Ela secured funding for a 1-Month Research Visit from NAWA/STER iWARSAW4PhD project for 2022-2024. The competition was aimed at students of the 4th to 6th semester of the Warsaw-4-PhD school who, during their PhD studies, have authored an article published or accepted for publication in a JCR-indexed scientific journal.Ela chose the Mackenzie Institute for Research…
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…
At the end of November, Emilia had the chance to visit Prof. Martin Witt and give a talk to the group of Prof. Thomas Humell, both working at the Interdisciplinary Center “Smell & Taste”, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden. The institute is a reference centre for the EU on smell and taste.Emilia had…
Emilia was invited to the 11th International Workshop on Surface Modification for Chemical and Biochemical Sensing to give a keynote talk entitled “Simple systems for electrochemical ion sensing”. The conference was held in Łochów, Poland, between the 3rd and 7th of November 2023. Apart from the standard scientific presentations, the conference was rich in tutorial…
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,…
On the 11th of October, Emilia organized a debate to discuss different paths of scientists’ development. The main goal was to demonstrate that apart from being a lab head drowned in paperwork or a specialist working with a pipette, a scientist can do other things. Emilia organized a similar event five years ago. At that…
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…