Within the framework of the assistance offered by the National Science Centre (NCN) to researchers fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, principal investigators in NCN grants can offer positions in their teams to Ukrainian researchers.
Eligible for the employment are researchers who hold at least a PhD degree (known as the Candidate of Sciences under the Ukrainian system) and who worked at Ukrainian universities and in other research centres before the war.
Their work and research interests must bear relevance for the thematic scope of the projects.
Listed below are projects carried out at Jagiellonian University in which researchers from Ukraine may be employed.
The list will be updated, based on information received from JU researchers.
Researchers interested in collaborating on the below listed projects are welcome to send their queries directly to the email addresses specified below.
Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology
- Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Joanna Cichy
Project title: The role of epidermal protein Regnase-1 in chronic itch-associated diseases.
Contract number: UMO-2019/35/B/NZ6/03357
Research domain: biological sciences (neurobiology, cell biology, immunology, molecular biology, biochemistry or related domains)
Research thematic scope: The project deals with interactions between the cells of epidermis, immunological system and neural system in the control of chronic itchy inflammatory skin conditions.
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: katarzyna.szmyd@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Dr Agata Szade
Project title: Cellular and molecular mechanisms driving the induction of mobilizing cytokines
Contract number: UMO-2019/35/D/NZ3/04406
Research domain: biological sciences
Research thematic scope: Hematology, immunology, stem cells. cell mobilization
Employment details: 2 people / 12 months
Contact email: agata.szade@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Biology
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Joanna Rutkowska, prof. UJ
Project title: Ecophysiology of learning: The effects of short- and long-term changes in ambient temperature on learning performance in a model songbird
Contract number: UMO-2018/31/B/NZ8/02388
Research domain: biology
Research thematic scope: Ecophysiology of learning: The effects of short- and long-term changes in ambient temperature on learning performance in a model songbird.
Employment details: 1 person / 2-4 months
Contact email: joanna.rutkowska@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: 1) Prof. dr hab. Paweł Koteja / 2) Dr Anni Hämäläinen
Project title:
- Experimental evolution of physiological and behavioral adaptations in bank voles: molecular background and alimentary system bacterial symbionts.
- The role of environmental factors in maintaining adaptive pace-of-life variation in a mammal holobiont: experimental evolution approach.
Contract number: 1) UMO 2016/23/B/NZ8/00888; 2) UMO-2018/29/B/NZ8/01924
Research domain: biology
Research thematic scope: Ecological and evolutionary animal physiology, experimental evolution, physiological adaptation evolution, role of metabolic rate and symbioses with micro-organisms in life functions of animals.
Employment details: 1 person up to 7 months or fewer
Contact email: pawel.koteja@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Chemistry
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Mariusz Paweł Mitoraj, Prof. UJ
Project title: From structure to dehydrogenation reactions - theoretical investigations on homopolar dihydrogen interactions in hydrogen storage and other nanomaterials.
Contract number: UMO-2017/26/E/ST4/00104
Research domain: chemistry
Research thematic scope: theoretical investigations on homopolar dihydrogen interactions in hydrogen storage and other nanomaterials.
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: mariusz.mitoraj@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Szczubiałka
Project title: Przełączalne światłem widzialnym analogi cisplatyny i kompleksy wybranych metali przejściowych – właściwości fotochemiczne i działanie przeciwnowotworowe in vitro
Contract number: UMO-2021/41/B/NZ7/02484
Research domain: chemistry
Research thematic scope: The aim of the project is to obtain a series of new photo-switchable transition metal complexes and explore their potential for use in light-controlled therapy, particularly anti-cancer therapy.
Employment details: 1 researcher / 3-12 months
Contact email: k.szczubialka@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Philology
- Principal Investigator: Dr Marta Ruda
Project title: Theory of language variation in light of the realisation of the person, number, and gender features of the subject in Polish, Kashubian, and Silesian grammar.
Contract number: UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/00130
Research domain: linguistics
Research thematic scope: theory of null subjects, theory of language variation, theory of ellipsis
Employment details: to be agreed with candidates (max. 12 months)
Contact email: marta.ruda@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Philosophy
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Dariusz Asanowicz, Prof. UJ
Project title: The brain mechanism of the interactions between attentional networks. An EEG/ERP and fNIRS optical brain imaging study.
Contract number: UMO-2016/22/E/HS6/00139
Research domain: humans and social life
Research thematic scope: Cerebral mechanisms of attention.
Employment details: 1 person / 8 months
Contact email: d.asanowicz@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science
- Principal Investigator: Dr Aleksandra Wrońska
Project title: On-line monitoring of dose distribution in proton therapy using heavy scintillating fibers.
