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.

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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