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Przemysław Charzyński

Przemysław Charzyński (born 1973) is a soil scientist and geographer in the Department of Soil Science and Landscape Ecology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. He joined Academia in 1999. He holds a PhD in Earth Sciences (2006), awarded for his dissertation Study on the adaptation of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources to the soil cover of Poland, and obtained his habilitation degree in 2016 based on the monograph The problem of classification of technogenic soils in the context of their heterogeneity. His research spans several complementary areas:

  • soil genesis and classification, particularly the taxonomy and properties of technogenic soils (SUITMAs—Soils of Urban, Industrial, Traffic, Mining and Military Areas);
  • soil and environmental education, including translation of scientific classifications for broader audiences;
  • geography education, and
  • cultural tourism, with a focused on eno-, biro-, and food tourism.

He is also active in academic service as Erasmus+ Faculty Coordinator at His Faculty at NCU, facilitating international academic mobility and institutional cooperation.

Prof. Charzyński has long-standing involvement in professional scientific organizations. Since 2009, he has been an active member of the Commission on Soil Genesis, Classification and Cartography of the Polish Soil Science Society. He currently serves as Chairman of the Soil Education Committee within the Polish Society. Internationally, he has been the Vice-Chairman (2017–ongoing) of the IUSS SUITMA WG/Commission, contributing to global initiatives related to the understanding and management of technogenic soils.

He invented and coordinated several soil related educational Erasmus+ projects: LIFES, FACES and now ongoing SYStem and initiated also WRB educational workshops. He co-translated all editions of World Reference Base for Soil Resources  into Polish. He is also Chairman of the Regional Committee of the Geographical Olympic Games and His initiative led to the introduction of a strictly soil science topics for the first time in the more than half century history of the competition.