National Centre for Nuclear Research

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. ----

J-PET has been presented in Cracow

Visualisation of the nymerical model of the J-PET detector (NCBJ)

2019.10.01 - Marek Pawłowski Today J-PET, a positron emission tomography scanner, designed and constructed in the Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics on the Jagiellonian University, has been presented in Cracow. Employees of National Centre for Nuclear Research were among the team resposible for this project. The device allows for utilizing completely new methods of body imaging based on multi-photon decays. So far, those types of decay have never been utilized for this purpose. ----