Projects - POLONEZ BIS

Project websites

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 Christoph Merdes
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.liquid-light.fuw.edu.pl

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/

51. Understanding the genetic basis of carrot vernalization

Principal Investigator: prof. dr Pablo Federico Cavagnaro
Host institution: University of Agriculture in Krakow
Project's website: www.projekty.urk.edu.pl/index/site/8791

52. Growth of black holes in stellar clusters

Principal Investigator: dr Abbas Askar
Host institution: Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.bhg.camk.edu.pl/

53. Group actions, birational geometry and geometric structures

Principal Investigator: dr Noemie Cecile Combe
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.noemie-combe-23.webself.net/

54. Individual Justification and Uncertainty in Public Health Ethics

Principal Investigator: Jay Allen Zameska
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-individual-justification

55. Ergodic theory meets combinatorial number theory

Principal Investigator: dr Borys Jerzy Kuca
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/polonez-etmcnt

56. Alignment, subjecthood, and transitivity prominence in Indo-European

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Eystein Hambro Dahl
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Project's website: www.eysdah1.web.amu.edu.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

58. Foraminifera as marine pollution sensors with short-term to long-term responses

Principal Investigator: dr Michael Lintner
Host institution: Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.ing.pan.pl/pracownicy/michael-lintner/research-project-ncn-polonez

59. Duality Symmetry as a Fundamental Principle for σ-models

Principal Investigator: dr David Osten
Host institution: University of Wrocław
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/david-osten/home

60. Movement analysis of forest-dwelling avian predators: a novel bioindication method for evaluating functional heterogeneity in forest ecosystems

Principal Investigator: dr Ülo Väli
Host institution: University of Białystok
Project's website: www.raptors.uwb.edu.pl/

61. Enzyme Responsive Nanoscale Supramolecular Capsules with Application in Anticancer Drug Delivery

Principal Investigator: dr Venkateswarulu Mangili
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Project's website: www.arsgroup.amu.edu.pl/polonez-bis/

62. Сompositional design of the Pb-free double perovskite as a promising luminescence material

Principal Investigator: prof. dr Inna Ivashchenko
Host institution: Tadeusz Kościuszko Cracow University of Technology
Project's website: www.hdplm.net/

63. Automation of the Problem of Unification in Description Logics

Principal Investigator: dr hab. Barbara Joanna Morawska
Host institution: University of Opole
Project's website: www.unifdl.cs.uni.opole.pl

64. Calcium Carbonate encapsulated Casein Nanocarriers loaded with plant Nutrients as Novel nanocomposite fertilizer

Principal Investigator: dr Aniketkumar K Gade
Host institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Project's website: www.polonez-bis-nanoferti.umk.pl/pages/home/

65. Molecular insights into hypoxic tumors – for development of targeted cancer therapeutics

Principal Investigator: dr inż. Marco Deiana
Host institution: Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Project's website: www.lightg4life.pwr.edu.pl/

66. Unravelling and optimizing the photoisomerization dynamics of light-driven molecular rotary motors

Principal Investigator: dr Davide Accomasso
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/uw.edu.pl/polonezbis-lightdynamo

67. Fiscal Decentralisation–Institutional Quality–Human Capital and Carbon Emissions Nexus: A Comparative Study of G7 and E7 Economies

Principal Investigator: dr Taimoor Hassan
Host institution: University of Łódź
Project's website: www.uni.lodz.pl/fd-iq-hc

68. Plants as urban citizens: exploring possibilities for more-than-human flourishing in a metropolis (PLAURCI)

Principal Investigator: dr Anna Irmina Zadrożna
Host institution: University of Gdańsk
Project's website: www.plaurci.ug.edu.pl

69. In search of prediction errors representations

Principal Investigator: dr Jakub Michał Szewczyk
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.szewczyk-jakub.github.io/polonezbis/

70. Paleotsunami deposition as a key to understanding the tectonic and tsunamigenic behavior of the Sumatran subduction zone through time

