Thanks to funding from NAWA/STER iWARSAW4PhD project for 2022-2024 during January Elżbieta visited Cecilia de Carvalho Castro e Silva’s lab in Mackenzie Institute for Research in Graphene and Nanotechnologies. Elżbieta’s work was aimed at fabrication of electrode arrays using Mackgraphe clean room facilities. Mackgraphe is renowned for its multidisciplinary installation with emphasis on nanoelectronics, microelectronics…
Together with 15 other PhD students from our institute Karthika went to the Dornburg Doctoral Seminar hosted by the Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologien in Thuringia from 18 to 21 March. Karthika was chosen for an oral presentation and talked about “Low-cost ITO microelectrodes for biosensing using Prussian blue analogues as mediators”. The presentation was well…
On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Emilia was invited to give a talk at the Liceum Ogólnokształcące Sióstr Nazaretanek w Warszawie. Meeting with the students was a great chance to reflect on her journey of becoming a scientist and to debunk the myth that everyone knows who they…
Elżbieta’s publication “Methods of Protection of Electrochemical Sensors against Biofouling in Cell Culture Applications” was recently accepted in ACS Omega. The article concerns various methods of antifouling coating for electrochemical sensors, especially applied to monitor vital culture parameters in cell cultures. The publication was featured on the main cover of the journal. The work was…
We are super happy to announce that our proposal, “Unravelling the electronic and geometric structure of metal-organic coordination polymeric materials for photo-assisted proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in energy conversion devices”, submitted to the Autumn 2023 Call at SOLARIS, has been accepted!We will work six shifts at the PIRX (Premiere InstRument for Xas) beamline to characterize…
Although we met not so long ago, we could not miss the chance to go curling. There was no fixed place to play in Warsaw this winter, but he got a heads-up from the Curling sports club about a special two-day event.There was also a good occasion as Steven is leaving, at least temporarily, the…
Emilia’s dream is coming true as she was chosen to participate in an Art&Science project organized by Swedish Radio Concert Hall Berwaldhallen. During the project, she will work with a composer, Luis Fernando Amaya, who will write a musical piece about electronic tongues! Emilia’s talk about her bellowed technology will be a part of the…
Every January, the IPC PAS organizes a Microsymposium, which serves two primary purposes: to present the past year’s research endeavours and stimulate academic discourse among the institute’s diverse groups, teams, and labs. The speakers, carefully selected from young researchers, both pre-and post-PhD, should have demonstrated excellence through their published work in the preceding year, either…
Dr Nako Nakatsuka from the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, visited the institute on the 26th of October, giving a talk in the Advanced Lecture on Bio-inspired Chemistry series of the Doctoral School. After the talk, she visited a few labs, including ours. This allowed us to exchange ideas, and Dr Nakatsuka was…
On the 15th of December, we met in a Musketeers-themed Escape Room (which we Nailed!) for a bit on integration and later went for a round of preXmas board games in a geek-friendly restaurant, Jaś i Małgosia. The meeting was also a chance to say farewell to Viktorija Reinikovaite, an Erasmus PhD student working in…