Sławomir Dresler

Professor Sławomir Dresler is a faculty member at the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska (UMCS), Poland. He works in the Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, focusing on environmental stress impacts on plants and analytical chemistry methodologies.

His research interests include:

• Heavy metal toxicity and plant adaptation
• Antioxidant responses in metal-stressed organisms
• Development of electrophoretic and spectroscopic analytical methods
• Chemometric profiling of plant populations
• Phytochemical analysis of medicinal species

Recent publications highlight his work on:

• Metal-induced oxidative stress mechanisms in lichens and plants
• Capillary electrophoresis for coumarin and furanocoumarin analysis
• Development of modified sorbents for plant sample extraction
• Comparative studies of metallicolous vs. nonmetallicolous plant populations
• Physiological responses to selenium biofortification and heavy metal exposure

His work spans environmental science, analytical chemistry, and plant physiology, emphasizing chemometric approaches and stress biomarker identification.