Below is the final program schedule for 23-24 October 2025
Day 1 (23th OCTOBER)
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening Ceremony |
| 9:15-11:15 | Session 1: Invited Speakers and EMCR Presentations |
• INVITED PRESENTATIONS
🕒 9:15-9:45
Edyta Łaskawiec (Social Activity Laboratory – Urban Lab 5D in Gliwice)
Water – a strategic resource in the climate crisis. How to talk about the water crisis to motivate action?
🕒 9:45-10:15
Marzena Smol (Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Circular Economy – a business approach to implementing environmental technologies in municipal wastewater treatment plants
🕒 10:15-10:45
Georgios Tsironis (Technical University of Crete/ETH Zurich)
Big Data and social media platforms as enablers of Circular Economy investigation
🕒 10:45-11:15
Rūta Ozola-Davidāne (Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies)
Preserving the irreplaceable: Nature-based solutions for phosphorus capture and reuse
• INVITED PRESENTATIONS
🕒 9:15-9:45
Jürgen Kurths (Humboldt University Berlin)
Climate tipping points and extreme events: on their formation and forecasting
🕒 9:45-10:15
Piotr Brzeski (Lodz University of Technology)
Sample-based methods used in an analysis of multistable dynamical systems
🕒 10:15-10:45
Magdalena Rucka (Gdańsk University of Technology)
Closing the loop: The mechanics of circular materials in civil engineering
🕒 10:45-11:15
Oleh Derkach (G.S. Pysarenko Institute for Problems of Strength of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Methods for Enhancing Vibrational Reliability and Damage Diagnostics of Composite Structural Elements in Turbomachinery
• INVITED PRESENTATIONS
🕒 9:15-9:45
Mathias Z. Strowski (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Somatostatin
🕒 9:45-10:15
Birger Svihus (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Feeding the world – the importance of farm animals for human health and a sustainable food system
🕒 10:15-10:45
Tomasz Kościółek (SANO Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine, International Research Foundation)
MICROBIOME BEYOND BORDERS – TOWARDS ROBUST MICROBIOME DIAGNOSTICS and THERAPIES
🕒 10:45-11:15
Marek Skrzypski (Poznań University of Life Sciences)
Adropin and its role in controlling adipose tissue and pancreatic beta cells – lessons from in vitro and in vivo studies
• INVITED PRESENTATIONS
🕒 9:15-9:45
Jakub Spiechowicz (University of Silesia)
Anomalous transport phenomena driven by active fluctuations
🕒 9:45-10:15
Mirosław Werwiński (Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Modeling of hard magnetic materials using DFT
🕒 10:15-10:45
Karolina H. Markiewicz (University of Bialystok)
Block Copolymers: Promising Materials for Biomedical Applications
🕒 10:45-11:15
Magdalena Osial (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
Nanotechnology at the interface of medicine and environment: functional applications of SPIONs
• INVITED PRESENTATIONS
🕒 9:15-9:45
Tomasz Panecki (Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences)
Early maps in modern world: Digital editions of cartographic historical sources
🕒 9:45-10:15
Stepan Stepanenko (Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie)
Byzantine – Rus relations: soft power and diplomacy
🕒 10:15-10:45
Karolina Hansen (University of Warsaw)
Foreign-accented speakers – not always discriminated against? Evidence from Poland and the UK
🕒 10:45-11:15
Monika Kostera (University of Warsaw)
Researching/writing differently
| 11:15-12:30 | Session 2: Flash Presentations |
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 11:15-11:30
Nisarg Mehta (Silesian University of Technology)
Quantification, characterisation and human health exposer from indoor microplastic
🕒 11:30-11:45
Yulduz Alimova (Kozminski University)
The Role of Venture Capital Funds in Green Startup Success in Central and Eastern European countries
🕒 11:45-12:00
Weronika Urbańska (Wrocław University of Science and Technology)
Sustainable and circular management of terrestrial and space raw materials
🕒 12:00-12:15
Magdalena Andrunik (Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Assessment of sustainable regeneration strategies for PFAS adsorbents
🕒 12:15-12:30
Adrianna Biedrzycka (Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
The concentration of metals as an indicator of the potential for further utilization of plant biomass
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 11:15-11:30
Suleman Saani (Tongji University)
CAFD-NET: A real-time traffic congestion detection model with cross-scale feature aggregation and diffusion
🕒 11:30-11:45
Suleman Saani (Tongji University)
Short-term traffic flow prediction methods for expressways considering stochastic congestion scenario
🕒 11:45-12:00
Kamil Wiitek (Silesian University of Technology)
Research into improving the environmental performance of engines fueled by hydrogen-doped conventional fuels
🕒 12:00-12:15
Ayesha Amjad (Silesian University of Technology)
The advanced ceramic materials for transport applications – especially zirconate based ceramic for the hot corrosion
🕒 12:15-12:30
Amjad Iqbal (Silesian University of Technology)
Hot corrosion analysis for the dual phase system Gd2Zr2O7 + ZrO2·Y2O3
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 11:15-11:30
Krzysztof Mikołajczyk (Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Decoy extracellular vesicles: hype or hope?
