Subjects of theses, names and supervisors

Workpackage 1. Modern Physical and Chemical Methods in Investigating Biological Processes and Their Application for Medical Purposes.

• Synthetic mRNA cap analogs and their application for biochemical and structural studies of decapping enzymatic complex Dcp2/Dcp1.

  Supervised by prof. Edward Darżynkiewicz and dr Jacek Jemielity.

• Synthetic mRNA cap analogs with increased cellular stability and their application for anti-cancer immunization with mRNA.

  Supervised by prof. Edward Darżynkiewicz and dr Jacek Jemielity.

• Cap-4, Its Analogs and Cap Binding Proteins as Novel Drug Targets for Treatment of Leishmaniasis.

  Supervised by prof. Edward Darżynkiewicz and dr Joanna Żuberek.

• Biophysical bases of translational regulation of eukaryotic gene expression.

  Supervised by prof. Ryszard Stolarski and dr Anna Niedźwiecka.

• Structural determinants of mRNA 5’ cap binding by trimethylguanosine synthase.

  Supervised by prof. Edward Darżynkiewicz and dr Anna Niedźwiecka.

• Multivariate matching pursuit analysis of MEG evoked fields.

  Supervised by dr hab. Piotr Durka.

Workpackage 2. Techno and Info: Nano-technologies, Quantum-technologies and Optoelectronics:

2a) Quantum nanostructures for photonics and photovoltaics – techno-, bio- and info-applications of semiconductors.

• Nanomaterials for Li-ion batteries.

  Supervised by dr hab. K. Korona.

• Magnetic nanomaterials for future nanoelectronics.

  Supervised by prof. dr hab. D. Wasik.

• GaN-based microcavities in electric field and high magnetic field.

  Supervised by dr hab. A. Wysmołek.

• III-nitride based solar cells, supervisor.

  Supervised by prof. Maria Kamińska.

• Nitride and carbon based nanostructures for detectors and biosensors.

  Supervised by dr hab. K. Korona and dr hab. A. Wysmołek.

• Semiconductor devices for terahertz applications.

  Supervised by dr hab. A. Babiński and dr hab. J. Łusakowski.

2b. Novel applications of nonlinear optical phenomena.

• Coherent nonlinear microscopies at nanoscale.

  Supervised by prof. Czesław Radzewicz.

• Nonlinear optical phenomena in photonic crystal fibers.

  Supervised by prof. Czesław Radzewicz.

2c. Nanoscale flow and transport phenomena in soft matter (nanofluidics)

• Nanoscale transport phenomena in soft matter near a surface.

  Supervised by prof. Bogdan Cichocki and dr Piotr Szymczak.

• The shape and evolution of interfaces under the influence of nearby moving bodies.

  Supervised by prof. Marek Napiórkowski.

2d. Quantum Technologies Based on Atomic and Molecular Physics.

• Bosonic and Fermionic Condensates of Strongly Interacting Cold Atoms in Optical Lattices.

  Supervised by dr hab. Krzysztof Byczuk.

• Rigorous analysis of excitation spectrum of quantum gases.

  Supervised by prof. dr hab. Jan Dereziński.

• Implementation of quantum information processing with polar molecules.

  Supervised by prof. Marek Trippenbach and dr Zbigniew Idziaszek.

• Collisional properties and many body effects in ultracold ion-atom systems.

  Supervised by prof. Marek Trippenbach and dr Zbigniew Idziaszek.

• Quantum coherence and correlations in cold atom systems.

  Supervised by prof. Marek Trippenbach.

• Engineering and Control of Quantum Processes by Attosecond Laser Pulses.

  Supervised by prof. Jerzy Kamiński and dr Katarzyna Krajewska.

Workpackage 3. Fundamental Problems of Quantum Gravity and Quantum Field Theory:

• Hadron light-front wave functions based on AdS/QCD duality.

  Supervised by prof. Stanisław D. Głazek.

• Strong interaction corrections to the weak radiative B-meson decay at order O(alpha_s^2) with exact dependence on the c-quark mass.

  Supervised by prof. dr hab. Mikołaj Misiak.

• Flavour Constraints on Supersymmetric Grand Unified Theories.

  Supervised by prof. dr hab. Mikołaj Misiak.

• Search for new physics in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector based on new data from the LHC experiments.

  Supervised by prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Lalak.

• Knots as possible excitations of quantum Yang-Mills fields.

  Supervised by prof. Jerzy Lewandowski.

• Effective low-energy theories from the Randall-Sundrum model with soft branes.

  Supervised by prof. Bohdan Grządkowski.

• Multi-singlet extensions of the Standard Model.

  Supervised by prof. Bohdan Grządkowski.

• Heat kernels in the study of quantum spacetimes.

  Supervised by prof. Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman.

• Applications of the spin networks and Spin Foam Models in Quantum Field Theory and quantum gravity.

  Supervised by prof. Jerzy Lewandowski.