I am currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN), where my research focuses on monitoring and modelling water quality in aquatic systems using optical and remote sensing methods. My broader research interests include aquatic optics, bio-optical modelling, radiative transfer, and the development of remote sensing approaches for studying phytoplankton and water quality in marine and freshwater environments.
Before joining IOPAN, I worked in the Department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where I studied changes in the underwater light field available to photosynthetic organisms. Prior to that, I spent five years at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere in Hobart, Australia, and worked in the Radar Remote Sensing Group at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
I received my PhD from the Department of Physical Oceanography at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. My doctoral research, titled Identification of the dominant phytoplankton groups in algal blooms in the waters of the Baltic Sea using remote sensing methods, focused on the application of optical remote sensing to Baltic Sea waters. The interdisciplinary project combined aquatic optical theory, radiative transfer modelling, remote sensing, and marine biology to investigate phytoplankton blooms and their composition.
- name: Monika Soja-Woźniak
- date and place of birth: July 9th 1983, Szczecinek, Poland
- nationality: Polish & Australian
- email: monika@soja-wozniak.com
- phone: +48 571 286 881
- whatsapp: +61 43 28 29 577
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