🕒 11:30-11:45
Julia Jarco (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology )
The impact of GPR84 modulation on neutrophil inflammatory responses: A new perspective on chronic pain mechanisms
🕒 11:45-12:00
Termeh Darvishzad (Warsaw University of Technology)
Electrochemical-Lossy Mode Resonance sensing of Dopamine with HaCaT cells
🕒 12:00-12:15
Shaoshan Mai (Medical University of Gdansk)
Graphene-oxide–erlotinib nanoconjugates suppress growth and angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer 2D and 3D models
🕒 12:15-12:30
Yevheniia Barboskina (Kyiv National University n.a.Taras Shevchenko)
From stress to inflammation: systemic consequences of peripubertal PTSD-like stress in male rats
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 11:15-11:30
Ami Patel (University of Warsaw)
Quantum theory of dark matter scattering
🕒 11:30-11:45
Ihtisham ul Haq (Silesian University of Technology)
Poly(vinyl alcohol)/poly(L-lysine)-functionalised urinary catheters with potential antibacterial and antifungal effects
🕒 11:45-12:00
William Mawuko Siegu (Lodz University of Technology)
Enhanced polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis: Bioreaction design and process optimization
🕒 12:00-12:15
Natalia Bosak (Cracow University of Technology)
New 1,3,5-triazine derivatives with potential cholinesterase inhibitory activity
🕒 12:15-12:30
Angelika Banaś (Silesian University of Technology)
Metal-organic-framework integrated electrodes as electrochemical biosensors for early sepsis detection
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 11:15-11:30
Muhamamd Nazir (Kozminski University)
Health economics
🕒 11:30-11:45
Tatiana Dudnik (Silesian University of Technology)
Adapting global supply chains in Poland and Europe to military shocks through business relocation
🕒 11:45-12:00
Inna Balahurovska (Silesian University of Technology / Sumy State University)
Humanistic approaches for the future of organizations
🕒 12:00-12:15
Marcin Gora (Kozminski University)
Knowledge alchemy in global projects: Transforming tacit insights into explicit capacity across borders
🕒 12:15-12:30
Nurlan Rahimli (Kozminski University)
Shifting grounds: How technological change reshapes global labour migration
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-16:30 | Session 2: Flash Presentations |
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 13:30-13:45
Karan Chabhadiya (Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) assumptions for evaluating wastewater treatment technologies
🕒 13:45-14:00
Paulina Pietrzyk-Thel (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Correlation between surface of nanoparticles and their functionality
🕒 14:00-14:15
Katarzyna Prus (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Reuse of PVC waste for aqueous dyes removal from aqueous solutions
🕒 14:15-14:30
Gaurav Pandharikar (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment)
Molecular mechanisms of tree microbe interfaces in forest ecosystems
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 13:30-13:45
Pradeep Padhamnath (AGH University of Krakow)
Development of composite electrospun PVDF fibres for improved piezoelectric, mechanical and thermal properties
🕒 13:45-14:00
Krzysztof Stopka (Purdue University)
A unified microstructure-sensitive model across low and high cycle fatigue for additively manufactured IN718
🕒 14:00-14:15
Duc Nguyen (Mien Trung University of Civil Engineering )
FRP composites in construction
🕒 14:15-14:30
Wiktor Kozłowski (Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, Łukasiewicz Research Network)
The use of drones in mountain rescue
🕒 14:30-14:45
Diyar Khan (Silesian University of Technology)
Comparative analysis of noise and ground vibration characteristics across different road surface types for sustainable urban infrastructure
🕒 14:45-15:00
Ved Prakash Dubey (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Pre-strain effects on yield surface and texture evolution in Ti-Cu bimetal
🕒 15:00-15:15