Contract number: UMO-2017/26/E/ST2/00618
Research domain: nuclear physics, medical physics
Research thematic scope: Our group is constructing a detection setup, based on heavy scintillator fibers, for online monitoring of proton therapy.
Employment details: 1 person / up to 12 months
Contact email: aleksandra.wronska@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Dr Marcin Zagórski
Project title: Regulatory mechanisms for reproducible neural pattern specification in the developing spinal cord.
Contract number: UMO-2017/26/D/NZ2/00454
Research domain: life sciences
Research thematic scope: Systems biology, computational biology, developmental biology.
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: marcin.zagorski@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Geography and Geology
- Principal Investigator: Dr Katarzyna Ostapowicz
Project title: Trajectories, causes and consequences of land cover and land use changes in Central Europe (TRACE)).
Contract number: UMO-2018/29/B/ST10/02979
Research domain: exact sciences and life sciences
Research thematic scope: remote sensing, GIS, spatial modelling, changes in land use, biogeography, ecology, changes in biodiversity, carbon cycle.
Employment details: 1 person / 8 months (May-December 2022)
Contact email: katarzyna.ostapowicz@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Michał Skiba, Prof. UJ
Project title: 1 Interaction of cesium with dioctahedral high-charge swelling clays; 2) Mechanisms of glauconite weathering in soils of temperate climate.
Contract number: UMO-2018/31/B/ST10/02192; UMO-2016/23/B/ST10/02000
Research domain: Earth and environmental sciences (optionally: analytical chemistry, radiochemistry)
Research thematic scope: Research of the mechanisms of Fe and K glauconite-nontronite aluminosilicate weathering and the interaction of layered silicates and aluminosilicates with Cs, including 137-Cs, a study of selectivity of Cs sorption in high-charge swelling clays (smectite and vermiculite).
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: michal.skiba@uj.edu.pl
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Principal Investigator: Dr Sylwester Arabas
Project title: Modelling isotopic signatures in precipitation using particle-based cloud microphysics
Contract number: DEC-2020/39/D/ST10/ 01220 (agreement from June 2022)
Research domain: computer studies
Research thematic scope: atmospheric cloud modelling, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, numerical methods, cloud microphysics, water isotope splitting.
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: sabina.batko-jakubiak@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Leokadia Białas-Cież, Prof. UJ
Project title: Constructive Approximation on Algebraic Sets.
Contract number: UMO-2017/25/B/ST1/00906
Research domain: mathematics
Research thematic scope: Polynomial regression, polynomial inequalities and constructive function theory mainly on algebraic sets butt not only.
Employment details: 1 person / approx. 6 months
Contact email: sabina.batko-jakubiak@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Grzegorz Kapustka, Prof. UJ
Project title: Hyper-Kaehler manifolds.
Contract number: UMO-2018/30/E/ST1/00530
Research domain: mathematics
Research thematic scope: algebraic geometry, algebra, geometry, analysis
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months or 2 persons / 8 months
Contact email: sabina.batko-jakubiak@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Marian Mrozek
Project title: Topological Dynamics in the Big Data problem
Contract number: UMO-2019/35/B/ST1/00874
Research domain: mathematics
Research thematic scope: Combinatorial topological dynamics: design and implementation of algorithms for the topological analysis of dynamical systems directly from finite samples (time series, clouds of vectors), in particular computation of topological invariants: Morse decompositions, Morse-Conley graphs, Conley indexes. Applications to computer assisted proofs, in particular proofs of chaotic behavior. Theoretical research around these and related concepts, in particular discrete Morse theory, Conley theory, persistent homology, finite topological spaces, sampled dynamics.
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: sabina.batko-jakubiak@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Prof. dr hab. Jacek Tabor
Project title: Deep Self-Organizing Neural Graphs.
Contract number: UMO-2021/41/B/ST6/01370
Research domain: computer science, technical informatics
Research thematic scope: Machine learning methods with emphasis on deep neural networks and explainable artificial intelligence.
Employment details: 1 person / 12 months
Contact email: sabina.batko-jakubiak@uj.edu.pl
- Principal Investigator: Dr hab. Łukasz Kosiński, Prof. UJ
Project title: Several Complex Variables vs. Operator Theory.
Contract number: UMO-2017/26/E/ST1/00723
Research domain: mathematics
Research thematic scope: Analysis in general (preferably: complex analysis, functional analysis or operator theory).
Employment details: flexible employment arranged individually with candidates
Contact email: sabina.batko-jakubiak@uj.edu.pl
