We are continuing with our series of meetings with NCN Award 2022 winners. On 15 and 21 December, respectively, we will hear online talks by Karolina Safarzyńska from the University of Warsaw, who specialises in complexity economics, and Michał Bogdziewicz, a forest ecologist from the Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań.
“Science in the Center” is a series of meetings with scientists organized by the NCN and the Copernicus Center Foundation. The lectures are delivered online and are streamed on the You Tube channel of the Copernicus Center.
On Thursday, 15 December, Karolina Safarzyńska, winner of the NCN Award 2022 for art, humanities and social sciences will deliver a talk entitled “Complexity Economics: the Future Is Now”.
A professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Warsaw, Karolina Safarzyńska is an interdisciplinary researcher, one of very few people in Poland to do research in experimental, behavioural and complexity economics in connection with climate change. She was given an NCN Award in recognition of her innovative theoretical models for the study of limited rationality, preference diversity and social interactions on climate policies.
A week later, on Wednesday, 21 December, we will meet Michał Bogdziewicz from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Warsaw. Bogdziewicz studies forest ecology, with an emphasis on seed years, i.e. years in which trees produce a particularly large quantity of seeds, and the impact of climate change on tree reproduction. His talk is entitled: “Hunger and Abundance: Tree Reproduction as an Unstable Foundation of Food Webs”.
Both talks will start at 6 pm and the audience will be able to ask questions.
The series kicked off with conversations with NCN Award winners for 2020 and 2021. In the new round, we have already heard a lecture by Piotr Wcisło. All events are available for replay online.