…zania,” says Karen Nyakato Kyabega, the best foreign student in Poland. The twelfth edition of the INTERSTUDENT competition has been won by Karen Nyakato Kyabega, BA student from the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw.   The mission of the INTERSTUDENT competition is to select, reward and promote the best foreign students studying in Poland at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels. The competition seeks t…

…ical and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw. As an EMBO Installation Grantee, Dr Bandyra will research the role of PNPase in human mitochondria. More than 1,800 leading life scientists are members of the international European Molecular Biology Organisation. The major goals of the organization are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, stimulate the exchange of scientific information, and help build a…

…heir scientific observations.   To quantify these effects, a team of researchers, led by Dr Przemysław Mróz from the Astronomical Observatory at the University of Warsaw, studied archival images captured by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), an instrument that operates from Caltech’s Palomar Observatory near San Diego. ZTF scans the entire night sky every two days, cataloguing cosmic o…

…ingful than it has been recently suspected and can still reveal a number of surprising archaeological discoveries. During initial investigations, conducted since 2015, the valley proved to be very rich in archaeological remains from at least five different archaeological periods. Archaeologists discovered that a human settlement was present there since the late Neolithic period, about 4300-4000 BCE. And both in Ayn Bani Saidah and in Bilt, tombs…

…thin Flagship 2.   The breakout room on multilingualism will be coordinated by Prof. Vahram Atayan from Heidelberg University, European Citizenship – by Prof. Angela Lupone from the University of Milan, and Dr Zuzana Kasáková from Charles University, European Pluralities – by Prof. Agata Bareja-Starzyńska and Dr Nicolas Maslowski from the University of Warsaw.   Registration and session The meeting is addressed to any interested academ…

…Magellanic Clouds.   Researcher profile Dorota Skowron, PhD, is a specialist in astrophysics. She works at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. She is a member of the International Astronomical Union. In her research she concentrates on the Milky Way galaxy, stellar populations, variable stars and exoplanets. She has presented numerous research papers that are published in ”Nature” and ”Nature Astronomy”. In 2019, with…

…mza, PhD, from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, is a theoretical physicist and chemist. He specialises in quantum physics of matter and light-matter interactions. He was awarded the National Science Centre Award 2020 for this theoretical description of interactions between ultracold atoms, ions and molecules. He uses theoretical methods, and also performs computer simulations. In his work, he cooperates with experimental groups from…

…raphical finds on the map, and will visualise the reach of styles, the range of activities involving workshops and itinerant artisans, and through a number of chronological and geographical layers and filters will allow to trace spatial and diachronic correlations among different types of data. Researcher profile   Paweł Nowakowski, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Ancient History of the Faculty of History UW, and a…

…unding of € 619 mln. The winners represent research organisations from 22 countries.   Five out of 14 applications submitted from the University of Warsaw as their host institution were successfully assessed by international peer reviewers. Three projects from the University of Warsaw have been awarded ERC Starting Grants.   Roman Imperial epigraphic traditions Dr Paweł Nowakowski from the UW Faculty of History is the principal in…

…gions. In January, the University of Warsaw hit the 123rd position among 172 other universities which were assessed for their performance in four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking included only two Central European universities: University of Warsaw (123 rank position) and Charles University in Prague (79 rank position).   In March, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts,…