National Centre for Nuclear Research

ESA open day

2020.01.23 - Marek Pawłowski The Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the European Space Agency (ESA) invite you to participate in the information day, which will take place on February 6, 2020 at the headquarters of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education at ul. Hoża 20. The information day will be devoted to the ESA scientific program and the PRODEX research instruments development program. ----

The location of the new American EIC collider has been chosen

2020.01.16 - Marek Pawłowski In early January, the US Department of Energy announced the location of a new powerful high energy physics research device. The Electron-Ion collider (EIC) is to be built in Brookhaven National Laboratory (NY) at a cost of approx. 2 billion. dollars. The research program of planned experiments is co-created by scientists from the NCBJ. ----

100% of our projects made it to the Map

2020.01.16 - Marek Pawłowski On January 14th, Minister of Science and Higher Education published a list of strategic research infrastructures present on the Polish Map of Research Infrastructure. Among 70 approved projects, 7 proposals were prepared by scientists form NCBJ. These include four projects for the new national research structures and three projects of participation in international projects. ----

Professor Grzegorz Wrochna appointed Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education

2019.12.17 - Marek Pawłowski On December 16th, Professor Grzegorz Wrochna, a long-time Director General – first, of the Institute of Nuclear Problems, and then of National Centre for Nuclear Research – has been appointed Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Congratulations! ----

End of the year of Periodic Table – with our accent

2019.12.06 - Marek Pawłowski Closing ceremony for the International Year of the Periodic Table of Elements, established by UNESCO on the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first version of the table of elements by Dmitry Mendeleev, has been held in Tokyo. On the conference preceding the celebration, Professor Michał Kowal (NCBJ) presented new theoretical analyses crucial to the possibility of production of superheavy nuclides in laboratory conditions. ----

Funds for or talented young scientists

2019.11.20 - Marek Pawłowski Young scientists from NCBJ have obtained prestigious funds to conduct their work. Sebastian Trojanowski, PhD, has received a scholarship from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for outstanding young scientists, Łukasz Bartosik, PhD Eng, received a NCN Miniatura grant, and Tomasz Kwiatkowski, MSc Eng, reviened a NCN Preludium grant. ----

Scientific Big Data Analysis for the European XFEL

2019.10.29 - Marek Pawłowski On October 23rd, Professor Robert Feidenhans’l, Executive Director of European XFEL GmbH and Professor Krzysztof Kurek, NCBJ Director General have signed an addendum to the NCBJ-XFEL agreement, as well as an agreement on implementing the Scientific Big Data Analysis project. The XFEL delegation also met with the potential Polish users of the laser and with the representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. ----

Professor Mikko Alava was appointed director of the NOMATEN CoE

2019.10.08 - Marek Pawłowski The process of creating the NOMATEN Center of Excellence is entering a decisive phase: Professor Mikko Alava has assumed the position of director and will soon start completing research teams. CoE NOMATEN is to explore new functional materials. It was created thanks to a grant in the Teaming for excellence competition and thanks to the support of the Foundation for Polish Science. ----