Main research interest:

soil hydrophobicity, soil hydrology, forest fire, soil carbon sequestration

Short CV

Since 01.05.2007                     Research officer for the EU funded project DESIRE

(FP6-037046) (since 08/2008 at 60% FTE)

                                        Technical University of Lublin/Poland

                                        Department of Environmental Protection - Water supply and sewage system

                                        Master Thesis: 'Shrinkage and swelling of the clay soils used as a sealing                                            layer at the waste deposit' under supervision of Prof. W. Olszta i Prof. W.                                            Stepniewski

02/2002 - 07/2002                     Socrates/Erasmus Student Exchange Programme at CAU in Kiel/Germany                                                        under supervision of Prof. R. Horn

Urbanek, E., Smucker, A. & Horn, R. 2011. Total and fresh organic carbon distribution in aggregate size classes and single aggregate regions using natural 13C/12C tracer Geoderma, 164, 164-171.

Hallett, P., Bachmann, J., Czachor, H., Urbanek, E. & Zhang, B. 2011. Hydrophobicity of soil In: J. Glinski, J. Horabik, & J. Lipiec (Editors),  Encyclopedia of Agrophysics, Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, pp. 378-384.

Urbanek, E., Bodi, M., Doerr, S. & Shakesby, R. 2010. Influence of initial water content on the wettability of autoclaved soils Soil Science Society of America Journal, 74, 2086-2088.

Urbanek, E. & Shakesby, R.A. 2009. Impact of stone content on water movement in water-repellent sand. European Journal of Soil Science, 60, 412-419.

Bachmann, J., Guggenberger, G., Baumgartl, T., Ellerbrock, R.H., Urbanek, E., Goebel, M.-O., Kaiser, K., Horn, R. & Fischer, W.R. 2008. Physical carbon-sequestration mechanisms under special consideration of soil wettability Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 171, 14-26.

Urbanek, E., Hallett, P., Feeney, D. & Horn, R. 2007. Water repellency and distribution of hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds in soil aggregates from different tillage systems. Geoderma, 140, 147-155.

Urbanek, E. & Horn, R. 2006. Changes in soil organic matter, bulk density and tensile strength of aggregates after percolation in conservation and conventional tilled soils. International Agrophysics, 20, 245-255.

Jasinska, E., Wetzel, H., Baumgartl, T. & Horn, R. 2006b. Heterogeneity of physico-chemical properties in structured soils and its consequences. Pedosphere, 16, 284-296.

Jasinska, E., Hallett, P.D. & Horn, R. 2006. Spatial distribution of hydrophobic and hydrophilic compounds and repellency in aggregates. In: Soil Management for Sustainability. (eds. Horn, R., Peth, S., Fleige, H. & Peng, X.), pp. 467– 474. Catena Verlag, Reiskirchen, Germany.