Professors Jerzy Strzelczyk, Józef Barnaś and Bogdan Marciniec awarded the most presigious FNP Prize for their outstanding achievements or discoveries

AMU new InQbator awarded first prize for ‘Best Science Based Incubator'

Dr Maciej Misiorny, AMU Faculty of Physics, Institute of Mesoscopy Physics awarded the Scopus-Perspektywy Young Researcher Award and the laureate title
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Professors Jerzy Strzelczyk, Józef Barnaś and Bogdan Marciniec awarded the most presigious FNP Prize for their outstanding achievements or discoveries

The 2009 individual prize of the Foundation for Polish Science [FNP] for eminent researchers for their outstanding achievements or discoveries - regarded as the most prestigious of its kind in Poland - was awarded to:

Professor Jerzy Strzelczyk of AMU Faculty of History for his book Pióro w wątłych dłoniach. O twórczości kobiet w dawnych wiekach. Początki (od Safony do Hroswity) [Feather quill in weak palms. On women's writings in past times. The beginnings: from Sappho to Hrosvitha] on the intellectual contribution of women to the development of European civilisation.

Professor Józef Barnaś of AMU Faculty of Physics for his theoretical contribution to spintronics, in particular for explaining the giant magnetoresistance. In the late 1980s, Prof. Barnaś was part of the team that proposed the Camley-Barnaś semiclassical transport model that provided the theoretical underpinnings of giant magnetoresistance (GMR), a quantum effect exploited for the production of ever-smaller hard disk drives in laptops and mobile music players.

Professor Bogdan Marciniec of AMU Faculty of Chemistry for his discovery of new reactions and new catalysts for industrial production of organosilicon compounds. Professor Marciniec is also the 2009 winner of the Polish Market’s Honorary Pearl in the Science category.

Professor Andrzej Koliński of the University of Warsaw for the development and implementation of unique methods of predicting spatial protein structure.

The Foundation for Polish Science is an independent, self-financing non-profit organisation, established in 1991. Its mission is to support scientific community in Poland. It is the biggest non-governmental institution funding science in Poland.

Candidates for the Prize can be Polish scientists, as well as foreigners who have lived and worked in Poland for at least four years or who work in fields relating to Poland, entered by winners from the previous years and outstanding scientisits.

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AMU new InQbator awarded first prize for ‘Best Science Based Incubator'

Adam Mickiewicz University established a Technology Incubator of the Poznan Science and Technology Park (‘InQbator'). InQbator was recently awarded first prize for ‘Best Science Based Incubator' in the category of new incubators at the 8th Annual Incubator Conference and Award, held in Stockholm in November 2009.

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Dr Maciej Misiorny, AMU Faculty of Physics, Institute of Mesoscopy Physics awarded the laureate title in the Scopus-Perspektywy Young Researcher Competition

In 2010 Dr Misiony earned his PhD from AMU. His research was supervised by Professor Barnaś and the title of the thesis was  Charge and spin transport through magnetic molecules and supervided.