Associate Professor

​Head of Hydrodynamic Models Labortory

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
addres: Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw
phone: +48 22 6915-849, e-mail: m.mrokowska@igf.edu.pl

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Research interests

• impact of marine gels on sedimentation,
• particle settling dynamics in stratified liquids and in non-Newtonian liquids with links to marine environment,
•  impact of properties of particles on their transport in hydro-environment (marine snow, microplastics), 
• gravity currents,
• transport of sediment and microplastics in open channels,
•  experimental methods, laboratory techniques.

Selected publications

• Mrokowska M.M., Krztoń-Maziopa A., 2024: Settling of microplastics in mucus-rich water column: The role of biologically modified rheology of seawater Science of The Total Environment, 912, 168767, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168767
• Mrokowska M.M., Krztoń-Maziopa A., 2023: Dataset on rheological measurements of xanthan gum aqueous dispersions containing sodium chloride and settling dynamics of spheres and disks in these dispersions Data in Brief, 46, 108865, doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108865
• Mrokowska M.M., Krztoń-Maziopa A., Dębowski M., 2022: Effect of exopolymer gels on the viscoelasticity of mucus-rich saltwater and settling dynamics of particles Marine Chemistry, 246, 104163, doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2022.104163

• Przyborowski Ł., Nones M., Mrokowska M., Książek L.,  Phan C.N., Strużyński A., Wyrębek M., Mitka B., Wojak S., 2022: Preliminary evidence on laboratory experiments to detect the impact of transient fow on bedload transport Acta Geophysica, doi.org/10.1007/s11600-022-00743-5

• Mrokowska, M.M., 2020: Influence of pycnocline on settling behaviour of non-spherical particle and wake evolution Scientific  Reports 10: 20595, DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-77682-y
• Mrokowska, M.M., 2020: Dynamics of thin disk settling in two-layered fluid with density transition Acta Geophysica 68:1145–1160. DOI:10.1007/s11600-020-00455-8

• Mrokowska M.M., Krztoń-Maziopa A. 2019: Viscoelastic and shear-thinning effects of aqueous exopolymer solution on disk and sphere settling Scientific Reports, 9: 7897, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44233-z

• Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M. 2019:  Impact of Unsteady Flow Events on Bedload Transport: A Review of Laboratory Experiments Water, 11(5), 907, DOI: 10.3390/w11050907

• Mrokowska M.M., 2018:  Stratification-induced reorientation of disk settling through ambient density transition Scientific Reports, 8, 412, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18654-7

• Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., Książek L., Strużyński A., Wyrębek M., Radecki-Pawlik A., 2018: Laboratory studies on bedload transport under unsteady flow conditions Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 66, 1, 66, 23–31, DOI: 10.1515/johh-2017-0032

• Kalinowska, M.B., Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., 2018: Sensitivity Analysis for the Water-Air Heat Exchange Term In (ed. M.B. Kalinowska I in.) Free Surface Flows and Transport Processes; Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-70914-7_13

• Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., 2017: Bed shear stresses and bed shear velocities - ubiquitous variables in river hydraulics, In: A. Radecki-Pawlik, S. Pagliara, J. Hradecky (Eds) Open Channel Hydraulics, River Hydraulic Structures and Fluvial Geomorphology: For Engineers, Geomorphologists and Physical Geographers,CRC Press, pp. 180-195
• Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M., Książek L., Strużyński A., Wyrębek M., Radecki-Pawlik A., 2016: Flume experiments on gravel bed load transport in unsteady flow – preliminary results In (eds. P. Rowiński, A. Marion) Hydrodynamic and mass transport at freshwater aquatic interfaces. Geoplanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, pp. 221-233, DOI 10.1007/978-319-27750-9_18
• Mrokowska,M.M., Rowiński, P. M., and Kalinowska, M. B., 2015: A methodological approach of estimating resistance to flow under unsteady flow conditions Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19, 4041-4053, DOI 10.5194/hess-19-4041-2015
• Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński R.M., Kalinowska M.B., 2015: Evaluation of friction velocity in unsteady flow experiments Journal of Hydraulic Research, 53(5), 659-669,  DOI 10.1080/00221686.2015.1072853

Editorial Boards and Scientific Committees

• Senior Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2020 - present
• Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), 2018 - 2020
• Guest Editor Acta Geophysica 2021 - 2022
• Chair of Scientific Committee: XL International School of Hydraulics 2022-2023
• International Scientific Committee member: 40th IAHR World Congress 2023
• Kalinowska M.B., Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M. (Eds.), 2020: Recent Trends in Environmental Hydraulics; Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Springer
• Kalinowska M.B., Mrokowska M.M., Rowiński P.M. (Eds.), 2018: Free Surface Flows and Transport Processes; Series: GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences; Springer
• Chair of Scientific Committee: XVIII International School of Hydraulics, 2019
• Scientific International Committee member: Symposium and Exhibition on Hydro-Environment Sensors and Software 2019

Research Grants

• Principal investigator of the research project funded by National Science Centre, (2019/35/D/ST10/01135):  Experimental studies on the effects of exopolymers on the settling dynamics and interactions between solid particles in density-stratified aquatic systems (2020-2024)
• Principal investigator of  IG PAS Young Researchers Grant: Experimental studies on the impact of density gradient in a liquid column on the settling dynamics of non-spherical particles (2018-2020)
• Principal investigator of Young Researchers Grant of IG PAS: Physical modeling of particles settling in density stratified fluid (2016 - 2017)
• Principal investigator of Young Researchers Grant of IG PAS: Setting up laboratory hydraulic channel - construction and preliminary research (2014 - 2016)
• Principal investigator of the research project funded by National Science Centre, (2011/01/N/ST10/07395):  Resistance to flow under flood conditions (2011- 2015)
• Researcher – team member. Project Iuventus Plus funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, (028772): The analysis of two-dimensional warm water transport in flowing surface waters (2014 - 2016)

Teaching and student supervision

• 2021 - present - auxiliary supervisor of PhD on the incipient motion of microplastics in open channel
• 2022-2023 - supervision of MSc student (Warsaw University of Technology - WUT) to conduct research on rheological proerties of aqueous solutions of polysaccharides and their impact on microplastics settling dynamics and BSc student (WUT) to conduct research on kinetics of viscoelastic microgels formation in aqueous solutions of polysaccharides

• 2021-2022 - supervision of MSc student (WUT) to conduct research on the the impact of aggregation of exopolymers in aqueous solutions on particles settling dynamics and BSc student (WUT) to conduct research on gellation process of aqueous exopolymer solutions

• 2020-2021 - supervision of MSc student (WUT) to conduct research on rheological properties of exopolymers and their impact on settling dynamics of solid particles

• 2019-2020 - supervision of BSc student (WUT) to conduct research on viscoelastic properties of microgels in aqueous solutions of polysaccharides

Employment

Institute of Geophysics PAS

• Associate Professor, 2022 - present
• Assistant Professor, 2014 - 2022
• Research Assistant, 2011-2014
• Head of Hydrodynamic Models Laboratory, 2017 - present

Awards

• Professor Kacper Rafał Rybicki Scholarship for outstanding basic research in Earth Sciences, geophysics, 2018
• Award of Director of Institute of Geophysics for outstanding publication record in 2018
• Award of Director of Institute of Geophysics for outstanding publication record in 2015
• Award of the Scientific Board of Institute of Geophysics PAS for outstanding PhD thesis