Wiktor Lewandowski, Błażej Skrzypulec and Marcin Magierowski will deliver lectures in the “Science in the Center” series organised by the Copernicus Center and the NCN. The first session will be held on 20 November.
The first lectures in the “Science in the Center” series were given by NCN Award winners in 2020. To date, together with the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, we have produced twelve livestreams, which have had a total of more than 300K views.
The lectures are livestreamed on the YouTube channel of the Copernicus Center and later added to the “Science in the Center” playlist. Each session consists of a talk by the NCN Award winner and a moderated discussion, during which viewers can ask questions and make comments in the chat window.
Meetings with 2024 NCN Award winners will be held on three consecutive Wednesdays: 20 November, 27 November, and 4 December at 6 pm.
The first talk will be given by Wiktor Lewandowski, this year’s NCN Award winner for Physical Sciences and Engineering, who specialises in photonics and materials chemistry. Lewandowski won the 2024 NCN Award for his groundbreaking technique to produce chiral photonic nanomaterials.
A week later, we will meet Błażej Skrzypulec, who specialises in the philosophy of perception and, in particular, the structural aspects of sensory experience, non-visual perceptual modalities and multimodal perception. He won this year’s NCN Award in Arts, Humanities and Social Swciences for his achievements in the study of the structural aspects of perceptual experience.
Marcin Magierowski, specialised in multidisciplinary biomedical research, will give the last lecture in this year’s series. He won this year’s NCN Award in life sciences for his study of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide as key signal transducers in the pathogenesis and pharmacology of gastrointestinal lesions. Magierowski will talk about “Beneficial and medicinal ‘poisons’: hydrogen sulphide and carbon monoxide as a biomedical discovery that transcends our current understanding of the nature of the human body”.
You can also hear about the research done by Wiktor Lewandowski in the NCN podcast.