I.1.1 / IV.1.1. Mentoring Programme – edition 2

By the decision of the Programme Manager, the following applications have so far received funding:

• Title of the proposal: Visit by Erin Saupe (University of Oxford) to receive mentorship on paleo-biogeographical methods and foster further cooperation
  Mentor: Erin Saupe, Associate Professor of Palaeobiology, Department of Earth Science, University of Oxford
  Project manager: dr Karina Vanadzina
  Unit of UW hosting the mentor: Faculty of Biology
  Allocated funds: 7 850 PLN
  Track: 1 – POB I: Science for the Planet
• Title of the proposal: WNE UW and Humboldt University / Block Research Center joint research
  Expert: prof. Wolfgang Karl Härdle, BRC Blockchain Research Center, School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  Project manager: dr hab. Piotr Wójcik, prof. ucz.
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Economic Sciences
  Allocated funds: 4 640,00 PLN
  Track: 3 – POB III: The Challenge of Petabytes
• Title of the proposal: Understanding factors facilitating and hindering refugees’ adaptation, health and resilience in different contexts
  Expert: professor Michaela Hynie, York University, Toronto, Canada
  Project manager: dr hab. Aleksandra Grzymała-Kazłowska, prof. ucz.
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Sociology
  Allocated funds: 11 997,00 PLN
  Track: 5 – POB V: Responding to Global Challenges
• Title of the proposal: Regulation of glial cell and macrophage activity after ischaemic stroke: new research directions
  Expert: professor Christoph Harms, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Experimental Neurology
  Project manager: dr Anna Malik, Faculty of Biology
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Biology
  Allocated funds: 7 750 PLN
  Track: 1 – POB I: Science for the Planet
• Title of the proposal: Molecular lnsights into Cancer Development
  Expert: Ph. D. Charbel Darido, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
  Project manager: dr hab. Tomasz Wilanowski, Faculty of Biology
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Biology
  Allocated funds: 8 150 PLN
  Track: 1 – POB I: Science for the Planet
• Title of the proposal: Application of mathematical methods in the study of chiral molecules
  Expert: prof. Erica Flapan, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA
  Project manager: dr hab. Piotr Garbacz, Faculty of Chemistry
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Chemistry
  Allocated funds: 12 000 PLN
  Track: 2 – POB II: Beyond Micro and Macro Worlds
• Title of the proposal: Modelling the structure of liquid crystalline materials
  Expert: prof. Jonathan V. Selinger, Department of Physics, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, USA
  Project manager: prof. dr hab. Ewa Górecka, Faculty of Chemistry
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Chemistry
  Allocated funds: 11 300 PLN
  Track: 2 – POB II: Beyond Micro and Macro Worlds
• Title of the proposal: Model of the ferroelectric nematic phase
  Expert: prof. Nataša Vaupotič, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor (FNM UM), Slovenia
  Project manager: dr hab. Damian Pociecha, Faculty of Chemistry
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Faculty of Chemistry
  Allocated funds: 8 300 PLN
  Track: 2 – POB II: Beyond Micro and Macro Worlds
• Title of the proposal: Study of involvement of SeCys in selenoproteins in the prefenrential binding metallodrung in new therapeutical approaches and heavy metals in context of detoxification of mercury in environment
  Expert: prof. Luisa Ronga, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physical-Chemistry for the Environment and Materials (IPREM)
  Project manager: prof. dr hab. Ewa Bulska, Biological and Chemical Research Centre
  Unit of UW hosting the expert: Biological and Chemical Research Centre
  Allocated funds: 11 850 PLN
  Track: 1 – POB I: Science for the Planet