Excellence Initiative - Research University
Grants obtained for the implementation of the development plans of the Institute of Geophysics of the FUW
as part of the "Excellence Initiative - Research University (2020-2026)" Program
of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- Mentor Program
- Project funding
- Infrastructure funding
- Travel funding
- Publication funding
- Preparation of doctoral dissertations
- Promotion of scientific research
1. Funding under the "Mentor Program":
- Mentoring visit of Prof. Wiesław Królikowski from The Australian National University, 08-14.09.2024, "Structured light"
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Rafał Kasztelanic. Article on website WWW. - Mentoring visit of Prof. Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem from the University of Adelaide, 30.06.-05.07.2024, "Fiber optics and nitrogen-gap diamonds in ultra-low intensity spatial field measurements"
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczyński. Article on website WWW. - Mentoring visit of Prof. Alper Kiraz from Koç University, 20.01.2024 - 23.01.2024, "Some Applications of Optofluidics and Deep Learning in Bio-Imaging, Bio/Chemical-Sensing, and Energy Photonics"
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczyński - Mentoring visit of Prof. Wiesław Królikowski from TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, 12.06.2023 - 21.06.2023, "Trapping and manipulation of airborne particles with structured light"
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczyński - Mentoring visit of Dr Jun-Ichi Yano from Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France,29.10.2022 - 27.11.2022,
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Szymon Malinowski
2. Project funding:
- "Multifunctional integrated database of observational and measurement data and simulation results with a data sharing system", IGF FUW-ICM UW,
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Szymon Malinowski - "Interactions of light and plasma in hollow-core optical fibres"
Project leader: dr hab. Mariusz Klimczak, prof. ucz. - "Modeling and experimental realization of a new class of tunable nanoscale plasmonic structures for light control at the nanoscale,"
Project leader: dr Piotr Wróbel
3. Infrastructure funding:
- purchase of an electron-beam evaporation system
Project leader: dr Tomasz Stefaniuk - purchase of a glovebox system. A detailed technical description of the infrastructure can be found here
Project leader: prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczyński - renewal of the Lesker PVD 75 electron-beam vacuum sputtering machine,
Project leader: dr Piotr Wróbel - purchase of chemical reagents,
Project leader: mgr Alexander Korneluk
4. Travel funding:
- Participation in the "2nd European Fluid Dynamics Conference (EFDC2)" international conference, 26–29.06.2025, Dublin, Ireland
dr hab. Marta Wacławczyk - Participation in the "SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2025" international conference, 06–11.04.2025, Prague, Czech Republic
dr Piotr Wróbel - Participation in the "6th Optometric Conference of Central and Southeast Europe", 24–28.04.2025, Opatija, Croatia, presentation entitled "Influence of silicone-hydrogel contact lenses on lipid layer thickness in the tear film after lens application"
mgr Tomasz Suliński - Participation in the "SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2025" international conference, 06–11.04.2025, Prague, Czech Republic
mgr Alexander Korneluk - Participation in the "GAMM 2025" international conference, 07–11.04.2025, Poznań, Poland, presentation entitled "Turbulence statistics in thunder clouds"
mgr Joydeep Sarkar - Participation in the "Short Course on Advanced Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations 2025", 02–08.02.2025, Trento, Italy
mgr Agnieszka Makulska - Participation in the "SPIE Photonics West 2025" conference, 23–31.01.2025, San Francisco, United States, presentation entitled "Quantum cascade lasers optical power enhancement through the optimization of high-reflection coatings"
mgr Dominika Niewczas - Participation in the "Australian Institute of Physics Congress 2024 (AIP 2024)" and in the "2nd International Workshop on 3D Printing of Photonics Components", 01–06.12.2024, Melbourne, Australia
prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczyński - Participation in the "SEIA 2024 Conference", 24–28.09.2024, Ibiza, Spain
mgr Afwan Hafiz - Participation in the "International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation" and accompanying workshops on cloud physics, 07–21.07.2024, Jeju, South Korea, presentation entitled "How Randomness in Droplet Collisions Affects Precipitation in Numerical Cloud Models"
dr Piotr Dziekan - Participation in the "18th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena – Metamaterials 2024", 08–13.09.2024, Crete, Greece
Mgr Alexander Korneluk - Participation in the "1st European Fluid Dynamics Conference", 15–20.09.2024, Aachen, Germany
Mgr Paweł Jędrejko - Participation in the "EMS Annual Meeting 2024" conference, 01–07.09.2024, Barcelona, Spain
mgr inż. Grzegorz Florczyk - Participation in the International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, 14-19.07.2024, Jeju, South Korea.
prof. dr hab. Szymon Malinowski - Participation in the "International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation" and accompanying training courses on cloud physics, 07-21.07.2024, Jeju, South Korea.
