Our aim is to provide an exciting and enriching experience for all attendees, showcasing the latest advancements, discussions, and innovations in the field of electrospinning.
The city’s rich history and modern amenities serve as the perfect backdrop for this scientific dialogue.
We anticipate a fruitful exchange of ideas that will advance the field of electrospinning.
Martyna Polak with Short-Term Scientific Mission of Aerogels COTS Action at Politecnico di Torino under the supervision of dr Marta Gallo in the research group of professor Barbara Onida (SMAC – SUPERCRITICAL FLUID AND MATERIALS CHEMISTRY) (09.10-20.10.2023, Turin, Italy). Dr Stoja Milovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) presenting a lecture about „Application of supercritical carbon dioxide for the processing of polymers in the form of nanofibers, textiles, films, foams, and aerogels” at AGH University of Krakow. (11th, October 2023).Martyna Polak during a „Kuźnia Młodych Talenów” organized by Academy of Young Scholar Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, Poland. (8th – 10th September, 2023) Urszula Stachewicz, Kasia Kurek and Daniel P. Ura during a MATUR project meeting in VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. (6th September, 2023)sdrsdrJoanna Knapczyk-Korczak during a 36th European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS36) in Lodz, Poland. (28th August – 1st September, 2023)Urszula Stachewicz at the 9th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection, and Dew in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. (July 23th-28th, 2023)Group outing at AGH Brewery. (13th July 2023)Group outing combined with Greg Parisi’s farewell at the end of his Fulbright fellowship in our group. (30th June 2023)PhD viva of Ewa A. Sroczyk. (26th June 2023) Daniel P. Ura and Piotr K. Szewczyk at the ceremony of receiving the FNP START2023 award.A visit of Attila Gergely, PhD (SAPIENTIA University) as part of the ERASMUS+ program financed by the European Union. (12th – 16th June, 2023)Madhurima Das and Sunija Sukumaran during a 38th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS-38) in St. Gallen, Switzerland (22th -26th May 2023).
Our group during ESEE2023 Conference at AGH, Kraków. (10th – 12th May 2023)Katarina Kacvinská from Central European Institute of Technology (part of Brno University of Technology) in Czech Republic joining our team for a 3-month internship (April 2023).The First National Day of Materials Engineering at AGH, Krakow (17th March 2023).
Larisaa Ribeiro from Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI) in Brazil is joining our team for a 3-month internship (February 2023).
2022
Christmas group outing at Błonia Bistro Restaurant and AGH Bowling Club. (December2022)Urszula Stachewicz speaking during Korea-EU CSO Gender Equality Outreach Event – Encouraging participation of women in Science and Technology, Soul, South Korea (29th November 2022)Urszula Stachewicz visiting the School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea (28th November 2022)Urszula Stachewicz, Piotr K. Szewczyk and Daniel P. Ura during a 7th International Conference on Electrospinning (Electrospin2022) conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malysia (22 – 24th October 2022)
0Arrival of the Ultra microtome Leica EM UC7 and the training with Łukasz Remez and Wojciech Kołakowski from Pik Instruments in our laboratory. (14th November 2022)PhD viva of Łukasz Kaniuk. (7th November 2022)
Gregory Parisi from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York in USA is joining our team for a 9-month internship within Fulbright Program. (October 2022)
Urszula Stachewicz and Joanna Karbowniczek during a Seventh International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials in Genoa, Italy. (19 -22th October)PhD viva of Zuzanna Krysiak. (17th October 2022) Zuzanna Krysiak and Urszula Stachewicz presenting the First Team Nano4Skin project results at the 4th Interdisciplinary FNP Conference in Warsaw, Poland (6th – 7th October).Adam Aberra Challa from Tomas Bata University in Zlin in Czech Republic is joining our team for 1-month short term scientific mission within COST Action Context (CA17107). (October 2022)Urszula Stachewicz and Martyna Polak at 1st Baltic Symposium on Polymer and (Bio)Materials Science – Baltic BioMa at Szczecin, Poland (22th – 23th September).Urszula Stachewicz, Ewa Sroczyk, Ahmadreza Moradi and Ali Emre Tasli at 12th International Conference “Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties” IEEE in Kraków, Poland. (11th – 16th September 2022)Krzysztof Berniak during a ESB2022, the 32nd Annual Conference of the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) in