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…
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…
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,…