University of Warsaw Breakthroughs

The University’s teams have acquired recognition of the worldwide academic milieu in many areas of knowledge. Research projects and discoveries by the University’s scholars, in the fields of Natural Sciences as much as in the Humanities and Social Sciences, have won greatest respect.

The following are examples of projects, publications and discoveries by scholars from the University of Warsaw in the academic year 2025/2026, which were of fundamental importance to the development of their disciplines.

UW students at the International Rover Challenge 2026

Stars of internationalisation from UW

University of Warsaw in THE WUR by Subject 2026

UW project recognised by the European Commission

Free-floating planets – lonely wanderers in the Milky Way

Renewal of the doctorate of Prof. Jacek M. Kurczewski

A great diversity of nanostructures

University of Warsaw researchers trace the footsteps of the first Muslims in Africa

Research Impact Leaders Award 2025 for the University of Warsaw

Successes of UW students in programming

Three new ERC grants at the University of Warsaw

Publication in “Advanced Functional Materials”

University of Warsaw in the GRAS 2025

88 million PLN for UW investments

UW Rector’s Teaching Award 2025

Gravitino: a new candidate for Dark Matter

New ways to emit light

Quantum radio antenna

New MAB Center of Excellence at the University of Warsaw

Discoveries in Argishtikhinili

University of Warsaw scientists in 4EU+ Visiting Professorships programme

Scholarships for outstanding young scientists 2025

A new dimension of quantum cryptography

Additional information

Our University is present in more than 20 countries in 5 continents through archaeological excavations, ethnography and cultural studies research.

Some sites have been the subject of our research even for several decades. The archaeologists who investigate the ancient Egypt have at their disposal the University’s Research Station in Cairo, established in 1959. Polish telescopes operate at the Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile, where UW astronomers perform large-scale sky surveys.

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