Anna Karczewska is a full professor at WUELS University, Institute of Soil Science and Environmental Protection (Wrocław, Poland). Anna graduated with a degree in environmental protection and agriculture and has a PhD in technical sciences: environmental chemistry and technology and thirty years of experience in research and teaching in environmental and agricultural sciences. Anna has scientific interest in soil pollution, the fate of contaminants in the environment, the monitoring and remediation of contaminated lands, and environmental risk assessment. Anna has been a leader of nine projects supported by the National Science Centre of Poland and a supervisor of four PhD theses on soils contaminated with heavy metals and metalloids, and is the author of over 200 research papers, three student handbooks, and ten book chapters.