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First Polish?French Science Award announced

19.11.2019
"Dr Marcin Szwed and Prof. Laurent Cohen, as well as Prof. Jakub Zakrzewski and Dr Dominique Delande, have been honoured with the first Maria Skłodowska and Pierre Curie Polish?French Science Award. The award is given for outstanding scientific achievements resulting from cooperation between...

I am like a proton

15.11.2019
"A profile of dr Irena Dapic, head of the laboratory at the International Research Agenda ?International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science? in Gdańsk. Dr Irena Dapic is Croatian. At school, she was serious about becoming a doctor. Ultimately, however, she decided to study chemistry at the...

2019 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes awarded

06.11.2019
"For the 28th time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the Foundation for Polish Science Prizes, which enjoy the reputation of the most important scientific honours in Poland. The laureates are three distinguished scholars: Prof. Marcin Drąg, Prof. Andrzej Kossakowski and Prof....

Call for FNP experts ? the 19th round

31.10.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

Ultracold caesium and potassium atoms in a trap for the first time in Poland

11.10.2019
"A group of PhD students from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw led by dr Mariusz Semczuk, winner of the competition held under the HOMING programme of the Foundation for Polish Science has obtained ultracold caesium and potassium atoms, the first such atoms in Poland. This is an...

Polish scientists push back the boundaries of live brain imaging

10.10.2019
"Polish physicists and neuroscientists are joining forces to develop a miniature, biocompatible imaging system based on optical-fibre microlenses, which can be inserted into the deeper structures of the brain, such as the amygdala, of experimental animals. This will allow the real-time monitoring...

The ENSEMBLE3 project has been launched

04.10.2019
"The European Research and Innovation Days, held in late September in Brussels, featured the symbolic inauguration of the ENSEMBLE3 project. The project's coordinator is Dorota A. Pawlak, a winner of a number of FNP competitions. The goal of the ENSEMBLE3 project is to create a Centre of...

How smog affects children?s brains

03.10.2019
"Polish scientists in the NeuroSmog consortium plan to study hundreds of children to determine how smog impacts their developing brains. They have received over PLN 15 million for this research from the Foundation for Polish Science under the TEAM-NET programme. The work will be conducted by...

START 2020 recruitment launched

17.09.2019
"From today, 17 September 2019, through the end of October, young researchers can file applications for stipends in the START programme (2020 competition). The START stipend is a distinction for the most talented young researchers awarded in recognition of their scientific accomplishments....

In search of new sources of terahertz radiation

12.09.2019
"Terahertz radiation, invisible to the human eye, can be placed in the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared radiation and microwaves. It is often called the ?the forgotten band?, or ?the Terahertz gap.? This is because we still have not found the way to use it in practice, although in...

Call for FNP experts ? the 18th round

29.08.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) is announcing a call for expert candidates as part of the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014-2020 under Measure 4.4 ?Increasing the human potential in the R&D sector? as part of which it fulfils the role of the Implementing...

Phantoms to aid radiation therapy

26.08.2019
"How to make radiation therapy more accurate and effective in cancer treatment? Researchers and doctors have joined forces to create a medical phantom for precise dose planning in radiation therapy. The device will enable adjusting both the dose and the angle of the radiation beam to the needs of...

Poland, here I come!

22.08.2019
"They?re foreigners and they come to Poland especially to work in science. Or they are Poles who have lived abroad for a long time but choose to return home for the next stage in their scientific career. What are their reasons? What are they involved in? How is it to work here? What do you like...

A project by a Foundation for Polish Science?s laureate awarded a prestigious EIC grant and distinguished in a competition organised by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry

21.08.2019
"Co-founded by one of FNP?s laureates, prof. Piotr Garstecki, the company received a grant of EUR 1.9 million for further research on the innovative BacterOMIC system designed to support faster and cheaper diagnostics of bacterial infections, which is particularly important in difficult infections...

Polish?French Scientific Award: Now accepting nominations

20.08.2019
"The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI), in cooperation with the French Academy of Sciences, invite the submission of nominations for the first competition for the Maria Skłodowska and Pierre Curie Polish?French...

Dr Filip Taterka: The puzzles of an Egyptologist

14.08.2019
"It might seem that a researcher of the temple of Hatshepsut and translator of tales written in a mysterious script would have to be a pretty busy person. But the mystery of the space-time inhabited by Filip Taterka, a 2019 laureate of the START programme of the Foundation for Polish Science,...

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