Scietific interests:

determination of nonionic surfactants, pharmaceutical residues in surface waters and sewage,

determination of bioactive compounds in plant material,

research on the removal of environmental pollutants through biodegradation, chemical degradation, photodegradation and adsorption,

practical applications of liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry for the detection and determination of chemical compounds in real samples and selenium speciation.

Selected publications:

Zembrzuska, J., Matusiewicz, H., Polkowska-Motrenko, H., Chajduk, E. (2014). Simultaneous quantitation and identification of organic and inorganic selenium in diet supplements by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. Food Chemistry, 142, 178-187.

Wieszczycka, K., Zembrzuska, J. (2015). Photodegradation of Hydrophobic Pyridineketoximes in Toluene and Heptane. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 91, 786-796.

Zembrzuska, J., Budnik, I., Łukaszewski, Z. (2016). Monitoring of selected non-ionic surfactant ‘finger prints‘ in river water by liquid chromatography-multistage mass spectromety. Journal of Environmental Managment, 169, 247-252.

Cybulska, I., Brudecki, G.P., Zembrzuska, J., Schmidt, J.E., Garcia-Banos Lopez, C., Thomsen, M.H. (2017). Organosolv delignification of agricultural residues (date palm fronds, Phoenix dactylifera L.) of the United Arab Emirates. Applied Energy, 185, 1040-1050.

Zembrzuska, J., Karbowska, B. (2017). Identyfication of complexes involving thallium(I) and thallium(III) with EDTA and DTPA ligands by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31, 1785-1792.

Żółtowska-Aksamitowska, S., Bartczak, P., Zembrzuska, J., Jesionowski, T. (2018). Removal of hazardous non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from aqueous solutions by biosorbent based on chitin and lignin. Science of the Total Environment, 612, 1223-1233.