UL: Scientific lectures and research

On Friday, April 11, at 4:30 pm, we invite you to the Library of the Institute of Geography and Regional Development (Plac Uniwersytecki 1, 3rd floor) for an open debate entitled: “Bezpieczeństwo żywnościowe w mieście” (eng. „Food security in the city”.

The employees of the Department of Microbial Ecology and Acarontomology at the University of Wrocław would like to invite you to an open lecture as part of the visiting professor programme (IDUB), which will be given by prof. Marco Pombi from the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases – Parasitology Section at the University of Rome ‘Sapienza’.

‘Krajobraz po powodzi’ (eng. Landscape after the flood) is the title of the seventeenth episode of the podcast Fantastyczny Dolny Śląsk, whose guest was dr Marek Kasprzak, prof. UWr from the Department of Geomorphology of the Institute of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Wrocław. During the conversation, prof. Kasprzak discussed the causes, effects and prevention of flooding. We encourage you to listen!

‘Czy żyjemy w nowej epoce geologicznej – antropocenie?’ (eng. ‘Are we living in a new geological era – the Anthropocene?’) is the title of the next lecture, to which the Institute of Geological Sciences of the University of Wrocław invites everyone. The lecture will be given by dr hab. Jakub Kierczak, prof. UWr.

The Montanuniversität Leoben is another partner of the geologists from the Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of Wrocław in the partnership network within the framework of the European Union programme Erasmus+! The agreement between the universities was concluded thanks to the efforts of dr Piotr Wojtulek from the Institute of Geological Sciences at the University of Wrocław, who is carrying out joint research projects in the field of economic geology with scientists from Leoben.

Dr Michał Halicki and prof. Tomasz Niedzielski from the Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography at the Institute of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Wrocław developed the AltHydro system, which presents innovative water level predictions for the Oder River!

An article summarising the results of palaeoenvironmental studies carried out in the Jizera Mountains was published in the Catena journal (IF 5.4, 140 points MNiSW). It is devoted to sediments filling the bottoms of river valleys. This made it possible to reconstruct the Holocene environmental changes in the upland areas of the Jizera Mountains, comprehensively supplementing the data from the research on local peat bogs.

Culture is what made man something more than just a random event in nature.
– André Malraux

From 20 to 21 March 2025, the Library of the University of Wrocław hosted the Trade Fair Heritage, accompanied by the academic conference ‘Transcending Borders – Interdisciplinarity and Cooperation in Research, Preservation, and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage’.

With the help of modern remote sensing tools such as aerial photography, geophysical surveys, and airborne laser scanning, scientists will be mapping archaeological sites. The head of the Polish part of the project Long-term land use dynamics within the areas of prehistoric ritual places, carried out by the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Wrocław in collaboration with the Universities of Pilsen, Hradec Králové, and Prague will be dr Agnieszka Przybył, who specialises in research on the Neolithic period.

Current climate change rapidly reduces the glacier area in the Northern Hemisphere, including marine-terminating glacier areas in the Arctic and subarctic regions. As a result of this process, vast areas of new coastlines that were previously inaccessible to scientists are now being exposed. An international group of scientists from Poland, the Czech Republic, the United States, and Canada has united in an initiative, supported by a grant from the National Science Centre, to address the knowledge gap concerning coastlines that have emerged due to glacial recession in the 21st century.

On Thursday, March 13, Ambassador of Mexico, Juan Sandoval Mendiolea, was the guest of the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. dr hab. Robert Olkiewicz.

The University of Wrocław and the Council for Scientific Excellence invite you to the conference ‘Postępowania awansowe w świetle dotychczasowych doświadczeń. Praktyka organów I i II instancji’ (eng. Promotion proceedings in the light of experience to date. Practice of bodies of first and second instance), which will be held on 24 March at the Conference Centre of the Library of the University of Wrocław (room 3, ul. Fryderyka Joliot-Curie in Wrocław).