Projects

Visit projects’ websites and learn more about Fellows who already started their research under the POLONEZ BIS programme.

The following list will be gradually updated as new projects commence.

Projects list:

1. Local experts in Polish and German World Heritage Cities: understanding their role in polycentric governance of heritage sites

Principal Investigator: dr Iuliia Eremenko
Host institution:University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.wnpism.uw.edu.pl/en/polonez-bis_heriexpert/

2. Ceramic technology and the socio-political environment of Predynastic Egypt

Principal Investigator: dr Jade Bajeot
Host institution: Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.technopregypt.iksio.pan.pl/index.php

3. Towards grammatical iconicity of language: a crosslinguistic study of P demotion constructions

Principal Investigator: dr Katarzyna Janic
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan
Project's website: www.katjan21.web.amu.edu.pl

4. Values, Trust, and Decision Making in Public Health

Principal Investigator: dr Elena Popa
Host institution: Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-values-trust

5. Wavization and quantization of the observables in the universe

Principal Investigator: dr Nezihe Uzun
Host institution: Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.cft.edu.pl/pracownik/nuzun

6. Multiomic level analyses in atypical diabetes patient derived iPSC and pancreatic cells- key to function

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Maciej Łałowski
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University
Project's website: www.maclal1-polonezbis.web.amu.edu.pl

7. Alien rule: Unveiling the mechanisms used by invasive ants to adapt to current and future environmental conditions

Principal Investigator: dr Iago Sanmartín-Villar
Host institution: Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS
Project's website: www.miiz.waw.pl/en/programy-ue/polonez-bis/39-instytut/programy-ue/1129-polonez-bis-2

8. Unlocking Bioactivity of Forest Plants Associated Mycobiome as Sources of Novel Carotenoids and other BioPigments: Intensifying their Potential using Nanotechnology

Principal Investigator: dr El-Sayed Ali
Host institution: Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences
Project's website: www.bioexplor.eu

9. (Anti)Classification and invariants in dynamics

Principal Investigator: dr Philipp Kunde
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/polonez-acid

10. Metaphor and Semiotics in (Inter)Action

Principal Investigator:dr Michael Pleyer
Host institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University
Project's website: www.human.umk.pl/nauka/granty-pracownikow/metafora-i-semiotyka-w-interakcji

11. Application of the novel geochronological and isotope-geochemical methods to the early Earth studies: testing models of the continental crust formation and evolution, and initiation of the plate tectonics

Principal Investigator:dr hab. Leonid Shumlyanskyy
Host institution: Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.ing.pan.pl/en/staff/staff-websites/leonid-shumlyanskyy/research-project-ncn-polonez

12. Petrochronology of the northeastern Gondwana terranes: implications for the supercontinent cycle

Principal Investigator: dr Jérémie Soldner
Host institution: Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.ing.pan.pl/en/staff/staff-websites/jeremie-soldner/research-project-ncn-polonez

13. Gravitation and Dark Matter

Principal Investigator: dr Thomas Zlosnik
Host institution: University of Gdańsk
Project's website: spacetime.ug.edu.pl

14. Bridging the Understanding between Oxygen Electrocatalysis Activity and Electrode Stability in Acidic Medium: An Approach Towards Designing Low-cost PEM Fuel cells and Water Electrolyzers

Principal Investigator: dr Biswaranjan Mohapatra
Host institution: Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.elektro.chemia.uj.edu.pl/polonez-bis

15. Products of experts for robotic manipulation

Principal Investigator: dr Marek Kopicki
Host institution: Poznan University of Technology
Project's website: www.lrm.put.poznan.pl/products-of-experts-for-robotic-manipulation/

16. Novel bioactive glass microfibers and scaffolds for supervised bone regeneration

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Jose Ferreira
Host institution: Łukasiewicz – the Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics
Project's website: www.imif.lukasiewicz.gov.pl/en/bagbone/

17. Sustainable nano-modified seawater-mixed concrete with enhanced service life

Principal Investigator:mgr inż. Sundar Rathnarajan
Host institution: West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
Project's website: www.nanoseacon.zut.edu.pl/?id=15247&no_cache=1