Principal Investigator: dr Jędrzej Marcin Majewski
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Project's website: www.paleosuma.amu.edu.pl

71. The Moral Psychology of Social Comparison: Nature and Normativity

Principal Investigator: dr Wojciech Tomasz Kaftanski
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.incet.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/polonez-bis-the-moral-psychology

72. Distribution of Ticks and Carnivore Effects

Principal Investigator: dr Nicolas Serge Catherine De Pelsmaeker
Host institution: Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.distance-65.webselfsite.net

73. Singularities in calculus of variations and partial differential equations

Principal Investigator:dr Rémy Rodiac
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.scvpde.mimuw.edu.pl

74. Analysis of functional and taxonomic diversity of symbionts among euglenozoan protists

Principal Investigator:dr Daria Tashyreva
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.ibe.biol.uw.edu.pl/en/symbiozoans/

75. Deep volatiles cycle during subduction of the continental crust and crust-mantle interaction

Principal Investigator:dr Alessia Borghini
Host institution: AGH University of Science and Technology
Project's website: www.devol-alessiaborghini.my.canva.site/deep-volatiles-cycle-during-subduction-continental

76. Sepsis biomarkers sensitive and selective sensor by functional UiO-68 MOF@MXene composite electrode

Principal Investigator:dr Ranjith Kumar Deivasigamani
Host institution: The Silesian University of Technology
Project's website: www.polsl.pl/rjo22-cone/en/project-sepsis-diagnosis/

77. Development of Scalable Photochargeable Tungsten oxide/Tungstate Hetero-junction Photoanodes with Reversible Electron Storage for Solar Water Splitting Even at Night

Principal Investigator:dr Piyali Chatterjee
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.elektro.chemia.uj.edu.pl/polonez-bis-3

78. Deconstructing the Theodosian Code. Archives and collections of laws in the Later Roman Empire

Principal Investigator:dr Andrea Bernier
Host institution: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Project's website: www.sites.google.com/view/decode-lre/

79. Bicontinuous morphologies of liquid metal - block copolymer blends for soft materials with enhanced conductivity and stretchability

Principal Investigator: dr inż. Piotr Mocny
Host institution: University of Warsaw
Project's website: www.mocnyresearch.chem.uw.edu.pl

80. Electrical stimulation of Anterior Thalamic Nuclei for memory modulation

Principal Investigator: dr Maciej Michal Jankowski
Host institution: Gdansk University of Technology
Project's website: www.deepbrainlab.com

81. Co-translational protein folding in the light of ribosome evolution

Principal Investigator: dr Tomasz Włodarski
Host institution: Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.tomekwlodarski.com/polonez/

82. Exploring the role of resource dynamics in a global variation of forests reproduction

Principal Investigator: dr Valentin Journé
Host institution: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Project's website: www.journevalentin.wixsite.com/forestecol/s-projects-basic

83. Metacommunity Ecology of Tardigrades in Ephemeral Habitats

Principal Investigator: dr Matteo Vecchi
Host institution: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/polonez-bis.html

84. Understanding the molecular and ecological interactions between viruses and eriophyoid mites

Principal Investigator: dr inż. Tobiasz Zygmunt Druciarek
Host institution: Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Project's website: www.ino.sggw.edu.pl/mite-borne/

85. Identification and characterization of the mechanisms governing singlet oxygen-induced chloroplast retrograde signaling using model organism Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Principal Investigator: dr Pawel Brzezowski
Host institution: Jagiellonian University in Cracow
Project's website: www.chlamydoplast-signalling.project.uj.edu.pl/

89. Development of biowaste-derived carbon dots and metal-organic frameworks heterostructures to build a platform for printable biosensors

Principal Investigator: dr Disha Disha
Host institution: Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
Project's website: www.bmofsens.pl/

90. Soft sensing interfaces for monitoring plant nutrients and harmful algal blooms in aquatic eco-systems

Principal Investigator: dr Annalakshmi Muthaiah
Host institution: University of Łódź
Project's website: www.annalakshmimuthaiah.weebly.com/projects.html