Assistant Professor,  Hydrology and Hydrodynamics Department

Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
address: Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw
phone: +48 22 6915-672, e-mail: lprzyborowski@igf.edu.pl

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Education

  • 2019 – Ph.D. in Natural Sciences in the discipline of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Doctoral thesis title: “Field experimental investigation of hydrodynamics of water flow-vegetation-sediment interactions at the scale of individual aquatic plant patches”, Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 – M.Sc. in Eng. in Environmental Protection, environmental protection and shaping programme; Master’s thesis title “Rainfall-runoff model as a hydrological tool”; engineer’s thesis title: “Water management in Poland in 2000-2010”, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology

Employment

Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences

  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Hydrology and Hydrodynamics, 2019 – present

Research topics

  • Plastic pollution transport in rivers
  • Hydrodynamics of flow around aquatic vegetation
  • Flow-sediment-vegetation interactions
  • Precipitation-runoff hydrological modelling
  • Water management

Research Grants

  • 2024 – 2027 Study of the mechanism of macroplastic litter transport in a stream with vegetation. Project funded by the National Science Centre. Contract number: 2023/51/D/ST10/02488. Principal investigator.
  • 2021 – 2023 Particle tracking velocimetry technique in the study of macroplastic transport in vegetated channels – scientific consultation. Project funded by the National Science Centre. Contract number: 2021/05/X/ST10/00443. Principal investigator.
  • 2022 Plastics monitoRIng detectiOn RemedIaTion recovery COST Action CA20101 personal grant for the costs of participation in 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. Project funded by the National Science Centre. Contract number: 2014/13/D/ST10/01123. Co-investigator.

Membership in organizations

  • Member of Organizing Committee of: 36th, 40th and 42nd International School of Hydraulics; 6th IAHR Europe Congress
  • Member of COST Action CA20101 – Priority, since 2022
  • Member of IAHR Young Professionals Network Poland chapter, 2020 – 2022; Member of IAHR 2024
  • Guest editor in special issue “Experimental methods and laboratory instrumentation in hydraulics” in Acta Geophysica
Publications on 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).
  • 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