18. Economic Methods for Evaluating the Energy-Efficiency Policies across Europe

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Lukasz Grzybowski
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/lukaszgrzybowski/emeep-project?authuser=0

19. Why we punish? A genealogical account

Principal Investigator: dr Francesco Testini
Host institution: Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-why-we-punish

20. Regulation of SLPI-IL-17 signaling pathway during respiratory infections and vaccination

Principal Investigator: dr inż. Mieszko Wilk
Host institution: Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.stopertussis.project.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/start

21. Development of nano-twinned high-entropy alloys with superior mechanical properties and enhanced irradiation resistance

Principal Investigator: dr Wenyi Huo
Host institution: National Centre for Nuclear Research
Project's website: www.nomaten.ncbj.gov.pl/polonez-bis-dr-wenyi-huo

22. Noble metal clusters incorporated g-C3N4 based heterostructures toward solar-driven photo- and electrochemical conversion

Principal Investigator: dr Xiao Zhang
Host institution: Cracow University of Technology
Project's website: www.matrasmaterials.com/polonez-bis/

23. People of the gods: the worshippers of Allat and Atargatis in the Near East from 4th century BCE – 4th century CE.

Principal Investigator: dr Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
Host institution: University of Wrocław
Project's website: www.al-at.eu

24. Dynamics and evolution of specificity of TA complexes

Principal Investigator: dr Grzegorz Grabe
Host institution: University of Gdańsk
Project's website: www.biotech.ug.edu.pl/dzialalnosc-naukowa/projekty-realizowane-na-mwb/naukowo-badawcze/ncn-polonez-bis-2

25. Networks of Reception in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers and Magazines: Laurence Sterne

Principal Investigator: dr Mary-Celine Newbould
Host institution: Kazimierz Wielki University
Project's website: www.ukw.edu.pl/jednostka/sternews

26. Role of pairing correlations in spontaneous fission process of atomic nuclei

Principal Investigator: dr Anna Zdeb
Host institution: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Project's website: www.kft.umcs.lublin.pl/inspairing/

27. Establishing evidence-based strategic recommendations for patient-centred health care options for individuals experiencing high use of the emergency department

Principal Investigator: dr Iwona Bielska
Host institution: Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.hedu.cm-uj.krakow.pl/

28. Superalkalis as building blocks for the design of unique functional materials and the catalysts for nitrogen conversion into ammonia

Principal Investigator: dr Celina Sikorska
Host institution: University of Gdańsk
Project's website: www.etoh.chem.ug.edu.pl/Polonez2023/

29. Making Up for What We Did: From Morality to the Law; From the Present to thePast

Principal Investigator: dr Giulio Fornaroli
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Project's website: www.incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-making-up

30. Persistent ferromagnetism in oxide heterostructures

Principal Investigator: dr Igor Di Marco
Host institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Project's website: www.fizyka.umk.pl/permhoxet/

31. New multilingual realities in Polish higher education: The negotiation of language practices, identities, and ideologies in times of unprecedented migration and resurgent nationalism

Principal Investigator: dr Anna Becker
Host institution: Institute of Slavic Studies PAS
Project's website: www.multilingualrealities.ispan.edu.pl/

32. Molecular Analysis of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Finger Millet: Improving a Climate Resilient Crop for Food and Nutrition Security

Principal Investigator:dr Edossa Fikiru Wayima
Host institution: Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.fmilletstresstolerance.project.uj.edu.pl/

33. Free-Standing Nano Paper-based 2D-MXENE-Perovskite Semi-Transparent Solar Cell and their Charge Carrier Dynamics

Principal Investigator:dr Sanjay Sahare
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University
Project's website: www.sanjaysahare2084.wixsite.com/ultrafastsolmat

34. Who is pulling the strings? The importance of nutrition in a host-parasite system

Principal Investigator: dr Eniko Csata
Host institution: Museum and Institute of Zoology of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.miiz.waw.pl/en/programy-ue/polonez-bis-2

