UL: Scientific lectures and research

We talked with professor Jarosław Byrka from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Wrocław. Prof. Byrka participated in the prestigious FOCS 2024 conference in Chicago at the end of October, presenting his work titled The Bidirected Cut Relaxation for Steiner Tree has Integrality Hap Smaller than 2.

In 2024, the University of Wrocław received a prestigious grant as part of the international DUT call 2022 competition, announced under the co-financed partnership Horyzont Europa Driving Urban Transitions. This initiative involves 27 European countries, including Poland. The competition aims to support international research projects addressing the challenges faced by modern cities.

Prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław is developing a scientific project concerning the analysis of factors sustaining the symptoms of eating disorders. The research is being conducted at the University of Tokyo Medical School Hospital, which ranked 17th in the World’s Best Hospitals 2024 ranking and was named the best hospital in Japan.
Biotechnologists from the University of Wrocław along with researchers from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences and the Wrocław University of Science and Technology have brewed some beer… for scientific purposes, of course. A team of scientists examined the interior metabolome and profile of volatile organic compounds in barm and its mutants, which […]

Can keeping a healthy diet lead to a pathology? How social media can influence nutrition habits and what increases the risk of orthorexia? We are discussing the issue with prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera, a specialist in the field of orthorexia nervosa and eating disorders, the author of the first scientific monograph about orthorexia nervosa in the world, Orthorexia Nervosa: Current Understanding and Perspectives, published by Cambridge University Press.

Stanford University and the Elsevier publishing house have published the next edition of the ranking of researchers with the greatest impact on the development of science in the world (the so-called TOP 2% list). Every year, more and more scientists from the University of Wrocław appear in the list.

At the University of Wrocław, we are exceptionally appreciative not only of finalists and laureates of Olympiads and candidates who have passed their school-leaving exams, but above all of those who want to develop their interests and become ‘Young Researchers’. Today we will tell the story of our history student.
While conducting research in the Lviv archive, dr Magdalena Gibiec comes across two unusually labeled folders. Intrigued, she borrows them, not yet knowing that this decision will completely change the course of her research and result in a publication by the prestigious academic publisher Routledge. Talking with dr Magdalena Gibiec from the Historical Institute of […]