Your PhD at IChF: applications for the 3rd round of recruitment of the Warsaw-4-PhD School are being accepted until January 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.

We are offering 13 PhD projects with 15 available vacancies, and 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.

Here are the research projects offered by IChF in the current round, to pursue at a doctoral studies level:

1. 3.1 The SERS- based Theranostics for Proteomics Analyses of Salivary Gland Tumours Extracellular Vesicles – towards personalized oncology (Prof. Agnieszka Michota-Kamińska, PhD Dsc.) Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Michota-Kamińska. Contact: akaminska@ichf.edu.pl
2. 3.2 Light-induced photoreceptor morphological changes – Towards objective and impartial diagnostics in ophthalmology (Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski, PhD Dsc. / Humberto Fernandes, PhD) 2 places available. Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski. Contact: mwojtkowski@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Humberto Fernandes. Contact: hfernandes@ichf.edu.pl
3. 3.3 Ultra-high-throughput single-microbe profiling to study microbiome (Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski, PhD Dsc. / Marcin Tabaka, PhD) Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski. Contact: mwojtkowski@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Marcin Tabaka. Contact: mtabaka@ichf.edu.pl
4. 3.4 Spatial Determinants of Immunotherapy Resistance in Cancer (Prof. Bożena Kamińska-Kaczmarek, PhD Dsc. / Marcin Tabaka, PhD) Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Bożenia Kamińska-Kaczmarek. Contact: b.kaminska@nencki.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Marcin Tabaka. Contact: mtabaka@ichf.edu.pl
5. 3.5 Observation of the visual cycle in vivo using fluorescence with two-photon excitation (Prof. Maciej Wojtkowski, PhD Dsc. / Piotr Kasprzycki, PhD) Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Maciej Wojtkowski. Contact: mwojtkowski@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Piotr Kasprzycki. Contact: pkasprzycki@ichf.edu.pl
6. 3.6 Photoswitching under dual confinement: a new strategy for the light regulation of functional host-guest systems (Volodymyr Sashuk, PhD Dsc.) Supervisor: dr hab. Volodymyr Sashuk, profesor instytutu. Contact: vsashuk@ichf.edu.pl
7. 3.7 Application of the molecularly imprinted polymer films in electrochemical surface plasmon resonance based sensing (Piyush Sindhu Sharma, PhD Dsc. / Maciej Cieplak, PhD Eng.) Supervisor: dr hab. Piyush Sindhu Sharma, profesor instytutu. Contact: psharma@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr inż. Maciej Cieplak. Contact: mcieplak@ichf.edu.pl
8. 3.8 Synthesis of core-shell nanoparticles for chemosensing and electrosynthesis (Piyush Sindhu Sharma, PhD Dsc.) Supervisor: dr hab. Piyush Sindhu Sharma, profesor instytutu. Contact: psharma@ichf.edu.pl
9. 3.9 New catalytical protocols of conductive polymer synthesis and application of these polymers in chemosensing (Piyush Sindhu Sharma, PhD Dsc. / Maciej Cieplak, PhD Eng.) 2 places available. Supervisor: dr hab. Piyush Sindhu Sharma, profesor instytutu. Contact: psharma@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr inż. Maciej Cieplak. Contact: mcieplak@ichf.edu.pl
10. 3.10 Development of analytical methods for the determination of selected contaminants in dairy products using electrochemical multisensors platform in combination with molecularly imprinted polymer films (Piyush Sindhu Sharma, PhD Dsc. / Krzysztof Noworyta, PhD Eng.) Supervisor: dr hab. Piyush Sindhu Sharma, profesor instytutu. Contact: psharma@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr inż. Krzysztof Noworyta. Contact: knoworyta@ichf.edu.pl
11. 3.11 Redox processes in nanoscale (Prof. Marcin Opałło, PhD Dsc. / Wojciech Nogala, PhD) Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Marcin Opałło. Contact: mopallo@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr Wojciech Nogala. Contact: wnogala@ichf.edu.pl
12. 3.12 Study of spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrafast fiber lasers (Yuriy Stepanenko, PhD Dsc. / Katarzyna Krupa, PhD Eng.) Supervisor: dr hab. Yuriy Stepanenko, profesor instytutu. Contact: ystepanenko@ichf.edu.pl Auxiliary Supervisor: dr inż. Katarzyna Krupa. Contact: kkrupa@ichf.edu.pl
13. 3.13 Oxygenation processes of organometallics with non-redox active metal centers (Prof. Janusz Lewiński, PhD Dsc. Eng. / Adam Kubas, Phd Dsc.) Supervisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Janusz Lewiński / dr hab. Adam Kubas, profesor instytutu. Contact: jlewinski@ichf.edu.pl, akubas@ichf.edu.pl

Important information:

• Admission to the Doctoral School is free.
• There is no fee for studying at the Doctoral School.
• 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 current, third admission round:

Announcement of the recruitment:

• 05 December 2024

Admissions deadlines:

• from 19 December 2024 to 06 January 2025 

Interviews of candidates are held:

• from 27 January 2025 to 30 January 2025 

The results will be announced:

• after 31 January 2025

Candidates who are selected for the second stage of the recruitment process will be invited for interviews by email.

The Recruitment Policy of the Warsaw-4-PhD School is available at this link: https://warsaw4phd.eu/yleerdad/2022/09/Recruitment-Policy-2022_FIN.pdf.

More information about the Warsaw-4-PhD School is available on: https://warsaw4phd.eu/en/.

The poster features Cássia Corso Silva, MSc from the Laser Centre (https://ichf.edu.pl/en/groups/laser-centre), which integrates the Institute’s Excellence Cluster 2 ‘Photonics and light-driven processes’.  Photographer: Dr. Karol Karnowski.  Graphic designer: Władysław Żolik.