I ROUND – COMPLETED

2022/2023 RECRUITMENT SCHEDULE

List of submitted research projects:

No.	Scientific discipline	Supervisor(s)	Foreign supervisor	Auxiliary supervisor	Title of the doctoral project
1	biological sciences	dr hab. Marcin Woch, prof. UMK			Changes in vegetation and soil properties in maritime sand dunes habitats due to invasion of Rosa rugosa Thunb
2	biological sciences	prof. dr hab. Katarzyna Hrynkiewicz		dr Bliss Ursula Furtado Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	A salty face of endophytic bacteria and fungi in alleviating the stress of grass salinity
3	chemical sciences	prof. Pharm Dr. Petr Zimčík, Ph.D., Charles University, Czech Republic		dr Marta Ziegler-Borowska Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	New biopolymer-based drug nanocarriers for photodynamic therapy
4	chemical sciences	prof. dr hab. Alina Sionkowska	prof. Silvia Vicini University of Genoa, Italy		Fabrication of new materials based on polymer and biopolymer blends for potential biomedical applications
5	chemical sciences	prof. dr hab. Jerzy Łukaszewicz	dr Athanasios Chatzitakis University of Oslo, Norway		Composite materials containing perovskite metal oxides as catalyst for electrocatalytic energy conversion
6	chemical sciences	prof. dr hab. Jerzy Łukaszewicz		dr Piotr Kamedulski Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	Innovative solutions for the introduction of heteroatoms and transition metals to porous carbon matrixes
7	economics and finance	dr hab. Peter Molnar, prof. UMK			Sentiment and risk: cryptocurrencies and traditional financial assets
8	fine arts and art conservation	dr hab. Sławomir Kamiński, prof. UMK		dr Maria Cunha Matos Lopes Pinto Leao Aguiar Escola das Artes Universidade Católica Portuguesa Porto, Portugal	Jonasz Stern’s multi-material works – technology research, selected conservation issues and new perspectives on preservation
9	legal sciences	dr hab. Marcin Kilanowski, prof. UMK		prof. dr Alberto Ghibellini University of Turin	Rule of law and catholic social teaching. Conflict or agreement?
10	linguistics	dr hab. Sławomir Wacewicz, prof. UMK			Facilitating Online Language Learning with Computer-based Technology
11	medical sciences	prof. dr hab. Rafał Czajkowski dr hab. Mateusz Jagielski, prof. UMK			High frequency ultrasound – a third eye in the assessment of basal cell carcinoma
12	physical sciences	dr hab. Beata Derkowska-Zielińska, prof. UMK	prof. Georges Boudebs University of Angers, France		New pyrazoline derivatives as potential materials for practical application in nonlinear optical devices
13	physical sciences	dr hab. Katharina Boguslawski, prof. UMK	prof. Dr. Örs Legeza Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary		Eclectic theoretical design of novel light-harvesting materials
14	physical sciences	dr hab. Paweł Tecmer, prof. UMK	dr Paul Andrew Johnson Département de chimie, Université Laval, Cananda		pCCD-based methods for large scale modeling of organic solar cells
15	physical sciences	dr hab. Piotr Żuchowski, prof. UMK		dr Iulia Emilia Brumboiu Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	Development of Theoretical X-ray Spectroscopy Tools for the Characterization of Organic Molecules used in Photovoltaics
16	physical sciences	dr hab. Piotr Żuchowski, prof. UMK		dr Heribert Reis Institute of Chemical Biology Athens, Greece	Supramolecular tuning of photophysical properties of squaraines with halogen and chalcogen bonds
17	physical sciences	prof. dr hab. Ireneusz Grabowski		dr Eduardo Fabiano Italian National Research Council and Italian Institute of Technology Lecce, Italy	A new exchange-correlation functionals for weak and strong-iteration limits
18	physical sciences	dr hab. Karol Strzałkowski, prof. UMK	prof. dr hab. Abdelowahed HAJJAJI, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Maroko		Optical, structural and thermal properties of wide gap ZnTe and ZnS bulk crystals grown by Bridgman technique
19	physical sciences	prof. dr hab. Sebastian Maćkowski			Plasmonic molecular chirality: from designing nanostructures to advanced fluorescence microscopy studies