Excellence Initiative - Research University

Academia Copernicana
Interdisciplinary Doctoral School

Contact ul. Bojarskiego 1, 87-100 Toruń
tel.: +48 56 611-26-79
e-mail: academia.copernicana@umk.pl

Achievements

Grants4NCUStudents

10th edition (2025) – Life sciences:

  • Drashti Parmar (individual doctoral student application for the visit)
  • Marcin Rygielski (individual doctoral student application for the visit)
  • Weronika Nowak (individual doctoral student application for the visit)

10th edition (2025) – Physical Sciences and Engineering:

  • Paula Alejandra Bautista Arcila (individual doctoral student application for the visit)
  • Misha Khalid (individual doctoral student application for the visit)
  • Ali Abouais (individual doctoral student application for the visit)
  • Abdallah Guerchi (individual doctoral student application for the visit)

Mobility competition for doctoral students

7th edition (2025) – Science and Technology:

  • Sharmin Sultana, MA

7th edition (2025) – Life Sciences:

  • Paul Le Garff, MA
  • Misha Khalid, MA
  • Abdallach Guerchi, MA

National Science Centre PRELUDIUM grant

23rd edition (2024)

  • M.Sc. Eng. Marcin Rygielski – for the implementation of the project entitled “Functional characterization of AtSSP5 and AtHAD4 proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana as potential homologs of yeast phosphatase NEM1.”

Internships 

  • M.Sc. Adam Fiderewicz – internship at the Developmental and Cell Biology of Plants Group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), 1.04-28.04.2025
  • M.Sc. Aditi Singh – internship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1.02-28.02.2025

Awarded conference presentations

  • Sharmin Sultana – 1st poster presentation prize at the 1st International Meeting on RNA & RNases, Barcelona (Spain), 3-4.07.2025
  • Bartosz Tyrcha – poster prize at the New Challenges for Ab Initio Theory in Molecular Science conference, Warsaw (Poland), 1-5.07.2025
  • Mateusz Witkowski – poster prize at the New Challenges for Ab Initio Theory in Molecular Science conference, Warsaw (Poland), 1-5.07.2025
  • Vasantha Kumar Kathirvelu – 3rd prize in the competition for the best oral presentation at the 18th Copernican Doctoral Students’ Seminar in Torun (Poland), 26-27.06.2025
  • Mohanad Eid – award for the most interesting poster at the XVIII Rzeszów Conference of Young Physicists, Rzeszów (Poland), 29-30.05.2025

Awards

  • Delaram Jahani – Mitacs Globalink Research Award by the Government of Canada to conduct collaborative research under the supervision of Prof. Stijn De Baerdemacker at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton (2025)