Saiful Islam Khan (Institute of Fluid-Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Copper doped semitransparent titania nanotube electrodes as a versatile platform for photoactivity, oxygent evolution, and energy storage
🕒 15:15-15:30
Maria Catarina de Oliveira Cavadas (University of Brasília)
Structural and energy production analysis of wind turbines under different operating conditions using QBLADE
🕒 15:30-15:45
Mateusz Pawłucki (Silesian University of Technology)
Overview on inflight icing challenges and research directions addressing them
🕒 15:45-16:00
Piotr Kowalczyk (Postdoctoral Independent Researcher)
Role of hysteresis in the mechanical response of granular materials to dynamic loading
🕒 16:00-16:15
Nikhil Tatke (Silesian University of Technology)
A hybrid AI-physics computational framework for accelerated PDE-constrained topology optimization
🕒 16:15-16:30
Mujahid Ali (Silesian University of Technology)
A comparative analysis of conventional and machine learning models for imbalanced travel mode choice data with an adjustable kernel SVM approach
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 13:30-13:45
Szymon Smołka (Silesian University of Technology)
Microstructurization of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxytiophene) films for biosensing applications
🕒 13:45-14:00
Ahmed Bilal (Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore)
Nuclear medicine
🕒 14:00-14:15
Eldar Mukhtarov (Łódź University of Technology )
Connecting wearables, caregivers and clinics with explainable AI
🕒 14:15-14:30
Łukasz Zambrowski (Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Structure-function characteristics of CemR regulators in Campylobacter jejuni and Arcobacter butzleri
🕒 14:30-14:45
Oskar Sosiński (Poznań University of Life Sciences)
LEAP2 modulates insulin expression in β-cells and pancreatic islets of rat
🕒 14:45-15:00
Abhijeet Singh (Uppsala University)
Bio-enhanced rock weathering: Study of the bio-chemo-physical mechanisms in fungal-citric acid system
🕒 15:00-15:15
Julia Kuliś (Cracow University of Technology)
Selective 5-HT6 receptor ligands from the N-(3,4-dihydroquinazolin-2-yl)naphthalene-1-sulfonamide group as a potential therapy in the treatment of CNS tumors
🕒 15:15-15:30
Aleksandra Drach (Cracow University of Technology)
Synthesis of new n-(arylalkyl)-3,4-dihydroquinazolin-2-amines targeted at inhibiting acetylcholinesterase activity
🕒 15:30-15:45
Issam Thamer (Lodz University of Technology)
Sustainable extraction techniques for functional biopolymers with improved antibacterial features
• FLASH PRESENTATIONS
🕒 13:30-13:45
Krystyna Maslowska-Jarzyna (University of Warsaw)
Anion transport in biologically relevant lipid mixtures
🕒 13:45-14:00
Natalia Baka (Cracow University of Technology)
Nanographene in hydrogels – impact on matrix properties
Day 2 (24th OCTOBER)
| 9:00-9:10 | Introductory words |
| 9:10-10:50 | Session 3: Funding and career opportunities in Poland, EU |
| 9:10–9:30 | Bogna Hryniszyn (Polish Academy of Sciences, Office of International Cooperation) |
| 9:30-9:50 | Anna Koteja (National Science Centre) |
| 9:50-10:10 | Piotr Serafin (National Agency for Academic Exchange) |
| 10:10-10:30 | Radosław Kwapiszewski (Foundation for Polish Science) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Katarzyna Dąbrowska (National Agency for Research and Development) |
| 10:50-11:15 | Q&A session on funding opportunities |
| 11:15-12:30 | Discussion panel – Why scientist leave academia? Anna Maria Górska (Kozminski University) |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-14:30 | Discussion panel on academic freedom Moderators: Andrzej Katunin (Silesian University of Technology), David Marlevi (Karolinska Institutet / Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Dawid Rogacz (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan) | |
| Helen Eenmaa (University of Tartu) | |
| Marcel Tarbier (Uppsala University) | |
| Racha Kirakosian (University of Freiburg) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Closing Ceremony and Awards Announcements |
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