Date and place of birth:

• 01st of December 1988 in Poznań.

Professional employment:

• Since October of 2017: assistant profesor in Department of Soil Science and Land Protection, Poznan University of Life Science;
• 10.2016 – 09.2017: assistant in Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

Education:

• 2012-2016 – PhD studies (earth sciences, geography) at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; PhD thesis: The influence of anthropopressure on the evolution of the soil layer in and around former millpond basins in Chełmno land – thesis defended in June of 2017;
• 2010-2012 – Second-cycle - master studies (geography, specialization of physical geography and geoinformation) at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; master thesis: The evolution of soils as a result of the disappearance of lakes in the Brodnica Lakeland in the light of pedological investigation and interpretation of aerial photographs;
• 2007-2010 – First-cycle studies (geography) at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń;

Research interests:

• Anthropogenic impact on the soil cover evolution in the catchment of disappearing water bodies.
• Soil cover evolution at the location of the former mill pond basins.
• Genesis and classification on soils developed from limnogenic materials.
• Impact of Influence of long-term grain and alfalfa monocultures on the quantity and quality of humic substances in soils developed in post-mining area.

(full list available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukasz_Mendyk)

• Mendyk, Ł., Hulisz, P., Świtoniak, M., Kalisz, B., Spychalski, W. (2020). Human activity in the surroundings of a former mill pond (Turznice, N Poland): implications for soil classification and environmental hazard assessment. Soil Science Annual 71(4), 371-381.
• Kabała, C., Charzyński, P., Chodorowski, J., Drewnik, M.,  Glina, B., Greinert, A., Hulisz, P., Jankowski, M., Jonczak, J., Łabaz, B., Łachacz, A., Marzec, M., Mazurek, R., Mendyk, Ł., Musiał, P., Musielok, Ł., Smreczak, B., Sowiński, P., Świtoniak M., Uzarowicz, Ł., Waroszewski, J. (2019). Systematyka gleb Polski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego, Instytut Nauk o Glebie i Ochrony Środowiska Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego; Polskie Towarzystwo Gleboznawcze. Komisja Genezy, Klasyfikacji i Kartografii Gleb, Wrocław – Warszawa, ss. 292.
• Kabała, C., Charzyński, P., Chodorowski, J., Drewnik, M.,  Glina, B., Greinert, A., Hulisz, P., Jankowski, M., Jonczak, J., Łabaz, B., Łachacz, A., Marzec, M., Mendyk, Ł., Musiał, P., Musielok, Ł., Smreczak, B., Sowiński, P., Świtoniak M., Uzarowicz, Ł., Waroszewski, J. (2019). Polish Soil Classification, –principles, classification scheme and correlations. Soil Science Annual, 70(2), 71-97.
• Glina, B., Piernik, A., Hulisz, P., Mendyk, Ł., Tomaszewska, K., Podlaska, M., Bogacz, A. & Spychalski, W. (2019). Water or soil—What is the dominant driver controlling the vegetation pattern of degraded shallow mountain peatlands?. Land Degradation & Development, 30(12), 1437-1448.
• Glina, B., Gajewski, P., Mendyk, Ł., Zawieja, B., & Kaczmarek, Z. (2019). Recent changes in soil properties and carbon stocks in fen peatlands adjacent to open‐pit lignite mines. Land Degradation & Development, 30(18), 2371-2380.
• Šimanský, V., Juriga, M., & Mendyk, Ł. (2019). Slope position and management practices as factors influencing selected properties of topsoil. Soil Science Annual, 70(2), 137-146.

