Development of research infrastructure at the Ochota campus
01 07 2021
Category: Priority Research Area II
14 projects – out of 46 submitted proposals – will receive funding from the Fund for the Renovation and Development of Research Infrastructure (Action I.4.2. within the framework of Priority Research Area II).
All the submitted proposals were subjected to public consultation. The applicants could modify their projects according to the suggestions expressed by the members of the University community. In the next stage, the proposals were evaluated by the Selection Committee. As a result, the authors of the best proposals were invited to an interview.
The goal of the call was to finance new scientific infrastructure, which will increase the capacity of the University and address the existing needs of various research teams at the Ochota campus. Access to the purchased equipment will be given not only to employees of the unit which received funding. The infrastructure will be available – based on agreed principles – to research teams from other University units.
14 projects selected for funding for a total sum of over 4.6 mln PLN were submitted by the faculties of: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geography and Regional Studies, and Psychology:
- Prof. Dr. hab. Renata Bilewicz (Faculty of Chemistry) – PM-IRRA spectrometer for the measurements at the air—solution interface to study the interactions of biologically important species with model cell membranes – 500 000 PLN,
- Prof. Dr. hab. Ryszard Buczyński (Faculty of Physics) – Infrastructure for fabrication of optical fiber-grade non-oxide soft glasses and components – 352 000 PLN,
- Dr. hab. Maciej Dłużewski (Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies) – Scientific-grade Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) and Real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning receivers (Base-Rover System) – 67 403 PLN,
- Prof. Dr hab. Wojciech Dominik (Faculty of Physics) – High performance assembly facility of advanced Micro-Pattern Time Projection Chambers for Nuclear Astrophysics and Dark Matter search experiments – 305 200 PLN,
- Dr. Tomasz Kamiński (Faculty of Biology) – Establishing the laboratory of microfluidics and high throughput analysis of single cells – 465 795 PLN,
- Dr. Anna Karnkowska (Faculty of Biology) – Biodiversity and Evolution Research Laboratory – 308 800 PLN,
- Dr. hab. Agnieszka Kwiatek (Faculty of Biology) – The establishment of the Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) laboratory – 287 000 PLN,
- Dr. Anna Łasica (Faculty of Biology) – Microbial culture collection and implementation of a comprehensive collection management system – 287 000 PLN,
- Dr. Alicja Niedźwiecka (Faculty of Psychology) – Mobile eye tracking equipment for the study of human cognition – 202 540 PLN,
- Dr. hab. Barbara Piętka (Faculty of Physics) – Laser with tunable pulse repetition rate and high peak energy for photonic computing – 496 826 PLN,
- Dr. hab. Robert Szoszkiewicz, prof. ucz. (Faculty of Chemistry) – Custom built force spectroscopy puller to investigate conformational transitions within single biomolecules such as proteins, RNAs and DNAs, as well as their interactions with cells – 176 199 PLN,
- Prof. Dr. hab. Andrzej Udalski (Astronomical Observatory, Faculty of Physics) – OGLE-V – the next phase of the OGLE Survey – 500 000 PLN,
- Prof. Dr. hab. Krzysztof Woźniak (Faculty of Chemistry) – Replacement of the CCD detector in single crystal X-ray diffractometer by HyPix-6000HE Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) detector – 349 325 PLN,
- Prof. Dr. hab. Łukasz Wyrzykowski (Astronomical Observatory, Faculty of Physics) – Scaling up the Northern Astronomical Station in Ostrowik – 337 260 zł.
To learn more, visit the website of the call >>
Four additional infrastructural projects will be financed within the call “Strengthening the core-facility potential on the Ochota Campus” (Action I.4.1. within the framework of Priority Research Area I). The proposals will be granted a total sum of nearly 20 mln PLN.