Assistant Professor, Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics
Instytut Geofizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
ul. Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warszawa
tel: +48 22 6915-672, e-mail: lprzyborowski@igf.edu.pl
Wykształcenie
- 2019: PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences PhD thesis: „Field experimental investigation of hydrodynamics of water flow-vegetation-sediment interactions at the scale of individual aquatic plant patches”
- 2013: MSc in Environmental Protection, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw MSc thesis: Precipitation – runoff model as the flood protection tool”
- 2011: BSc in Environmental Protection, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw BSc thesis: “Water management in Poland in 2000 – 2010”

Employment
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Since 2019 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics
Research topics:
- Plastic pollution transport in rivers
- Hydrodynamics of flow around aquatic vegetation
- Flow-sediment-vegetation interactions
- Precipitation-runoff hydrological modelling
- Water management
Research projects:
- 2024 – 2027 “Study of the mechanism of macroplastic litter transport in a stream with vegetation.” Sonata Project financed by the National Science Centre. Contract number: UMO-2023/51/D/ST10/02488. Principal investigator.
- 2022 – 2023 “Particle tracking velocimetry technique in the study of macroplastic transport in vegetated channels – scientific consultation.” Miniatura Project financed by the National Science Centre, DEC-2021/05/X/ST10/00443. Principal investigator
- 2022 COST Action CA20101: “Plastics monitoRIng detectiOn RemedIaTion recovery” travel grant for the 7th IAHR Europe Congress- Innovative water management in a changing climate, Athens 2022: Przyborowski et al., “Experiments on macroplastic storage in rivers with spur dikes”
- 2020 – 2021 „Flume experiments on bed particles’ movement”, Young Researchers Grant of IG PAS. Co-Investigator
- 2015 – 2019 “Field experimental investigation of hydrodynamics of water flow-vegetation-sediment interactions at the scale of individual aquatic plant” Sonata Project financed by the National Science Centre. Contract number: 2014/13/D/ST10/01123. Co-investigator.
Memberships
- 2022 – 2025 COST Action CA20101 – Priority, member
- 2020 – 2023 IAHR Young Professionals Network Poland chapter, member, treasurer
- 2022 Guest editor in special issue “Experimental methods and laboratory instrumentation in hydraulics” w Acta Geophysica
Publications from the Web of Science list:
- Przyborowski Ł., Cuban Z., Łoboda A., Robakiewicz M., Biegowski S., & Kolerski T. (2024) The effect of groyne field on trapping macroplastic. Preliminary results from laboratory experiments. Science of The Total Environment, 921, 171184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171184
- Xu Y., Valyrakis M., Gilja G., Michalis P., Yagci O., & Przyborowski Ł., (2022) Assessing Riverbed Surface Destabilization Risk Downstream Isolated Vegetation Elements. Water, 14(18), 2880. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14182880
- Przyborowski Ł., Nones M., Mrokowska M., Książek L., Phan C.N., Strużyński A., … & Wojak S., (2022) Preliminary evidence on laboratory experiments to detect the impact of transient flow on bedload transport. Acta Geophysica, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00743-5
- Przyborowski Ł., & Łoboda A.M., (2021) Identification of coherent structures downstream of patches of aquatic vegetation in a natural environment. Journal of Hydrology, 596, 126123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126123
- Przyborowski Ł., Łoboda A.M., Bialik R.J., (2019) Effect of two distinct patches of Myriophyllum species on downstream turbulence in a natural river. Acta Geophysica, 67, 987-997, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-019-00292-4
- Przyborowski Ł., Łoboda A.M., Bialik R.J., Västilä K. (2019) Flow field downstream of individual aquatic plants–experiments in a natural river with Potamogeton crispus L. and Myriophyllum spicatum L. Hydrological Processes, 33(9), 1324-1337. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13403
- Łoboda A.M., Bialik R.J., Karpiński M., Przyborowski Ł., (2019) Two simultaneously occurring Potamogeton species: similarities and differences in seasonal changes of biomechanical properties. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 28(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/85202
- Przyborowski Ł., Łoboda A.M., Bialik R.J., (2018) Experimental Investigations of Interactions between Sand Wave Movements, Flow Structure, and Individual Aquatic Plants in Natural Rivers: A Case Study of Potamogeton Pectinatus L. Water, 10, 1166. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10091166
- Łoboda A.M., Bialik R.J., Karpiński M., Przyborowski Ł., (2018) Seasonal changes in the biomechanical properties of Elodea canadensis Michx. Aquatic Botany, 147, 43-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2018.03.006
- Łoboda A.M., Przyborowski Ł., Karpiński M., Bialik R.J., Nikora V.I., (2018) Biomechanical properties of aquatic plants: The effect of test conditions. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 16, 222-236. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10239
- Przyborowski Ł., Łoboda A.M., Karpiński M., & Bialik R.J., (2018) Characteristics of flow around aquatic plants in natural conditions: Experimental setup, challenges and difficulties. In: Free surface flows and transport processes (pp. 347-361). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70914-7_23
Other publications:
- Przyborowski Ł., Gilja G., & Valyrakis M. (2025) Detached groynes impact on macroplastic transport. In: River Flow 2024 – Carnacina et al. (Eds) (pp. 673 – 678). DOI: 10.1201/9781003475378-98
- Przyborowski Ł., Gilja G., & Valyrakis M. (2024) Influence of rigid vegetation in groyne field on behaviour of buoyant macroplastic. In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics. Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen.
- Przyborowski Ł., Łoboda A., Biegowski J., Cuban Z., Malicki J., Robakiewicz M., & Biegowski S. (2023) Analysis of macroplastic transport in a river regulated by groynes. In Proceedings of 40th International School of Hydraulics 2023 (pp. 71-72).
- Varrani A., Przyborowski Ł., Mrokowska M., Rowiński P., Guerrero M. (2022) Measuring near-bed flow field in shallow quasi-uniform flow conditions with the used of an Ultrasonic Velocity Profiler. In: Proceedings of the 7th IAHR European Congress (Athens, 2022) (pp. 329-330).
- Raquib R., Przyborowski Ł., Valyrakis M. (2022) Assesment of the transport capacity of floating plastics through fluvial systems. In: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts EGU22-10189
- Varrani A., Guerrero M., Mrokowska M., Przyborowski Ł. (2022) Incipient motion of compact-shape microplastics: experimental design and expected results. Proceedings of the 2nd IAHR YP Congress (pp. 20-21).
- Książek L., Mitka B., Mrokowska M., Nones M., Phan C.N., Przyborowski Ł., Stróżyński A., Wojak S., Wyrębek M., (2021) Application of Digital Close-Range Photogrammetry to Determine Changes in Gravel Bed Surface due to Transient Flow Conditions. In: Publ Inst Geophys Pol Acad Sci, 434 (E11), pp. 95-96.
