Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł is Assistant Professor in the Biogeochemistry Unit Research at the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is an environmental geochemist, interested in the impact of human activities on the release, transport, and deposition of elements in different compartments of the earth, especially peatlands, and strives to explain observed changes in a holistic way, considering local, regional, and global variables. Her research proves the utility of peatlands as valuable records of anthropogenic signals. Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł is currently a leader of the EARTH-Anthropocene project, where, together with her co-authors, she is investigating sources and patterns of deposition of long range transported chemical and mineralogical markers using peatlands located in the Northern Hemisphere. She is also co-principal investigator of IGSP 732 (International Geoscience Programme): LANGUAGE of the Anthropocene (Lessons in anthropogenic impact: a knowledge network of geological signals to unite and assess global evidence of the Anthropocene).