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Grants for researchers from the University of Wrocław (UWr)

27 of our researchers will receive a total of more than 40 and a half million PLN for the realization of their projects in the recently concluded OPUS 26 and SONATA 19 competitions of the National Science Centre (NCN).

Thanks to an increase in the budget of NCN, 485 people will receive more than 693 million PLN for basic research funding from the competitions decided on May 24, 2024. 237 standard ranking list projects, along with 248 reserve list projects created in these competitions by experts at the second stage of evaluation will be funded.

– I’m glad that the increase in NCN funding has provided an opportunity to fund proposals, including those on reserve lists – emphasizes prof. Patrycja Matusz, Vice-Rector of UWr and plenipotentiary of the Minister of Science for European Affairs and the Presidency of the Republic of Poland in the Council of the European Union.

At the Faculty of Biological Sciences, the Opus 26 grant will go to dr hab. prof. UWr Katarzyna Sokołowska for the research on the “Role of callose in wood formation and drought resistance in angiosperm plants” (1 986 724 PLN).

The Faculty of Biotechnology will receive four grants.

From Opus 26 for “Deciphering the importance of the intracellular FGFR1 module for cell fate” – prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Zakrzewska will receive 2 296 040 PLN.
From Opus 26 for research on “Functional and structural relationship between nucleotide sugar biosynthesis and their transport to the subcellular compartments of glycoconjugate biosynthesis” – prof. dr hab. Mariusz Olczak will receive 1 986 160 PLN.
From Sonata 19 for research on “Zn2+-dependent competition between CD4 and CD8α coreceprtor for Lck tyrosine kinase” – dr Anna Kocyła will receive 1 337 120 PLN.
From Sonata 19 for “Investigating the function of the incomplete heme synthesis pathway in human oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis” – dr Michał Śmiga will receive 1 264 500 PLN.

The Faculty of Chemistry will receive six grants.

From Opus 26, for research on “Organometallic (Fe, Ru, Ir, Os) phospho-inducers of drug-resistant cancer cells’ ferroptosis” – dr hab. Urszula Komarnicka will receive 1 997 234 PLN. (UWr – leader, Medical University of Lublin (UM) – partner, (1 371 888 PLN UWr, 625 346 PLN UM))
From Opus 26 for research on “Scandium, titanium and manganese porphyrinoids – nontrivial tools for the selective bifunctionalisation of simple organic compounds” – dr Karolina Hurej will receive 1 518 168 PLN.
From Opus 26 for research “Towards Deliberate Designing of Primary Optical Thermometers. The Effect of Host Lattice Phonon Energies” – prof. dr hab. Eugeniusz Zych will receive 2 944 104 PLN.
From Opus 26 for research on “Retro-inverso modification of zinc(II)–GLP-1 receptor agonist complexes – from bioinorganic chemistry to animal studies” – dr hab. inż. prof. UWr Magdalena Rowińska-Żyrek will receive 3 313 794 PLN. (UWr – leader, Wrocław Medical University – partner (1 801 482 UWr, 1 512 312 Wrocław Medical University))
From Opus 26 for research on “Tautomerism-coupled subcomponents selfassembly – a new tool for the construction of stimuli-responsive molecular capsules” – dr hab. prof. UWr Bartosz Szyszko will receive 2 576 640 PLN.
From Sonata 19 for research on “Deciphering the promiscuous bioinorganic chemistry of putative copper transporters in bacteria” – dr Aleksandra Hecel-Czaplicka will receive 1 794 620 PLN

Faculty of Physics and Astronomy

Wydział Fizyki i Astronomii

From Opus 26 for research “Transport and weak interactions compact stars” – dr hab. prof. UWr Armen Sedrakian will receive 1 334 680 PLN

The Faculty of Letters will receive three grants

From Opus 26 for research on “Collectives and singulatives across languages” – dr Marcin Wągiel will receive 1 620 892 PLN.
From Sonata 19 for research on “Bloomsburians in Warsaw: Modernist Publishing Networks and the Bloomsbury Group in Interwar Poland” – dr Paulina Pająk will receive 712 967 PLN.
From Sonata 19 for research on “Mentality in the Age of Transition: Hellenistic Historiography and its Audiences” – dr Marcin Kurpios will receive 264 134 PLN.

The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

From Opus 26 for research on „Processing massive string data and beyond: algorithms and conditional lower bounds” – dr prof. UWr Paweł Gawrychowski will receive 2 228 400 PLN

The Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences will receive four grants

From Opus 26 for research on “Dissociating reputation management from the ability to apply normative models in decisionmaking.” – dr hab. prof. UWr Michał Białek will receive 1 627 425 PLN
From Opus 26 for research on “The Magdalenian art in Poland: technology, new departures and social meaning” – dr hab. prof. UWr Tomasz Płonka will receive 1 482 100 PLN
From Sonata 19 for research on “Critical Editing of Source Materials of Aleksander Zarzycki’s Surviving Orchestral Works” – dr Wioleta Muras will receive 288 774 PLN
From Sonata 19 on research on “Taboos and their role in fostering cooperation” – dr Michał Misiak will receive 1 249 158 PLN.

The Faculty of Social Sciences

From Opus 26 for research “Towards co-creative just transition at the urban level in Europe” – prof. dr hab. Aldona Wiktorska Święcka will receive 983 673 PLN.

The Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environmental Management will receive two grants

From Opus 26 for research on “Anaerobic decomposition of labile and non-labile sedimentary organic matter” – dr Michał Bucha will receive 1 965 420 PLN (consortium: leader – UWr, University of Silesia – partner)

From Opus 26 for research on “Allergenic pollen concentrations in the air – a novel approach based on modelling and measurements” – dr hab. inż. prof. UWr Małgorzata Werner will receive 1 979 591 PLN.

The Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics will receive four grants

From Opus 26 for research “Fundamental rights for all? Application of EU fundamental rights against Member States – current state and perspectives” – dr hab. prof. UWr Agnieszka Frąckowiak-Adamska will receive 429 928 PLN.
From Opus 26 for research “Right not to Incriminate Oneself in the Digital Era. Can New Challenges Help us Find Common Foundations?” – dr hab. prof. UWr Wojciech Jasiński will receive 670 550 PLN.
From Opus 26 for research “Freedom of expression of a university teacher in times of culture wars in Poland” – prof. dr hab. Przemysław Kaczmarek will receive 571 123 PLN.
From Sonata 19 for research “Beware financial stability – reverse engineering of legal threats in the areas of technology, climate and anti-money laundering” – dr Katarzyna Parchimowicz will receive 886 590 PLN.