Your PhD at IChF: the recruitment to the Warsaw-4-PhD School launches on May 6!

The Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS (IChF) offers full doctoral studies as part of the Warsaw PhD School in Natural and BioMedical Sciences (Warsaw-4-PhD). Founded in 2019, the Warsaw-4-PhD School gathers 9 Warsaw scientific institutions which run PhD programs in cooperation with each other. The school offers interdisciplinary education in 4 scientific disciplines: biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine. Each institution trains doctoral students in its leading scientific field. Recruitment for doctoral studies takes place three times a year.

The next round of recruitment opens on May 6! We encourage all potential candidates to go ahead and contact the coordinators of their project of interest in advance to find out more details! There is a possibility to become our intern for short period (preferably 1-3 months) – the internship is paid. Please contact the project supervisors directly.

Currently, our Institute offers eight research projects to pursue at a doctoral studies level:

Synthesis of core-shell nanoparticles for chemosensing and electrosynthesis. Supervisor: dr hab. Piyush Sharma, Institute’s Professor. Contact: psharma@ichf.edu.pl.
Comprehensive, multimodal profiling of chromatin states and gene expression in single cells. Supervisor: Prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski. Contact: mwojtkowski@ichf.edu.pl. Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Marcin Tabaka. Contact: mtabaka@ichf.edu.pl.
Interactions mediated by fluctuating medium in and out-of equilibrium. Supervisor: Prof. dr Anna Maciołek. Contact: amaciolek@ichf.edu.pl.
Vascular tissue engineering on granular scaffolds: experiments and modelling. Supervisor: Piotr Garstecki. Contact: garstecki@ichf.edu.pl. Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Jan Guzowski. Contact: jguzowski@ichf.edu.pl
Innovative Piezophotocatalytic Hybrid Materials for Biomass-Inspired Compound Transformations. Supervisor: Prof. dr hab. eng. Juan Carlos Colmenares Quintero. Contact: jcarloscolmenares@ichf.edu.pl.
Redox processes in nanoscale. Supervisor: Prof. dr hab. Marcin Opałło. Contact: mopallo@ichf.edu.pl. Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Wojciech Nogala. Contact: wnogala@ichf.edu.pl.
Application of the molecularly imprinted polymer films in electrochemical surface plasmon resonance based sensing. Supervisor: dr hab. Piyush Sharma, Institute’s Professor. Contact: psharma@ichf.edu.pl. Auxiliary Supervisor: dr inż. Maciej Cieplak. Contact: mcieplak@ichf.edu.pl.
Microfluidic-assisted bioprinting with artificial intelligence tools: towards an atlas for modelling in vitro human biology. Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski Contact: mwojtkowski@ichf.edu.pl. Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Marco Costantini. Contact: mcostantini@ichf.edu.pl.

Important information:

Admission to the Doctoral School is free.
There is no fee for studying at the Doctoral School.
The academic year starts on October 1st and lasts until September 30th of the following calendar year.
For details, please check Admission Rules for the particular academic year in Documents tab.
Candidates who do not hold a Master's, Master of Engineering, or equivalent degree, but will obtain it by the end of the admission process are allowed to apply to the School. In such a case, a diploma or written declaration confirming graduation with a Master's or equivalent degree is required by the date of completion of the admission process.

Admissions schedule

Candidates apply online to the Doctoral School for the academic year 2024-2025 by submitting the required documents. Here are the most relevant dates for the three offered admission rounds:

Announcement of the recruitment: