evaluation of its pollution”, 28. 09 2015, Warsaw, Poland,
• The 2nd Scientific Workshop – Environmental Magnetism “Magnetometry as a tool to study the structure and environment changes and the evaluation of its pollution”, 29. 10 2018, Warsaw, Poland,
• Participation in the organizational committee of the 16th Castle Meeting – New Trends on Paleo, Rock and Environmental Magnetism, 10 – 16 June 2018, Chęciny, Poland.