A team of physicists from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre of the Jagiellonian University have observed a topological Lifshitz transition in the Weyl semimetal NbP by decorating its surface with heavy elements (Pb or Nb). Weyl points in the bulk and Fermi arcs on the surface of Weyl semimetals are of great interest to material physicists and technology specialists.
A groundbreaking study that allows the creation of 3D maps of bond orientations in a sample has been published by the CIRI beamline team in the Journal of American Chemical Society. In-depth characterisation of a sample, while not destroying the research material, is crucial for scientists in material and life sciences and will allow previously unattainable information to be extracted from complex systems.
The Centre for International Studies and Development of the Jagiellonian University is now a member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI).
Prof. Michał Wierzchoń from the Jagiellonian University Institute of Psychology has been elected the new president of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). He is the first Polish researcher to serve as president since the organisation was established in 1985. It currently has nearly one thousand members from all over the world.
The Frank Wilczek Prize Committee announced that the winner of the second edition of the contest is Dr Michał Parniak from the University of Warsaw. He was awarded for ‘developing new experimental platforms for quantum research and technologies and using them to demonstrate the latest quantum phenomena and protocols’.
Una Europa has secured the European’s Commission’s support to proceed with Una.Universitas, an ambitious four-year project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme’s European Universities Initiative. The 14.4m grant will support Una Europa to take the next steps towards its ambition of developing a truly integrated European University of the Future.
ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, an independent organisation dedicated to studying and researching higher education, known for its Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), has once again announced the results of the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). The list features 13 academic disciplines available at the Jagiellonian University – the largest number out of 25 Polish higher education institutions featured in the ranking.
In June, the Medical University of Warsaw hosted the national finals of the international contest Jules Allemand Trophy for dental students, which was won by Małgorzata Zając, now graduate of the Jagiellonian University Medical College. She will now represent Poland during the international finals, which will take place in September in D’Annunzio University of Chieti in Italy.
The Jagiellonian University Centre for International Studies and Development, represented by Prof. Emilian Kavalski, the leader of POET project, is one of the partners of winning Jean Monnet grant entitled What role for Europe in the Indo-Pacific? Identifying regional policy responses towards the EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy 2022-25.
A meeting between JU Rector Prof. Jacek Popiel and the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Poland Saad Saleh Al-Saleh was the focal point of the visit of the Saudi Arabian diplomats to the oldest Polish University. The guests have also taken a tour of Collegium Novum and JU Museum Collegium Maius.
On 4 July 2022, following the decision of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, Mateusz Hołda from the Jagiellonian University Medical College Faculty of Medicine became the first Polish researcher to earn the title of professor before turning 30. Previously, the youngest person to accomplish such a feat was Prof. Krzysztof Sośnica from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences at 35.
The European Research Council has announced the results of Consolidator Grant 2021 competition. The awarded researchers include Dr hab. Dawid Pinkowicz, Prof. UJ from the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Chemistry, who has received a grant worth over 1.7 million euros for the project aimed to produce unique molecular photomagnets.