Dr. Marcin Spychała is an assistant professor in the Department of Water and Sanitary Engineering, University of Life Sciences, in Poznań. His doctoral studies were at the Faculty of Agriculture and his research was carried out in the Department of Water Engineering of the Agricultural University of August Cieszkowski in Poznan. In 2003, he obtained a doctorate in agricultural sciences in the field of environmental management from the Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering of the Agricultural University of A. Cieszkowski Poznań.