Author: S. S. Narwal

Prof. Lech Szajdak, Professor (Agronomy) since 2006, is presently Chairman, Department of Environment Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural and Forest Environment, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland. He obtained M.Sc. (Pharmacy) in 1977, Ph.D. (Pharmacy) in 1986 and Doctor (Honoris causa) in 2009 from Estonia University of Life Sciences, Tartu. His professional interests are: (i) Free and bound biologically active substance (amino acids, phenolic acids, auxins, humic and fulvic acids, transient radicals, enzymes) in soils under crop rotation and continuous cropping of rye, conventional and no-tillage, fertilized with different mineral and organic fertilizers; (ii) Soil enzymes involved in nitrogen cycle; (iii) Chemical and biochemical process in organic soils, use of peat and peatlands in agriculture and the influences of secondary transformed peat soil on the content of hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic compounds of well-known and unknown structure. Professor Szajdak has more than 350 research papers and 24 chapters in Monographs in his credit. He was Guest editor of 2-Special Issues “Restoration of Peatland Soil for Agricultural Use” and “Processes, Mechanism and Use of Organic Soils” in Agronomy Research and Plant and Soil, respectively. He has been principal investigator of 15 projects. He is member of Polish Humus Substances Society, International Humus Substances Society and European Geosciences Union.