Recently, several University of Silesia scientists secured funding for 22 research projects from the National Science Centre under the OPUS, PRELUDIUM, and MINIATURA programmes. The projects that received funding include:
- Faculty of Science and Technology – 8 projects;
- Faculty of Law and Administration – 5 projects;
- Faculty of Humanities – 4 projects;
- Faculty of Natural Sciences – 4 projects;
- Faculty of Social Sciences – 1 project.
The total value of the obtained funding is PLN 13.7 million.
OPUS
- Ewa Gumul, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. (Faculty of Humanities) – CLESI 2: Cognitive Load and Explicitness in Simultaneous Interpreting: The Case of Professional Conference Interpreters Working in Spanish-English – PLN 1,562,009
- Damian Pierzak, PhD (Faculty of Humanities) – The Metaliterary Dimension of the Model Prayer in Ancient Poetry: Rhetoric and Intertextuality – PLN 157,858
- Patricia García-Montón González, PhD (Faculty of Humanities) – The Internationalisation of Art Historiography in the Polish People’s Republic. The Case of Jan Białostocki – PLN 1,674,219
- Tomasz Płociniczak, PhD, DSc (Faculty of Natural Sciences) – Comprehensive Analysis of the Impact of Pollutants Released from Rubber Particles on the Growth of Crops and on Selected Aspects of Environmental Safety – PLN 2,301,146
- Andrzej Woźnica, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. (Faculty of Natural Sciences) – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Diversity, Physiology and Toxicity of Prymnesium Parvum – PLN 419,938
- Witold Nowak, PhD (Faculty of Science and Technology) – The One Ring to Rule Them All – How Does Heme Affect Embryonic Development? – PLN 3,604,758
- Prof. Żaneta Wojnarowska (Faculty of Science and Technology) – From Dynamic Nanostructures to Macroscopic Functions: Modulation of Charge Transport and Mechanical Properties of Ionic Electrolytes via Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition – PLN 2,153,300
- Marlena Drapalska-Grochowicz, PhD (Faculty of Law and Administration) – Images of Unportrayed Relationships: A Sociological and Legal Analysis of Romantic Relationships of People with Intellectual Disabilities – PLN 456,265
- Marlena Jankowska-Augustyn, PhD, DSc (Faculty of Law and Administration) – Green Fashion – Sustainable TCLF Sector Through Patents and Innovation – PLN 285,880
PRELUDIUM
- Olga Rembielińska, MA (Faculty of Humanities) – Beyond the Console: Reinterpreting DJ Identity and Human-Machine Co-Creation in Algorave Culture – PLN 146,215
- Karolina Żółkiewicz (Faculty of Natural Sciences) – Completing the Missing Pieces of the Brassinosteroid Puzzle: Discovering the Yield Potential, Mechanisms of Stomatal Differentiation, and Genetic Regulation of Spike Development in Semi-Dwarf Brassinosteroid Mutants of Barley – PLN 121,258
- Jolanta Rajca, MSc Eng. (Faculty of Science and Technology) – New Bone Morphological and Nanobiomechanical Factors Influencing the Growth of the Cranial Vault in Children with Rare Skull Defects – PLN 209,574
- Miłosz Barłóg, MA (Faculty of Law and Administration) – Algorithmic Management and the Protection of Employee Rights – PLN 166,042
- Wiktoria Sikorska, MA (Faculty of Law and Administration) – A New Paradigm for the Protection of Geographical Indications for Non-agricultural Products in the EU: A Comparative Legal Analysis and a Proposal for a Control Model – PLN 175,537
MINIATURA 9
- Nora Salone, PhD (Faculty of Science and Technology) – Precise Studies of Hadron Production Using the Effects of CP Symmetry Breaking and their Polarisation in e+e- colliders within the BESIII Collaboration – PLN 29,810
- Biswajit Karmakar, PhD (Faculty of Science and Technology) – Towards a Fundamental Theory of Smell: Non-Holomorphic Modular Symmetry and Cosmological Tests – PLN 37,987
- Maciej Marcinowski-Prażmowski, PhD (Faculty of Law and Administration) – Fake AI signatures – PLN 22,436
- Barbara Leja, PhD (Faculty of Social Sciences) – From Idea to Institution: Stefan Mierzwa’s Communication Strategies for the Kościuszko Foundation – PLN 42,680
- Natalia Tomczewska-Popowycz, PhD (Faculty of Natural Sciences) – Towards Origins: Designing a Tool to Measure Tourist Motivation and Experiences – PLN 49,115
- Grzegorz Ziółkowski, PhD (Faculty of Science and Technology) – Development of an Artificial Intelligence Model for the Description of Micromagnetic Phenomena and Automatic Characterisation of Magnetic Materials – PLN 22,000
- Justyna Jurek-Suliga, PhD (Faculty of Science and Technology) – Application of New Polyether Polyols Resulting from the Reaction of Selected Monomers with Epoxy Rings Containing Two or More Functional Groups for the Production of Elastomers and Polyurethane Foams – PLN 37,004
- Agnieszka Stróż, PhD Eng. (Faculty of Science and Technology) – Research on the Possibility of Producing Layers of Oxide Nanotubes on Niobium and Zirconium for Potential Use in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine – PLN 35,321
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