We know this year's winner of the Professor Wacław Szybalski Award of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the best scientific publication of 2024. The winner is dr hab. Karolina Pierzynowska, prof. UG from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Gdańsk. The Committee recognised her research on correcting the symptoms of Huntington's disease. Congratulations…

Nearly 90 ornithologists will meet this weekend in Jastarnia to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Operation Baltic Migratory Bird Research and Monitoring Programme and discuss the future of the project. Operation Baltic is the longest-running citizen science project in Poland and one of the oldest of its kind in the world. The first observation…

We present the profile of another winner of the National Science Centre's OPUS 29 competition: prof. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska from the Faculty of Chemistry, whose project ‘New surface-supported metal-organic framework thin films (SURMOFs) for molecules capturing and photoconversion’ received funding in the amount of PLN 3,299,920. Professor Adriana Zaleska-Medynska…

Eight scientists from the University of Gdańsk (six women among them) have won the National Science Centre's OPUS 29 grants. Today, we present the profile of dr hab. Mariusz Grinholc, prof. UG from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG, whose project ‘Photodynamic inactivation as a broad-spectrum antibiotic adjuvant reversing multidrug-resistant Gram-negative critical priority pathogens’ received…

Individual divisions of the Polish Academy of Sciences have awarded prizes for outstanding achievements and creative research work. Among the winners are researchers from the University of Gdańsk! Division III: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences recognised the achievements of dr hab. Thomas Zlosnik from the Institute of Theoretical…

Solidarity in diversity - interview with prof. Stijn Oosterlynck Can we build solidarity in diverse communities? How to find or create crucial factors that make people feel they have something in common? Can solidarity be influenced by spatial design? What inspirations came from the city of Gdańsk? These and other aspects of solidarity in diversity…

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has announced the first results of the Vectors of Science programme, which aims to subsidise conferences and scientific monographs. The University of Gdańsk received three grants (two in the Conferences module and one in the Monographs module) for a total amount of over PLN 185,000. The main objective of the…

The second edition of the Rector's Joanna Schopenhauer Award is now open. The award is given to female researchers from the University of Gdańsk who take into account the gender perspective of their research for the highest-rated achievement that forms the basis for the award of the title of professor. Applications for the competition can be submitted until 15 December this year…

The European University Institute (EUI) in Florence is now accepting applications for four-year doctoral studies. This unique international research institution, bringing together 23 European Union member states, offers four programmes leading to a doctoral degree in the following fields: Economics, Law, History and Civilisation, Political and Social…

A passion for chemistry can captivate crowds! The Scientific Circle of Chemists at the University of Gdańsk won first place in the plebiscite for the best scientific circle during this year's edition of ScienceCom. ScienceCom, organised by the Experyment Science Centre in Gdynia, is an event created for young researchers and science enthusiasts. For…