Dr hab. Karol Horodecki, prof. UG, dr inż. Jan Tuziemski, mgr Leonard Sikorski and dr inż. Marek Winczewski won the main prize in the Tech category at the QL Future Hackathon. The scientists prepared a proposal to use a quantum computer for analysing the genome to detect the slice responsible for the anaemic disease or a subsequence of…

In the competition of the Polish Economic Society Gdańsk Branch, two main prizes - for a master's thesis and a bachelor's thesis - as well as two distinctions were awarded to graduates and undergraduates of economics at UG: Julia Recław, Wojciech Kamiński, Sara Stasiak, Wanessa Szuplewska and Przemysław Sadowski. They wrote the awarded works under the supervision of our researchers: dr inz. Aleksandra Koszarek-Cyra, dr…

Rising Stars in Materials Science is an award given to 17 early career scientists who represent the breadth, diversity and interconnectedness of materials science conducted around the world. Dr Alicja Mikołajczyk from the Department of Didactics and Popularisation of Science in the Faculty of Chemistry was among the scientists recognised. The editors…

After a year and a half of operation, the Memling Research Centre can boast cooperation with many foreign scholars, interesting conferences organised and numerous popular science initiatives - from the lecture series 'Around Memling' to the ongoing art competition 'How Paul Beneke acquired the famous Last Judgement for Gdańsk'. We talk about the…

Another publication of research within the Towards Gender Harmony project has occurred in the prestigious journal Nature Scientific Data. The project, headed by dr hab. Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, prof. UG from the Faculty of Social Sciences, was carried out in 62 countries from all over the world. More than 160 male and female researchers…

Dr Aleksandra Brodecka-Goluch on the UG r/v Ocenaograf's deck Once a lake, now a sea. The waters of the Baltic hide many secrets. One of them was discovered by researchers from the University of Kiel and the University of Leipzig, who found a wall at the bottom of the Baltic Sea that testifies to human activity in the region. Dr…

Siphonophor Sulculeolaria chuni (suborder Calycophorae), photo by Maciej Mańko Their larvae are the size of an ant, but over time they surpass even whales in length - siphonophores are the subject of a scientific project by dr Maciej Mańko from the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography. The young oceanographer's research proposal…

This year's winners of the Jan Uphagen Prize for Young Scientists of the City of Gdańsk are dr Julia Balcerowska from the UG Institute of Psychology (humanities and social sciences) and dr Karol Steckiewicz from the Medical University of Gdańsk (sciences and natural sciences). On April 12, the laureates received their statuettes from the Mayor of…

The room where no sound reaches, the history of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, but above all the preparations for the forthcoming evaluation were discussed by the Vice-Rector for Research prof. dr hab. Wiesław Laskowski, deans, vice-deans and heads of units at the University of Gdańsk. Evaluation is one of the most important…

The organisers of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women and Science programme have been recognising the achievements of Polish female researchers for more than 23 years. This unique scholarship competition aims to promote women in science and support their research. The project is addressed to female scientists conducting groundbreaking research in the life…