• Świtoniak, M., Kabała, C., Karklins, A., Charzyńsk,i P., Hulisz, P., Mendyk, Ł., Michalski, A., Novak, T.J., Penizek, V., Reintam, E., Repe, B., Saksa, M., Vaisvalavicius, R., Waroszewski, J. (2018). Guidelines for soil description and classification Central and Eastern European. Students' version (Red. Marcin Świtoniak, Cezary Kabała, Aldis Karklins, Przemysław Charzyński). Polskie Towarzystwo Gleboznawcze. Toruń, ss. 286.
• Glina, B., Bogacz, A., Mendyk, Ł., Bojko, O., & Nowak, M. (2018). Effectiveness of restoration of a degraded shallow mountain fen after five years. Mires and Peat, 21(11), 1-15.
• Bojko, O., Kabala, C., Mendyk, Ł., Markiewicz, M., Pagacz-Kostrzewa, M., & Glina, B. (2017). Labile and stabile soil organic carbon fractions in surface horizons of mountain soils–relationships with vegetation and altitude. Journal of Mountain Science, 14(12), 2391-2405.
• Markiewicz, M., Gonet, S. S., Marszelewski, W., Mendyk, Ł., & Sykuła, M. (2017). Differentiation of soils and land use changes in the vicinity of the disappeared Gardeja lake (Northern Poland). Soil Science Annual, 68(3), 115-124.
• Mendyk, Ł., Hulisz, P., Kusza, G., Świtoniak, M., Gersztyn, L., & Kalisz, B. (2016). Sediment origin and pedogenesis in the former mill pond basin of Turznice (north-central Poland) based on magnetic susceptibility measurements. Bulletin of Geography. Physical Geography Series, 11(1), 55-69.
• Mendyk, Ł., Markiewicz, M., Bednarek, R., Świtoniak, M., Gamrat, W. W., Krześlak, I., Sykuła, M., Gersztyn, L., Kupniewska, A. (2016). Environmental changes of a shallow kettle lake catchment in a young glacial landscape (Sumowskie Lake catchment), North-Central Poland. Quaternary International, 418, 116-131.

• Mendyk, Ł., Świtoniak, M., Bednarek, R., & Falkowski, A. (2015). Genesis and classification of the soils developed from the sediments of the former Oleszek mill pond basin (the Chełmińskie Lakeland, N Poland)/Geneza i pozycja systematyczna gleb wykształconych z osadów niecki dawnego stawu młyńskiego Oleszek (Pojezierze Chełmińskie). Soil Science Annual, 66(1), 29-35.

• Mendyk, Ł., & Sykuła, M. (2015). Spatial variability of actual soil moisture, pH and bulk soil electrical conductivity within the area of the former Oleszek mill pond basin. Polish Journal of Soil Science, 47(1), 17.

Research and didactical projects:

• 2019-2022 - Project Share Your Soils  - SYStem (ERASMUS+ Programme STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS 2019-1-PL01-KA203-065101).  The idea of the SYStem project is to create edutainment social media dedicated to soil description and classification using the WRB. It will be based on mobile application for uploading soil profile photos with description of soil horizons, materials and properties along with its coordinates and students (users) proposal for the soil classification. The consortium brings together specialists from 11 Institutions from 8 countries (Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and Spain) having research and educational experience in soil science issues of different regions of Europe. Individual members of the consortium also participated in a number of works related to the adaptation of the WRB in regional research (national scale), as well as international (testing WRB for improvement of next editions) and its use in the context of learning and teaching at the higher education level (local coordinator).
• 2014-2015 – Research project in the frame of the PhD thesis in cooperation with QUERCUS – BIURO USŁUG EKOLOGICZNYCH I LEŚNYCH. The research was co-financed in the frame of the “Krok w przyszłość” scholarship program which is implemented by the Department of Education and Sport of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship Marshalls and co-funded by the European Union from the European Social Fund under the Sub-measure 8.2.2 of the Human Capital Operational Programme 2007e2013.kierownik/wykonawca.
• 2013-2012 - Validation of the Central European Soil Database [Visegrad Strategic Program (Strategic Grant No. 31210072] (researcher).
• Two NCU research grants related to the PhD thesis: Grant UMK 1908-G (rok 2014) oraz 1697-G (rok 2013) (key investigator).

Editorial advisory board member:

• Soil Science Annual - od roku 2019.