Dr Anna Sobecka from the Institute of Art History at the Faculty of History of the University of Gdańsk has been awarded the Prize of the Committee for Research on Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Presidium of the KNOS had already included the book 'Picturing nature in modern Gdańsk. On the collecting culture of the city' among the outstanding achievements in the discipline of art sciences, and then in a vote…

Dr Magdalena Łągiewska is also the director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Gdańsk. An article by dr Magdalena Lugiewska from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk was published in the Journal of Contemporary China, a journal with an impact factor of 3.126. The publication is the result of research funded by the…

The European Patent Office (EPO) has decided to grant a team of scientists from the UG Department of Chemistry a European patent for an invention - a material, based on TiO2 nanotubes, for air purification from volatile organic and inorganic compounds, dust and microorganisms. The invention entitled: 'Material from titanium for air purification from organic and inorganic compounds, dust and micro-organisms', based on a…

Pictured is the team from the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science at the University of Gdańsk. The International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science at the University of Gdańsk has received more than one million PLN in additional funding from the Foundation for Polish Science for a project carried out under the International Research Agendas…

The journal Nature Nanotechnology has published an article entitled Representing and describing nanomaterials in predictive nanoinformatics, co-authored by dr Alicja Mikołajczyk and dr inż. Karolina Jagiełło and prof. dr hab. Tomasz Puzyn from the Laboratory of Environmental Chemoinformatics, Department of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk. The paper was written on the initiative of the UG scientists as part of scientific…

Tons of dead fish, mass extinction of all living organisms in the Oder, in other words, a great ecological disaster. Theories to explain this phenomenon have arisen and continue to arise. We know for sure that one of the factors wreaking havoc in the Oder is algae - the so-called golden algae. How and why did they get there? Can we do anything to avoid further blooms and an ecological crisis in the future? We ask prof…

A PhD student from the Cancer Immunology group at the University of Gdańsk's International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science (MCBSP), Ines Papak, has received funding from the ExCELLent Grant Programme created by the Polish Stem Cell Bank. Ines was awarded 4th place in a competitive programme aimed at young scientists. She was thus awarded a financial prize to be used to…

Rising temperatures have been worrying climatologists, farmers and hydrologists for some years now. While some associate the increasingly warmer days with pleasant recreation, for others they make work impossible. In Poland, there is currently an agricultural drought in every province. Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Niemirycz from the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk talks about how we can prevent…

More than two million euros has been awarded to the University of Gdańsk by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme. Such a high grant places the UG fifth among Polish universities and ninth in terms of all Polish research centres. A total of more than EUR 110 million has gone to Polish project participants, placing our country in 14th place among EU members.  The…

According to the international Leiden Ranking, the University of Gdańsk is the 10th university with the highest PA(F|FM) ratio. This means that at UG, the ratio of female authors in scientific publications to the number of all male and female authors is very high at 53.2%. The Leiden Ranking analyses more than 1,300 research centres from all over the world in terms of science, collaboration, open access publications and…