MINIATURY dla naukowców UŁ

We already know the results of the 6th MNIATURA call. On the basis of the decision of the experts of the National Science Centre, funding of PLN 720 321 was awarded to 23 researchers for implementation of their research projects. As a result University of Lodz ranks 2nd in the country in terms of the number of awarded projects. Congratulations!

The winners from the University of Lodz include:

  • Dr Bartosz Caban (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection): Types of posterior hypothalamic theta rhythm in relation to rats behaviour in comparison with hippocampal theta rhythm (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 44 682),
  • Dr Marta Baraniak (Faculty of Management): The efficiency of organic farms in the context of the fragmentation of Polish agriculture – a pilot study (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 9 744),
  • Dr Klaudia Zielińska-Lont (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Consequences of extraordinary events for financial stability in the European Union (funds allocated for the consultancy visit, PLN 9 416)
  • Dr Izabela Stachowicz (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Consequences of extraordinary events for financial stability in the European Union (funds allocated for the consultancy visit, PLN 9 416),
  • Dr Tomasz Sosnowski (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Quality of earnings reported by newly listed companies - problems of evaluation and conceptualization of research (funds allocated for the scientific traineeship),
  • Dr Ewa Feder-Sempach (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): International risk factors in global equity markets. The impact of unprecedented events on investment portfolio risk-return tradeoff (funds allocated for the research visit, PLN 23 914),
  • Dr Paulina Wigner (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection): The role of oxidative and nitrative stress and inflammation in the molecular mechanism of urolithiasis and bladder cancer development (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 47 410),
  • Dr Kamil Kowalski (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): American industrial relations between 1933 and 1955 from the perspective of new institutional economics (funds allocated for search (library and archive search), PLN 44 559),
  • Dr Joanna Bednarska-Kociołek (Faculty of Philology): Image of Lebensborn e.V. in Nazi speeches 1935-1945 (funds allocated for search – library and archive search, PLN 12 896),
  • Dr Sujoy Das (Faculty of Chemistry): Design and synthesis of bioactive fluorescent organometallic complexes (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 49 680),
  • Dr Magdalena Rek-Woźniak (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Authorized memory of industrial conflict in Finland and Poland: a comparative study (funds allocated for the research visit, PLN 42 460),
  • Dr Malwina Kawka (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection): Searching of interactions of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus with human proteins that function as soluble PRRs receptors (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 49 415),
  • Dr Dariusz Halabowski (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection): Preliminary study of cryptic diversity of Sphaeriidae in springs (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 49 995),
  • Dr Ewa Linek (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Cinema in selected countries of the Middle East in the first decades of the 21st century (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 33 164),
  • Dr Piotr Nowakowski (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science): The algebraic difference of Cantor sets, and achievement sets of series (funds allocated for the research visit, PLN 8 580),
  • Dr Marek Molenda (Faculty of Philology): Setting new annotation and transcription standards for research into the process of EFL lexicogrammatical consultation in the Web 2.0 environment. (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 18 865),
  • Dr Michael Green (Faculty of Philosophy and History): "Privacy" in the Early Modern Period: Sources for Its Research and Their Specifics (funds allocated for search – library and archive search, PLN 49 402),
  • Dr Michał Comporek (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Impression management or information preparation? Motives and paths of earnings management in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 24 354),
  • Dr Kamila Żukowska (Faculty of Philology): Elżbieta Glaize, the Late-Enlightenment Lviv Poet - Research Reconnaissance (funds allocated for search – library and archive search, PLN 17 996),
  • Dr Łukasz Kozar (Faculty of Economics and Sociology): Social and professional reintegration in the perspective of the green transition of social cooperatives (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 38 500),
  • Dr Monika Anna Staniaszek-Kik (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection): The cultivation of mosses in the form of mats (funds allocated for preliminary/pilot studies, PLN 9 845),
  • Dr Andrzej Kompa (Faculty of Philosophy and History): Martyrium of Sts. Karpos and Papylos in Constantinople (Istanbul), its frescoes and their identification (funds allocated for the research visit, PLN 19 979),
  • Dr Edyta Masierek (Faculty of Geographical Sciences): Urban areas with special development needs in Berlin on the way to stabilization and changes - research visit (funds allocated for the research visit, PLN 22 541).

The main objective of the MINIATURA call is to finance research activities for the purpose of a future research project to be submitted to an NCN call as well as other national and international calls. Funds of 5,000 PLN to 50,000 PLN can be obtained under the call to finance a research activity to be carried out over a period of up to 12 months.

Science and Research at UniLodz

Source: Science Centre, University of Lodz
Edit: Promotion Centre, University of Lodz