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 2024/2025, which were of fundamental importance to the development of their disciplines.

 

Marie Skłodowska-Curie grants for UW

Miniature endoscope for premature babies

From classical hydrodynamics to quantum hydrodynamics

Bird Nesting in Cities: The More Concrete, the Fewer Chicks

UW researchers build prototype for European Space Agency

Neuronal plasticity of the brain and social learning

The Last Light of the Gaia Space Mission

New sources of cosmic X-rays

“Einstein Telescope” Annual Meeting

New reaction initiator in organic chemistry

The physics of transport networks in nature

Prof. Wiktor Lewandowski awarded with the NCN Prize

Archaeological discoveries by UW researchers at Gonio-Apsaros

Range of European forest plants

UW researchers among the most cited

Nine Fulbright grantees from the UW

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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UW in QS World University Rankings 2025

UW in QS “World University Rankings by Subject” 2025

UW in the World University Rankings by Subject 2025

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