Edyta Hewelke is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland. The main scientific area of interest concerns environmental protection and engineering issues. Her scientific research focuses on the sustainable management of natural resources, including the physical properties of soils, soil protection, sustainable use of soils, and nature-based solutions to improve the quality of the soil environment of the climatic and anthropogenic environmental threats. The issues of her research work concern the following areas: hydrophobic properties of soils, functions of pedotransfers as indirect methods of determining the retention characteristics of soils, improvement of research methods for hydro-physical properties of soils, fires as a threat to the balance of environmental processes, possibilities of carbon sequestration in agricultural soils in the era of changing climate. She implements educational issues for sustainable development and environmental management.