On 11 October, the 2023 NCN Awards were handed out. In this episode of our podcast, we will talk about this most prestigious distinction for early-stage researchers working in Poland and research conducted by this year’s winners.
2023 NCN Award winners: Katharina Boguslawski, Łukasz Opaliński, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, photo credit: Michał Łepecki
Prof. Katharina Boguslawski, Prof. Łukasz Opaliński and Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska are the winners of the eleventh edition of NCN Awards. Prof. Boguslawski is a quantum chemist working at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and member of the Polish Young Academy, PAS. Prof. Łukasz Opaliński is a molecular biologist from the University of Wrocław and Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska specialises in cultural studies, Czech studies and ethnology at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Science.
Our guests today are Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska and Prof. Joanna Golińska-Pilarek, member of the NCN Council and NCN Award jury panel.
Dr Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska from the Polish Academy of Sciences specialises in memory studies and studies of objects and cultures of the so-called “Recovered Territories”. She looks at how the process of resettling areas previously inhabited by German and German-speaking communities unfolded in post-war Poland and Czechoslovakia. She says her research is about the “entanglement of time”, or the way in which the past continues to influence the present and the future.
Joanna Golińska-Pilarek, Karolina Ćwiek-Rogalska, Anna Korzekwa-Józefowicz
She talks about her research to Anna Korzekwa-Józefowicz.
Prof. Joanna Golińska-Pilarek talks about the principles guiding the jury’s selection procedure and amendment of the award regulations aiming to promote gender equality in science. The amended regulations will come into force next year.
Watch the videos of 2023 NCN Award winners and previous award winners on our YouTube Channel
You can read an interview with Prof. Katharina Boguslawski from a few months ago, in which she talks about her research, and combining career and family life.