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Piotr Stepnowski

Piotr Stepnowski

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Chemistry
Poland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
18376
World Ranking
4493
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Poland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Poland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Poland Leader Award

Overview

Piotr Stepnowski is affiliated with the University of Gdańsk in Poland and focuses their research primarily on environmental science and chemistry. Their work notably spans several subfields, including pollution, analytical chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, catalysis, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's main research topics cover pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, analytical chemistry methods development, properties and applications of ionic liquids, electrochemical analysis and applications, chemistry and chemical engineering, water treatment and disinfection, as well as toxic organic pollutants impact.

Stepnowski has authored multiple papers in various academic journals. Significant recent publications include:

  • Sorption of pharmaceuticals on the surface of microplastics, 2020, Chemosphere
  • How to decrease pharmaceuticals in the environment? A review, 2021, Environmental Chemistry Letters
  • Transformation products of pharmaceuticals in the environment: Their fate, (eco)toxicity and bioaccumulation potential, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Toward the Proactive Design of Sustainable Chemicals: Ionic Liquids as a Prime Example, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Advances in suspect screening and non-target analysis of polar emerging contaminants in the environmental monitoring, 2022, TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry

They frequently publish in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Molecules
  • Chemosphere
  • Microchemical Journal

Stepnowski collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Magda Caban
  • Anna Białk-Bielińska
  • Joanna Dołżonek
  • Jakub Maculewicz
  • Dorota Kowalska

Best Publications

  • Application of Spectroscopic Methods for Structural Analysis of Chitin and Chitosan

    Jolanta Kumirska;Małgorzata Czerwicka;Zbigniew Kaczyński;Anna Bychowska

  • Antibiotic resistance genes identified in wastewater treatment plant systems ─ A review

    Magdalena Pazda;Jolanta Kumirska;Piotr Stepnowski;Ewa Mulkiewicz

  • Biomedical Activity of Chitin/Chitosan Based Materials—Influence of Physicochemical Properties Apart from Molecular Weight and Degree of N-Acetylation

    Jolanta Kumirska;Mirko X. Weinhold;Jorg Thöming;Piotr Stepnowski

  • Progress in evaluation of risk potential of ionic liquids—basis for an eco-design of sustainable products

    Bernd Jastorff;Kerstin Mölter;Peter Behrend;Ulrike Bottin-Weber

  • Bioaccumulation and analytics of pharmaceutical residues in the environment: A review.

    Alan Puckowski;Katarzyna Mioduszewska;Paulina Łukaszewicz;Marta Borecka

  • Changes in lipids composition and metabolism in colorectal cancer: a review.

    Alicja Pakiet;Alicja Pakiet;Jarosław Kobiela;Piotr Stepnowski;Tomasz Sledzinski

  • Marine toxicity assessment of imidazolium ionic liquids: Acute effects on the Baltic algae Oocystis submarina and Cyclotella meneghiniana

    Adam Latała;Piotr Stepnowski;Marcin Nędzi;Wojciech Mrozik

  • Evaluating the cytotoxicity of ionic liquids using human cell line HeLa.

    P Stepnowski;A C Skladanowski;A Ludwiczak;E Laczyńska

  • Ecotoxicity evaluation of selected sulfonamides.

    Anna Białk-Bielińska;Stefan Stolte;Jürgen Arning;Ute Uebers

  • Comparison of different advanced oxidation processes for the degradation of room temperature ionic liquids

    Piotr Stepnowski;Adriana Zaleska

  • Enhanced photo-degradation of contaminants in petroleum refinery wastewater.

    P. Stepnowski;E.M. Siedlecka;P. Behrend;B. Jastorff

  • Matrix effects and recovery calculations in analyses of pharmaceuticals based on the determination of β-blockers and β-agonists in environmental samples.

    Magda Caban;Natalia Migowska;Piotr Stepnowski;Marek Kwiatkowski

  • Electrochemical degradation of sulfonamides at BDD electrode: kinetics, reaction pathway and eco-toxicity evaluation.

    Aleksandra Fabiańska;Anna Białk-Bielińska;Piotr Stepnowski;Stefan Stolte

  • Hydrolysis of sulphonamides in aqueous solutions.

    Anna Białk-Bielińska;Stefan Stolte;Marianne Matzke;Aleksandra Fabiańska

  • Adsorption of alkylimidazolium and alkylpyridinium ionic liquids onto natural soils.

    Piotr Stepnowski;Wojciech Mrozik;Joanna Nichthauser

  • Ionic liquids as lubricants or lubrication additives: An ecotoxicity and biodegradability assessment

    Stefan Stolte;Stephanie Steudte;Olatz Areitioaurtena;Francesco Pagano

  • Influence of inorganic ions on MTBE degradation by Fenton's reagent

    Ewa M. Siedlecka;Anna Więckowska;Piotr Stepnowski

  • Assessing toxicity and biodegradation of novel, environmentally benign ionic liquids (1-alkoxymethyl-3-hydroxypyridinium chloride, saccharinate and acesulfamates) on cellular and molecular level

    M. Stasiewicz;E. Mulkiewicz;R. Tomczak-Wandzel;J. Kumirska

  • Sorption of pharmaceuticals on the surface of microplastics

    Alan Puckowski;Weronika Cwięk;Katarzyna Mioduszewska;Piotr Stepnowski

  • A new approach for the estimation of expanded uncertainty of results of an analytical method developed for determining antibiotics in seawater using solid-phase extraction disks and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry technique.

    M. Borecka;A. Bialk-Bielinska;G. Siedlewicz;K. Kornowska

  • Reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method for the determination of selected room-temperature ionic liquid cations

    Piotr Stepnowski;Anja Müller;Peter Behrend;Johannes Ranke

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Stolte
Stefan Stolte TU Dresden
Bernd Jastorff
Bernd Jastorff University of Bremen
Bogusław Buszewski
Bogusław Buszewski Nicolaus Copernicus University
João A. P. Coutinho
João A. P. Coutinho University of Aveiro
Stephen J. Forsythe
Stephen J. Forsythe Nottingham Trent University
Sónia P. M. Ventura
Sónia P. M. Ventura University of Aveiro
Margarida F. Costa Gomes
Margarida F. Costa Gomes École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Anne-Marie Delort
Anne-Marie Delort University of Clermont Auvergne
Carmen Socaciu
Carmen Socaciu University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad
Piotr Szefer
Piotr Szefer Gdańsk Medical University

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