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…
Curling winter integration and Steven’s farewell
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 chosen for the Baltic Sea Festival Science Lab
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…
Karthika’s talk and Elżbieta’s poster on the Microsymposium
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…
Martyna, Steven and Emilia visiting Dr Nako Nakatsuka in ETH
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…
Group integration and farewell party for Viktorija
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…
Elżbieta wins a scholarship to visit Mackenzie Institute for Research in Graphene and Nanotechnologies
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…
Emilia visiting Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena together with delegation from the IPC PAS
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…
Group logo -collaboration with artist -Marlena Kruk
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…
Emilia’s invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Center “Smell & Taste”,University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden
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…