Bordeaux, France (4th – 8th September 2022)Martyna Polak, Ahmadreza Moradi and Ali Emre Taşlı during a Materials and Electro-Mechanical and Biomedical Devices Based on Nanofibers Advanced School in Udine, Italy (18th – 22th July 2022)Ahmadreza Moradi, Piotr K. Szewczyk and Daniel P. Ura during a the 6th Stanisław Gorczyca European School on Electron Microscopy and Tomography in Krakow, Poland (12th – 15th July 2022)Joanna Karbowniczek and Martyna Polak during a TERMIS-EU conference at Krakow, Poland. (28th June – 1st July, 2022)PhD student Ewa Sroczyk during her visit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA within The Bekker NAWA Programme in the group of Prof. Gregory Rutledge (May-September 2022) PhD promotion of Sara Metwally, Joanna Knapczyk-Korczak, Piotr K. Szewczyk and Daniel P. Ura at AGH University of Science and Technology (22th of June, 2022)Zuzanna Krysiak and Martyna Polak during a „Aerogels for biomedical application” Training School at Leaven, Belgium (7th – 10th June, 2022)Dr Joanna Karbowniczek at University of Birmingham, UK within our collaboration with Dr Felicity de Cogan and Dr Manuel Banzhaf. (April 2022)Within our collaboration with Prof. Shweta Agarwala, PhD student Zuzanna Krysiak is visiting Aarhus University in Denmark. (April 2022)A visit of Prof. Eyal Zussman (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, NanoEngineering Group) as part of the AGH doctoral school program financed by the NAWA project. (4th – 6th May, 2022)Urszula Stachewicz, Piotr Szewczyk, Joanna Knapczyk-Korczak and Daniel Ura attending 5th European Symposium on Electrohydrodynamic Atomization and Electrospinning in Engineering School of the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. (27th – 29th of April, 2022)Our Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science at AGH University is 100 years old. On this occasion we were invited to the Jubilee performance at Bagatela Theater in Kraków. (3rd April 2022) Group outing to Visual Concert in Tauron Arena and MultiQulti Bar. (28th February 2022)Arrival of the new electrospinning machine and the training with Marcin Lamczyk from Pik Instruments in our laboratory. (10th January 2022)
2021
Group outing at Obwarzanki Krakowskie Muzeum and Dobra Kasza Nasza restaurant. (9th December 2021) PhD viva of Daniel P. Ura and celebration party at Filutek Pub. (3rd December 2021) Department seminar from Łukasz Kaniuk with the recent results from her PhD research. (30th November 2021) Department seminar from Zuzanna Krysiak with the recent results from her PhD research. (23th November 2021)
Group outing at Veganic Restaurant. (October 2021)
Welcome new group members joining the ERC BioCom4SavEn project. (October 2021)
PhD viva of Joanna Knapczyk-Korczak and celebration party at Filutek Pub. (14th October 2021) New scanning thermal microscopy module for our Nanosurf Core AFM has arrived. The training with Marcin Lamczyk from Pik Instruments. (29th July, 2021)Now our lab is equipped with a new Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer. The installation and training provided by Spectro-Lab. (28th July, 2021)Our cell culture lab has now a new fluorescence microscope from Leica Microsystems. The installation and training provided by KAWA.SKA. (27th July, 2021)PhD viva of Piotr K. Szewczyk. (11th July, 2021)An article about our research in The Guardian magazine.Meeting of the organizing committee after school of „Advanced Technologies for the processing and characterization of nanostructured materials” (AERoGELS – COST Action 18125) (July 2021) in Kufle i Widelce (Kraków).Behind a scence of the organizing committee during a school of „Advanced Technologies for the processing and characterization of nanostructured materials” (AERoGELS – COST Action 18125) (July 2021) in AGH (Kraków).
Group photo taken with a thermal camera, purchased for an ERC project (BioCom4SavEn) (June 2021).
Group lunch at BGH AGH in Cracow (June 2021).An article about our research in The Economist magazine. PhD viva of Sara Metwally. (February 2021)
Inspired by nature by Pionier.TV. Mini documentary about research conducted in our group
2020
Stars of Horizon 2020 – Interview with Prof. Urszula Stachewicz about ERC Grant (in Polish)New laboratoryMoving to the new lab.
2019
Visit of Prof. Alexander Yarin from University of Illinois at Chicago who delivered excellent talk about „Self-Healing Nano-Textured Vascular Engineering Materials”. Details here.Biolab after transformation
Rebuilding of the biolab
Group lunch at Ramen People and Resto Bar in Cracow (before pandemic) (April and June 2019).
2018
„How to catch water droplet” by Urszula Stachewicz – TEDxAGHUniversity in Cracow 2018 (in Polish)
