Interdisciplinary Research Grants – results of the 1st edition of the competition
Interdisciplinary Research Grants is a new basic research competition that is addressed to all researchers. The main objective of the competition is the cooperation of scientists from the University of Lodz who specialise in different fields and scientific disciplines. There are 4 winning projects in the category of Social sciences, 2 in Humanities and 5 in the Natural sciences.
Humanities:
Philosophers ask about street art. Philosophical and legal foundations of an interdisciplinary discussion about the concept and values of art in public space
- dr hab. Cichosz Anna, UL Professor/linguistics
The linguistic image of woman in Old English prose
Social sciences:
- dr hab. Wiśniewski Szymon/socio-economic geography
Changes in the accessibility and load on the road network in the urban transport system as a result of a flash flood - on the example of Łódź
- Dr Łaszkiewicz Edyta/socio-economic geography
Attached to or through green spaces? Connecting green spaces and place attachment to better understand human–nature relationships
- Dr Nalej Marta/socio-economic geography
The conditioning of landscape perception with rooting in space: The use of Virtual Reality (VR) tools in landscape visual attractiveness study
- Dr Góralska Renata/pedagogics
Commitment and exhaustion as (un)expected effects of an academic teacher's emotional labor
Natural sciences:
- prof. dr hab. Nowakowski Andrzej/computer science
Development of approximate optimal control method for constructing machine learning technics to determine factors which influence advance in osteoporosis and risk of fractures
- Dr Krukowski Paweł/physical sciences
Stable chiral radicals on metallic surfaces: synthesis, imaging, and chemical identification with single molecule resolution
- dr hab. Plażuk Damian, UL Professor/chemical sciences
Low-molecular weight tubulin polimerisation inhibitors – a chance for the organometallic final nail in the coffin of cancer?
- dr hab. Półtorak Łukasz. UL Professor/chemical sciences
Liposomes decorated in situ with AuNPs for targeted anticancer therapy
- dr hab. Stączek Paweł, UL Professor/biological sciences
Mechanism of action and potential use of new organometallic derivatives of fluoroquinolones against bacterial biofilm and bacteria with slowed metabolism
Grants for Young Researchers – results of the 3rd edition of the competition
Grants for Young Researchers is a competition for research projects conducted by young scientists who want to implement their research ideas in any scientific discipline. The programme is devoted to basic and applied research and supporting mobility of young scientists. The aim of the competition is to activate the community of young scientists and to support their development. There are 7 winning projects in the discipline of Natural sciences, one project in Humanities and 6 young researchers will be able to implement their research in the discipline of Social sciences.
Humanities:
- Dr Bogusławski Marcin/philosophy
Cognitive and non-cognitive humanities and the axiological nature of acts of understanding
Social sciences:
- Dr Tyc Aneta/law
Towards the EU-Australia and the EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreements: The Assessment of Labour Provisions
- Dr Szymańska Paulina/psychology
Parental technoference and inter- and intrapersonal context of motherhood
- Dr Trzcińska Kamila/economics and finance
Inequalities of Income and Wealth in Europe and North America
- Dr Bunio-Mroczek Paulina/sociology
Childhood in refuge. Experience of forced migration from the perspectives of children and their grown-up caretakers
- Dr Kowalczyk Zuzanna/political science and public administration
Democracy in Central American region: the present state and its perspectives – case study of Costa Rica
The responsibility of a state under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 – an attempt at a new interpretation of the treaty in the light of Raphael Lemkin’s concept in the context of historical Soviet and contemporary Russian crimes in Ukraine
Natural sciences:
- Dr Rizwan Mohammad, UL Professor/dyscyplina nauki chemiczne
Smartphone based Nanoimmunochips for Non-Invasive Detection of Cancer Biomarkers
- Dr Mucciolo Serena/biological sciences
Comparative and integrative approach to assess the osmoregulation of two Ponto-Caspian invasive species focusing on two transmembrane proteins.
- Dr Nowakowski Piotr/mathematics
Achievement sets of series in R2
- Dr Mamos Tomasz/biological sciences
Biodiversity of Springs from DNA Barcoding Perspective: Reference Library for Future Monitoring Schemes (BioSprings)
- Dr Matusik Radosław/mathematics
Noncooperative game between COVID-19 transmission, vaccinations and budget
- Dr Hikisz Paweł/biological sciences
Biological activity of condensed pyrazoline derivatives with chromanone or flavanone: evaluation of molecular anticancer mechanisms
- Dr Frydrych Małgorzata/Earth and related environmental sciences
What are the reasons for morphological and sedimentological diversity of eskers? Research illustrated with the examples of Poland and Finland
Source: Science Centre, University of Lodz
Edit: Promotion Centre, University of Lodz