Em. Prof. Jan Glinski is a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As the Director of the Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin during 1982 to 2003, he was the initiator and active promoter of scientific cooperation with many universities and institutes in Poland and abroad and organizer of international conferences on agrophysics. A member of the ISSS (since 1961) and vice-chairman of the Commission I (Soil Physics) of the ISSS (1986-1990) Glinski served as author or co-author of over 300 papers, 2 books (1985 and 1990), 26 monographs, 18 patents and 7 multilingual dictionaries of agrophysics. He specializes in searching for soil erosion processes, soil chemistry, soil aeration and its role in agriculture and environmental protection, as well as soil-root interactions. He has been an active participant of 8 World ISSS Congresses (1960, 1964, 1974, 1978, 1986, 1990, 1994, and 1998) and served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal International Agrophysics (since 1992).