Nominations 2021
PROF. DR HAB. ELŻBIETA BIARDZKA
Faculty of Letters
PROF. DR HAB. JOANNA BLASZCZAK
Faculty of Letters
PROF. DR HAB. JAROSŁAW BYRKA
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
PROF. DR HAB. PIOTR CICHORACKI
Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences
PROF. DR HAB. ALEKSANDER FILAROWSKI
Faculty of Chemistry
PROF. DR HAB. ANNA GEMRA
Faculty of Letters
PROF. DR HAB. ELŻBIETA GUMIENNA-KONTECKA
prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Gumienna-Kontecka is a graduate of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław, Poland. She was awarded the title of Master of Science in 1998, the degree of Doctor of Chemical Sciences in 2003, and the degree of dr hab. in 2013. From 2003 to 2005, she was a postdoctoral fellow at L. Pasteur in Strasbourg, winning the most prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie scientific fellowship, and in the following years, she held numerous short-term research internships at many universities in Europe and the USA. By the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland of 17 June 2021, she was awarded the title of Professor of Science and Life Sciences. At present, prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Gumienna-Kontecka heads the Scientific Group of Biological Inorganic Chemistry and the Didactic Department of Biological and Medicinal Chemistry.
Her research interests focus on: structure and thermodynamics of bionieorganic systems, especially siderophores, as important iron transporters in pathogens and their synthetic analogues used as structural probes of iron uptake by microorganisms. She is currently working on applying this knowledge in the design of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools against antibiotic-resistant microorganisms. Multinuclear coordination compounds and coordination polymers with promising physical and chemical properties are also important for her research.
Prof. Gumienna-Kontecka is the author of over 80 scientific publications and numerous conference presentations, including plenary lectures at international and national scientific conferences. She managed scientific projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, National Science Centre, 7th Framework Programme or Horizon 2020 of the European Union. For her scientific activity, she has been awarded several times with prizes, among others by the Minister of Science and Higher Education for the habilitation or by the Rector of UWr for her merits for the University of Wrocław in the implementation of scientific research.
Prof. Gumienna-Kontecka is also involved in the organisation and popularisation of science. It is worth noting her activity in the organization of international scientific conferences (including Symposia in Inorganic Biochemistry, EUROBIC, ISMEC), as well as taking the initiative to prepare and coordinate projects arising from international research consortia, which are a unique opportunity to promote and strengthen the potential of the scientific community. She was recently elected as a member of the Council of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, SBIC, for the period 2021-2025. Her professional career and activity in obtaining EU funds have been presented in the press and on television as a good example of the activity of Polish scientists.
PROF. DR HAB. ELŻBIETA KASZUBA
Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences
PROF. DR HAB. JÓZEF KOREDCZUK
Faculty of Law, Administration, and Economics
PROF. DR HAB. PIOTR KOWALSKI
Since the beginning of his scientific career professor Piotr Kowalski has been associated with the University of Wrocław. In the years 1992-1997, he studied mathematics at this university and obtained a master’s degree. Then, after 4-year doctoral studies, in 2001 he defended with honours his thesis “Some theoretical and geometrical properties of bodies with jets operators”. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in mathematical sciences on the basis of his dissertation “Bodies with additive operators”. In 2021 the President awarded him with the academic title. Since 2001 he has been working at the University of Wrocław, currently as a professor. Piotr Kowalski is the author or co-author of more than 20 papers published in renowned international journals such as American Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Annals of Pure and Applied Logic or Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu. He has held many internships abroad and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities, including Urbana-Champain, Paris, Lyon, and Oxford. He gave lectures at several dozen conferences. He has directed NCN grants. The inspiration for his research comes from model theory, which is a branch of mathematical logic. He deals mainly with the model theory of algebraic structures and geometric structures. His main research topics include the theory of models of group actions on bodies, the theory of models of bodies with operators, and the Ax-Schanuel property. This property is motivated by Schanuel’s hypothesis on algebraic aspects of exponential functions in the body of complex numbers and the related Ax’s theorem. Piotr Kowalski proved that the Axa-Schanuel property holds for many homomorphisms of algebraic groups, also in the case of positive characteristics not considered before. Analyzing actions of groups on bodies, he used Bass-Serre theory to axiomatize existentially closed bodies with actions of finitely generated virtually free groups. In his research, he uses advanced algebra, algebraic geometry, differential algebra, and model theory methods. Piotr Kowalski promoted one doctoral student, Daniel Hoffmann, in 2018; he is supervising another, Jakub Gogolok. He is married to Pınar, a Turkish mathematician. They have a daughter, Ada. He supports the club WKS Śląsk Wrocław.
PROF. DR HAB. GUESTWIT MALINOWSKI
Faculty of Letters
PROF. DR HAB. AGNIESZKA MATUSIAK
Faculty of Letters
PROF. DR HAB. MACIEJ MATWIJÓW
Faculty of Letters
PROF. DR HAB. JOANNA ORSKA
Since 1 October 2004, employee of the Department of Post-1918 Literature at the Institute of Polish Studies, University of Wrocław. She teaches workshops in the Literary and Art Criticism specialisation and in the Culture and Practice of Texts programme, of which she was a co-author. She supervises the Laboratory of Contemporary Critical Forms (as its head). Her interests include criticism, reflection on literary process, research on modernism, postmodernism and avant-garde understood as broad cultural phenomena. She is the author of four books (“The Avantgarde Breakthrough in Twentieth-Century Modernism in Poland”, “Lyrical Narrations. ” New Trends in Polish Poetry 1989-2006″, „Republika poetów. Poeticism and Politics in Critical Practice”, “Performatives. Syntax/rhetoric, genres and programs of poetic constructivism”), as well as many literary and critical sketches and other statements on recent poetry and criticism. She led the team of an NPRH grant that resulted in two multi-author monographs, “Nauka chodzienia. Programmatic texts of the late avant-garde,” of which she is also co-editor. She has published her articles in “Teksty Drugie,” “Ruch Literacki,” “Zagadnieniach Rodzajów Literackich,” “Czas Kultury,” “Forum Poetyki,” “FA-art,” “Odra,” and “Twórczość,” among others. She takes part in meetings, discussions, panels concerning the latest poetry and criticism. She was a juror of the Wisława Szymborska Poetry Award and the Silesius Poetry Award.
PROF. DR HAB. PIOTR SMOLEŃSKI
Faculty of Chemistry
PROF. DR HAB. ROMAN SZOSTAK
Faculty of Chemistry
PROF. DR HAB. MONIKA WOLTING
prof. dr hab. Monika Wolting is a full professor at the Institute of German Studies of the University of Wrocław, a literary critic, vice-president of the Goethe Society in Poland and spokesperson of the International Christa Wolf Center. She is a laureate of the “Meritorious for Reconciliation” award. She works in the prestigious University of Tübingen “Cassandra” project in cooperation with NATO. Prof. Wolting’s research lies at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, and her work draws on semiotic theories, particularly narratological ones. He works on contemporary German literature, aesthetics and politics, the literature of conflict, climate fiction, engaged literature, migration literature and cultural identity, and examines texts from German, Polish and world literature. Recent monograph: Der neue Kriegsroman. Repräsentationen des Afghanistankriegs in der deutschen Gegenwartsliteratur. Winter: Heidelberg 2019. published by Brill and Taylor & Francis.
Translated by Agnieszka Borgul (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
