Following a budget revision by the National Science Centre (NCN), Emilia’s project, “Unlocking the Potential of Ion-Transfer Voltammetry-Based Electronic Tongues for Date-Rape Drug Detection in Real Samples,” has been awarded funding under the SONATA BIS 13 call. This funding scheme, aimed at PhD holders who obtained their degrees 5-12 years before the call, is a…
Following the STER Summer School, Emilia traveled to Hungary to participate in the Matrafured Conference on Chemical Sensors from June 16 to 21, 2024. Established in 1972, this conference has a storied history spanning over half a century. Held every two to three years, the event takes place in the picturesque and relatively secluded location…
From June 10 to 14, our institute had the privilege of hosting the STER Summer School in Redox Processes, funded by the NAWA program. Each day of the workshop was dedicated to a specific topic, beginning with a tutorial lecture by an internationally renowned expert, followed by presentations from students and local specialists. This event…
From 15th to 18th of April 2024 the group had a chance to learn how to perform XAS measurements at the SOLARIS synchrotron. As it was our first experiment in such a lab and it was recommended to have 2 people per shift we were joined by Kasia Dusiło from a neighbour group at the…
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…