University Engaged - Researchers

AMU scientist awarded the European Meteorological Society prize as the first Pole

Prof. Grażyna Gajewska

Prof. Grażyna Gajewska and her team are conducting research funded by Paris-Dauphine University ‘Women and Science Chair’. The project entitled WHEN SCIENCE IS A WOMAN. Factors Determining Women’s Scientific Careers in Poland (AMU) and Ukraine (CHNU) is ongoing.

Prof. Grzegorz Ziółkowski: Cultural perspective on self-immolation

Theatre scholar Prof. Grzegorz Ziółkowski received the Tadeusz Kotarbiński Award of the First Rector of the University of Łódź for his book «A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations. Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture». The publication was considered the best monograph in the field of humanities in ...

Prof. Anna Goździcka-Józefiak and Dr Alicja Warowicka: The (magical) swallowwort

Extract from the greater celandine (Chelidonium Majus L.) that is also known as swallowwort has enormous healing potential. The herb can become a weapon in the fight against dangerous diseases. It destroys not only cancer cells, but also bacteria, viruses and fungi. The molecular mechanism behind this phenomenon was discovered ...

Prof. Piotr Ziółkowski, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology – helps developing intelligent breeding strategies for crops

High-yield barley plant that is drought and pathogen resistant at the same time – sounds like science-fiction? Not at all – we are in need of those kinds of crops now. Prof. Piotr Ziółkowski, the PI in the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (Faculty of Biology, AMU), is conducting ...

Dr Andrzej Zieleziński: Solving DNA secrets

Dr Andrzej Zieleziński is a molecular biologist, expert in bioinformatics and winner of the 19th edition of the “Polityka” Science Award in the field of life sciences. The researcher develops computational methods for determining gene function, finding similarities between gene sequences and investigating gene formation mechanisms.

Dr Anna Juras from the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology - In the royal laboratory

A team led by Dr Anna Juras from the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology conducts fossil DNA research at the Institute of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology of Adam Mickiewicz University. Their laboratory started to be affectionately called the royal laboratory after they began to study the DNA of the Piast ...

Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak, Laboratory of Gene Therapy (LGT) – gives hope to the sick

Prof. Krzysztof Sobczak is the head of Laboratory of Gene Therapy (LGT), which is a part of Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Previously, he worked at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań, and ...

Professor Jakub Rybka - From meniscus to a COVID-19 tes

AMU Centre for Advanced Technologies is a multidisciplinary consortium of 11 bodies that brings together experts from the fields of exact sciences, life sciences, and technology. The centre works on new materials and biomaterials with broad applications. The deputy head of CAT is Professor Jakub Rybka.

Prof. Andrzej Wiśniewski, Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science - Inferential logic of questions

In 2019, Prof. Andrzej Wiśniewski from the Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science received Poland’s most important scientific distinction: the FN P Prize. The prize has been awarded for the 28th time by the Foundation for Polish Science and is considered the Polish equivalent to the Nobel Prize.