Anita Bernatek-Jakiel

(Poland)

Co-opted Member – Young Geomorphologists Training Programmes

2022-2026

Anita Bernatek-Jakiel is an assistant professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management at Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). She obtained her undergraduate degree in Earth Sciences and Cultural Studies (Culture of Mediterranean countries), also at Jagiellonian University. She worked as an environmental expert in projects commissioned by the WWF Poland, the World Bank, and for national parks in Poland. Meanwhile she prepared her PhD thesis on soil piping in the Bieszczady Mts. (Poland), which she defended in 2017 and then she fully devoted to a scientific path. Her research interests focus on soil erosion and its significance as a morphogenetic process. She mainly explores subsurface soil erosion (i.e., soil piping) as it is one of the most overlooked soil erosion processes. She aims to recognize the activity of soil piping in different morphoclimatic zones, to evaluate its influence on landscape evolution, including relationships with gully erosion and to understand the mechanism of this proces. She explores different methods to study soil erosion, including geophysical, pedological and GIS techniques. She does research in the mid-altitude mountains in temperate zone (Poland), and in semi-arid regions in Spain and Iran. Over last years she spent several months abroad on the internships at KU Leuven (Belgium), University of Zaragoza (Spain), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Charles University in Prague (Czechia), University of Zagreb (Croatia), and University of Pécs (Hungary). She is a member of the Association of Polish Geomorphologists, European Geosciences Union (EGU), IAG Badlands Working Group and the European Soil Observatory (EUSO) Technical Working Group on Soil Erosion. In 2022 she was awarded the IAG Early Career Medal. She leads the group of Young Geomorphologists in Poland. She is on the Advisory Board of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. She has already published 16 peer-reviewed papers in international journals indexed in Web of Science.

Contact:
Dr. Anita Bernatek-Jakiel
Institute of Geography and Spatial Management
Jagiellonian University
ul. Gronostajowa 7
30-387 Kraków
POLAND
Email address: anita.bernatek<at>uj.edu.pl