Email: joanna.pieczynska-kozlowska@pwr.edu.pl

Unit: Faculty of Civil Engineering » Department of Geotechnology, Hydro Technology, and Underground and Hydro Engineering

Assistant Professor at the Department of Geotechnical, Hydraulic, Underground and Water Engineering.

She graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD in technical sciences in civil engineering in 2013, defending with honours her dissertation entitled "Random finite element method analysis in strip foundation bearing capacity problems".

Her research interests include developing and implementing probabilistic methods for geotechnical engineering with particular emphasis on modelling soils with spatially variable characteristics. She is a member of a research team focusing on reliability analysis and risk assessment of soil-structure interactions. She is currently solving a problem related to soil modelling based on the estimated variation of strength parameters with depth. The first part of the project deals with transforming CPT sounding signals to obtain strength parameters. The second - is the computational side of the bearing capacity of shallow foundations under drained and undrained soil conditions.

In 2016 she was on a foreign internship at the Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio", in Chieti Pescara, Italy, resulting in a close scientific collaboration with Prof. Giovanna Vessia.

She has been teaching for over 10 years. Her primary teaching area is geomechanics and soil structures, i.e. Soil Mechanics, Foundation and Foundation - Selected Issues. She also teaches a course in Linear Algebra with Analytic Geometry on part-time undergraduate courses. Since 2019 she has been involved in the Advanced Solid Mechanics course and the STRAINS teaching project implemented with a grant funded by the European Commission under the Erasum Mundus Joint Master Degree programme. The project actively cooperates with 6 research and teaching centres in Europe, including the University of Lille and École centrale de Lille, France; the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; the National Technical University of Athens, Greece; and the University of Calabria, Italy. At the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Wrocław University of Science and Technology, she is the Coordinator of this project.

She has repeatedly been awarded her organizational activities for the University by JM Rector of PWr (2013, 2016, 2017, 2021). For the term 2021 - 2024, the Dean of the Faculty of BLiW appointed the Dean's Representative for the Faculty Promotion.

Since 2011 she has been associated with the editorial board of Studia Geotechnica et Mechanika, where she serves as Secretary.

This year, the Polish Committee of Geotechnics was recommended as a national representative in the Technical Committee TC205 Safety and Serviceability Committee.

Moreover, she coordinated the organizing team of the international conference MACHINE LEARNING & RISK ASSESSMENT IN GEOENGINEERING - MLRA2021, which took place in October 2021 at the Wrocław University of Technology as a hybrid.

More information might be found on my ResearchGate profile

pl. Grunwaldzki 9, Wrocław
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phone. 71 320 2841

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List of publications

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1	Article 2023 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Marcin Chwała, Wojciech Puła, Worst-case effect in bearing capacity of spread foundations considering safety factors and anisotropy in soil spatial variability. Georisk - Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards. 2023, vol. 17, nr 2, s. 330-345. ISSN: 1749-9518 Resources:DOIURLSFX
2	Article 2022 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Giovanna Vessia, Spatially variable soils affecting geotechnical strip foundation design. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. 2022, vol. 14, nr 3, s. 886-895. ISSN: 1674-7755; 2589-0417 Resources:DOIURLSFX
3	Article 2021 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Irena Bagińska, Marek Kawa, The identification of the uncertainty in soil strength parameters based on CPTu measurements and random fields. Sensors. 2021, vol. 21, nr 16, art. 5393, s. 1-22. ISSN: 1424-8220 Resources:DOIURLSFX
4	Proceeding paper 2019 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Giovanna Vessia, An application of the kriging technique to support the geotechnical designing of foundations based on CPTs in PO Plain alluvial deposits. W: State-of-the-practice in geotechnical safety and risk : 7th International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Risk (ISGSR 2019), 11-13 December 2019, Taipei, Taiwan : proceedings / eds. Jianye Ching, Dian-Qing Li and Jie Zhang. Singapore : Research Publishing, cop. 2019. s. 303-308. ISBN: 978-981-11-2725-0 Resources:URL
5	Proceeding paper 2017 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Wojciech Puła, Giovanna Vessia, A collection of fluctuation scale values and autocorrelation functions of fine deposits in Emilia Romagna plain, Italy. W: Geo-Risk 2017 : impact of spatial variability, probabilistic site characterization, and geohazards, Denver, Colorado, June 4-7, 2017 / eds. Jinsong Huang [i in.]. Reston : American Society of Civil Engineers, cop. 2017. s. 290-299. ISBN: 978-0-7844-8071-7 Resources:DOISFX
6	Proceeding paper 2017 Wojciech Puła, Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Marcin Chwała, Search for the worst-case correlation length in the bearing capacity probability of failure analyses. W: Geo-Risk 2017 : reliability-based design and code developments, Denver, Colorado, June 4-7, 2017 / eds. Jinsong Huang [i in.]. Reston : American Society of Civil Engineers, cop. 2017. s. 534-544. ISBN: 978-0-7844-8070-0 Resources:DOISFX
7	Proceeding paper 2017 Wojciech Puła, Irena Bagińska, Marek Kawa, Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Estimation of spatial variability of soil properties using CPTu results: a case study. W: In situ and laboratory characterisation of OC subsoil : [6th International workshop, Poznań, Poland, June 26-27, 2017] / eds. Zbigniew Młynarek and Jędrzej Wierzbicki. Poznań : Wydawnictwo Exemplum, 2017. s. 23-32. ISBN: 978-83-62690-31-2
8	Article 2015 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Comparison between two methods for estimating the vertical scale of fluctuation for modeling random geotechnical problems. Studia Geotechnica et Mechanica. 2015, vol. 37, nr 4, s. 95-103. ISSN: 0137-6365; 2083-831X Resources:DOIURLSFX
9	Article 2015 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Wojciech Puła, Influence of embedment, self-weight and anisotropy on bearing capacity reliability using the random finite element method. Computers and Geotechnics. 2015, vol. 67, s. 229-238. ISSN: 0266-352X Resources:DOISFX
10	Article 2009 Joanna Pieczyńska-Kozłowska, Jarosław Rybak, Prospects for active design expansion owing to investigation of vibrations caused by geotechnical works = Perspektywy rozwoju aktywnego projektowania w oparciu o badania drgań w trakcie prowadzenia robót geotechnicznych. Wiadomości Konserwatorskie. 2009, nr 26, s. 481-491. ISSN: 0860-2395 Resources:URL