At the beginning of December, Emilia and other group leaders from the IPC PAS visited the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena. The bus trip was organized to foster collaboration between the institutes and provide a chance to pursue EU funding together. With so many scientists from both institutes presenting, the talks were divided…
The new group deserves a new tradition. As Emilia still fondly remembers her high school years in the art school, she decided to ask her friend and now a known portrait artist Marlena Kruk to prepare portraits of the group members. Upon leaving the group, each person will receive their drawing, and till then, it…
The ML in PL conference is Poland’s biggest scientific event on machine learning research and applications, organized yearly in Warsaw. This year’s event was held from the 26th to the 29th of October at Copernicus Science Centre and two Warsaw universities. Emilia and Wojtek had the chance to hear about programming autonomous robots to tackle…
Emilia was invited to participate in “Kobiety w Nauce wczoraj i dziś” conference, which was held on the 18th of October in the Pinokio Theater in Łódź. Apart from scientific presentations, the conference included several discussion panels. One covered the impact of new technologies on how we can experience the world, including the possibilities of…
After the last adventures on kayaks, we have promised to do something less extreme, and here we are on a quiet evening in a pizza place. We were joined by some friends previously associated with the institute and the Department of Electrode Processes. The event was a chance to commemorate Steven’s publication, Karthika’s publication (however,…
This summer, we had two interns from the Warsaw University of Technology. You can find more about Julia’s work with Ela on potentiometric sensors here. Now we want to present Weronika Góral, a 3rd-year Faculty of Chemistry, WUT student who, during her internship, worked with Martyna on using oils as an organic phase for ion-transfer…
Congratulations to Emilia, who recently won the “Young Researchers IPC PAS” competition. The competition is judged in two categories: Ph.D. students and “young” research workers of the IPC PAS with a Ph.D. degree. A short list of candidates is created based on recent publications. This year, 10 winners were chosen in each category. Congratulations to…
Karthika’s publication, “Fabrication of ITO microelectrodes and electrode arrays using low-cost CO2 laser plotter,” has been recently accepted in Lab on a Chip. The article shows a cost-effective method based on CO2 laser plotter irradiation for preparing ITO microelectrodes. The work was supposed to be a side project but grew and grew till it became…
In July we had a short-term group member from the Warsaw University of Technology. Julia Wojnowska, a 3rd-year student of the Faculty of Chemistry, worked with Elżbieta on the characterization and application of low-cost ion-selective electrodes.They prepared sensor calibration curves based on two potassium-selective ionophores and performed selectivity studies. Ultimately, they constructed an array of…
Some time ago, prof. Jakub Szlachetko visited IChF to advertise the new synchrotron that was built in Krakow. Solaris was opened for users in 2018, and from that time onwards, it is getting a steadily growing influx of users. The seminar was just a prelude, as both institutes want to tighten collaboration and get more…