Rector's Proxy for Cooperation within the Framework of Una Europa Prof. Stanisław Kistryn has become the coordinator of the Polish branch of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA). The Coalition, numbering more than 350 organisations from over 40 countries, was established last year in order to change the method of evaluation of research.
‘Working Groups are central to CoARA’s mission to enable systemic reform of research assessment. Based on a bottom-up approach with members’ voluntary involvement, Working Groups operate as “communities of practice”, providing mutual learning and collaboration on specific areas. Participating members will exchange knowledge, learn from each other’s experience, discuss and develop outputs to advance research assessment and support the implementation of members’ commitments. In response to the quality of the proposals submitted, and the view expressed at the June General Assembly to accommodate all high-quality Working Group proposals aligned with CoARA’s vision and mission, the Steering Board has decided to build capacity to accommodate a larger number of proposals than originally anticipated for its first year of operation. The CoARA Steering Board is thus pleased to announce that ten Working Groups and the first five National Chapters have been approved to start their activities as part of CoARA. Some proposals have been given detailed feedback to help revise them for a potential resubmission, and others are being invited to work with CoARA in a different way’, reads the announcement on CoARA website.
After graduation for the Jagiellonian University in 1984, Prof. Stanisław Kistryn became a PhD student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zurich), where he successfully defended his thesis in 1990. Since the beginning of his academic career, he was working closely with the JU Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics. He also worked at ETH, Forschungszentrum Jülich and KVI Groningen. In 2012–2020, he was the JU Vice-Rector for Research and Structural Funds.
Prof. Kistryn’s interests include research on few-nucleon systems in precise experiments using polarised beams and shields, fundamental interactions, and employing nuclear physics in various branches of science (archaeology, medicine, biology, and geology). He is the co-author of more than 200 papers published in journals featured on the Thomson Scientific Master Journal List. He also contributed to more than 220 conference proceedings and 280 annual reports of various institutions. He contributed to the realisation of more than 20 international and national research projects.
Prof. Kistryn is a member of numerous organisations. He served as the treasurer of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, and now he occupied a similar position in Una Europa. He is the Honorary President of the University Committee for Science. He is a member of the Polish Physical Society, European Physical Society and Polish Academy of Science Physics Committee. Until 2022, he was the president of the coordination team for the Excellence Initiative at JU.
