Aktualności | Faculty of Chemistry at the Gdańsk University of Technology

The Board of the Polish Society of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis named after W. Świętosławski (PTKAT) announced the results of the competition for the award for scientific achievements in the field of calorimetry and thermal analysis for young scientists. The award is granted once every 3 years to one person, and the candidate is selected in a national competition, which is addressed to employees and doctoral students of universities or other research units who are under 35 years of age.

On 12 September, workshops and lectures were held at the Faculty of Chemistry of Gdańsk University of Technology as part of the meeting: HUMAN MILK LIPIDOMIC ANALYSIS WORKSHOP. This is the fourth event at the Faculty of Chemistry co-financed by COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research), as part of the CA 19105 “EpiLipidNet” action, and the first to deal with the topic of human milk lipidomics.

The prestigious World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 list, developed by Stanford University in cooperation with Elsevier, includes a total of 62 scientists from Gdańsk University of Technology. There are as many as 20 from the Faculty of Chemistry.

Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry according to data for their entire career:

Human milk lipids analysis: methodology of sampling, storage, isolation and determination.

As part of the PRELUDIUM 22 competition, organized by the National Science Center, young scientists from our Faculty received grants to finance their projects:

On 21-24 of May this year, employees and PhD students of the Faculty of Chemistry from the Department of Polymer Technology were exhibitors at the 28th International Fair of Plastics and Rubber Processing PLASTPOL in Kielce.

This was part of the Tadeusz Pompowski’s Award, and the team consisted of: M. Sienkiewicz, PhD, Eng., P. Gnatowski, MSc, Eng., E. Piłat, MSc, Eng. and Justyna Kucińska-Lipka, PhD, DSc, Eng.

Professor Swietlana Białłozór was born on 28 June 1932 in Vilnius, which she had to leave after the war. She continued her education in Gorzów, where she graduated from high school in 1951. In the same year, she began her studies at the Faculty of Chemistry of Gdańsk University of Technology, graduating with a master's degree in engineering on 27 May 1956. After graduation, she was employed at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography (1956-1958).

Annual scholarships for outstanding young scientists who are at the beginning of their scientific careers and have already documented outstanding achievements in their field of research were awarded as part of the 32nd edition of the competition. Among the 100 laureates there are two scientists from our Faculty: Jan Alfuth, PhD, Eng., and Szymon Dudziak, MSc, Eng.