35. Why we punish? A genealogical account

Principal Investigator: dr Christopha Merdesa
Host institution: Jagiellonian University
Project's website: www.incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-epistemic-injustice

36. Laughter during the war: Russian aggression in Ukraine in political cartoons and memes

Principal Investigator: dr Orest Semotiuk
Host institution: Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.humoresearch.ispan.edu.pl/

37. Dendritic Gold Nanostructures Decorated Graphene as an Electrochemical Biosensor towards Cancer Biomarker CA 125 for the Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer

Principal Investigator: dr Jincymol Kappen
Host institution: Silesian University of Technology
Project's website: www.polsl.pl/rjo22-cone/en/graphsense//

38. Scientific research enabling the development of the process of using recycled photovoltaic panels in the production of metal alloys

Principal Investigator: dr Pradeep Padhamnath
Host institution: AGH University of Science and Technology
Project's website: www.plastmet.agh.edu.pl/pv_recyc-polonezbis/

39. Interacting networks of liquid light

Principal Investigator: dr Helgi Sigurdsson
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/liquid-light/home

40. Development of Perovskite Light Emitting Dressings for Accelerated Wound Healing

Principal Investigator: dr Somnath Mahato
Host institution: Łukasiewicz Research Network – PORT Polish Center for Technology Development
Project's website: www.port.lukasiewicz.gov.pl/o-nas/projekty/projekt/peroled/

41. Solvable models of quasi-one dimensional systems of interacting hard spheres and their implication to the quantum ultracold gases.

Principal Investigator: prof. Viktor Pergamenshchyk
Host institution: Center for Theoretical Physics PAS
Project's website: www.polonez-bis-quasi1d.cft.edu.pl/

42. Nonequilibrium electrons coupled with phonons and collective orders

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Yaroslav Pavlyukh
Host institution: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
Project's website: www.pavlyukh.wppt.pwr.edu.pl/

43. NanoSens: Towards multi-evidence approach for the risk assessment of a diverse group of nanoparticles and advanced materials

Principal Investigator: dr Kabiruddin Ikramuddin Khan
Host institution: University of Gdansk
Project's website: www.nanosens.ug.edu.pl/

44. Turtles from Czechia and Poland: An overview of common evolution in Central Europe since the Triassic until Recent

Principal Investigator: dr Milan Chroust
Host institution: Institute of Paleobiology PAS
Project's website: www.paleo.pan.pl/POLONEZ.html

45. Transport of RNA Across Mitochondrial Membranes: towards mitochondrial genome editing

Principal Investigator: dr Nicola De Franceschi
Host institution: The International Institute of Molecular Mechanisms and Machines PAS
Project's website: www.membranemachines.com/polonez-bis-2

46. Pseudoreflection groups in Operator theory and Harmonic analysis

Principal Investigator: dr Gargi Ghosh
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/protha-polonezbis2/

47. EGF, IGF-1 and cumulus cells co-culture system for in vitro maturation of mammalian oocytes as female fertility preservation strategy

Principal Investigator: dr Taisiia Yurchuk
Host institution: Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.oopreservation.tilda.ws/

48. Costumes of Authority. The Image of Royalty and Clergy in Christian Nubia

Principal Investigator: dr Karel Christiaan Innemée
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.nubianauthorities.archeologia.uw.edu.pl

49. Numerical-experimental analysis of a sieve holes' shape and arrangement effect on the degree of grain damage at the assumed sieving efficiency

Principal Investigator: dr hab. inż. Serhii Kharchenko
Host institution: Lublin University of Technology
Project's website: www.wm.pollub.pl/polonez

50. A novel approach to the assessment of date fruit quality (Phoenix dactylifera L.) under different storage conditions, using innovative models based on image analyses and machine learning

Principal Investigator: dr Younes Noutfia
Host institution: The National Institute of Horticultural Research
Project's website: www.ml4date.inhort.pl/

57. Influence of 3D manipulation in actual, augmented, and virtual reality on the cognitive load while changing representations in modelling chemical structures

Principal Investigator: dr Mária Babinčáková
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.zdch.uj.edu.pl/3dvaarecolo