mgr inż. Stanisław Król - Participation in the "Optica Advanced Photonics Congress" conference, 28.07.-01.08.2024, Quebec, Canada
dr hab. Mariusz Klimczak, prof. ucz. - participation in the "International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation" conference, 14-19.07.2024, Jeju, South Korea.
dr Jakub Nowak - participation in the scientific conference 2024 ARVO Annual Meeting, 04-11.05.2024, Seattle, United States
mgr Oliwia Kaczkoś - long-term research trip to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 02.10.2023-01.02.2024, Pasadena, California, United States. Article on IGF website www.igf.fuw.edu.pl
mgr inż. Grzegorz Florczyk - Participation in the Conference on Lasers abd Electro-Optics CLEO, 25-30.06.2023 Munich, Germany,
dr hab. Mariusz Klimczak, prof. ucz. - Participation in the summer school Lille Turbulence Program 2023, The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of Lille Kampe de Feriet 19.06.-13.07.2023 Lille, France, presentation entitled. "Turbulence properties in stratocumulus and cumulus clouds".
dr Jakub Nowak - Long-term research trip to Michigan Technological University, 08.05.-07.08.2023, Houghton, USA. Article on IGF website www.igf.fuw.edu.pl
mgr Robert Grosz - Participation in the foreign scientific conference 2023 ARVO Annual Meeting in the USA, 22-29.04.2023, New Orleans, USA, poster titled. "Contrast sensitivity study for two-photon vision".
mgr Oliwia Kaczkoś - participation in the 5th Optometric Conference of Central and Southeast Europe international conference, 20-24.04.2023 Split, Croatia, poster pt. "Demonstration of surface differences of silicone hydrogel lenses by confocal reflectance microscopy measurements".
mgr Tomasz Suliński - Participation in the 7th International Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibre (WSOF), 11-16.12.2022 Adelaide, Australia, lecture entitled "Volumetric integration of nanodiamonds in optical fibre cores".
prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczynski - Participation in the international conference XXV Fluid Mechanics Conference, 07-09.09.2022, Rzeszów, Poland, poster entitled. "Hydrometeor Measurements using Shadowgraph technique".
mgr Moein Mohammadi - Participation in the conference "General Congress of the International Commission for Optics and the Conference of International Society on Optics Within Life Science" 5-10.09.2022, Dresden, Germany, lecture entitled "Magnetically sensitive fibre optic probes with stepped index, suspended core or hollow core microstructures"
dr hab. Mariusz Klimczak - Participation in the International Radiation Symposium 2022 conference, 01-08.07.2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, presentation entitled. "Modelling of the Diurnal Cycle of the Aerosol-filled PBL with the Eddy Diffusivity/Mass Flux Model Coupled with the Radiative Transfer Model".
mgr inż. Grzegorz Florczyk - Participation in the International Radiation Symposium 2022, 01-08.07.2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, post-conference paper titled. "Vertical profiling of aerosols with drones, cable cars and skyscrapers".
mgr Katarzyna Nurowska - participation in the international conference Vision Dublin 2022, European Academy of Optometry and Optics, Dublin, Ireland, 12-16.05.2022,
mgr Justyna Kiermasz - research trip to the University of Leeds, National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, 25.04.-19.06.2022, Leeds, United Kingdom,
mgr inż. Stanisław Król
5. Publication funding:
- Open Access for Atmospheric Environment ISSN 1873-2844
Substantial impacts of absorbing aerosols on PBL evolution in EDMF-AERO modeling framework, 2025, vol. 352, art. 121192, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121192
mgr Grzegorz Florczyk - Open Access for Optics Letters ISSN 0146-9592
Dependence of the magnetic dipole resonance of hyperbolic nanospheres on the external medium, 2025, vol. 50(4), pp. 1293–1296, doi: 10.1364/OL.550740
dr hab. Tomasz Antosiewicz - Open Access for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ISSN 1867-8548
The ratio of transverse to longitudinal turbulent velocity statistics for aircraft measurements, 2025, vol. 18(1), pp. 93–114, doi: 10.5194/amt-18-93-2025
prof. dr hab. Szymon Malinowski - Open Access for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ISSN 1680-7316
Investigation of non-equilibrium turbulence decay in the atmospheric boundary layer using Doppler lidar measurements, 2024, vol. 24(23), pp. 13231–13251, doi: 10.5194/acp-24-13231-2024
dr Marta Wacławczyk - Open Access for Optics & Laser Technology ISSN 1879-2545
Generation of high-order optical vortices with nanostructured phase masks, 2024, vol. 172, art. 110490, doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2023.110490
dr hab. Rafał Kasztelanic - Open Access for Advanced Materials ISSN 0935-9648
Multilevel Optical Storage, Dynamic Light Modulation, and Polarization Control in Filamented Memristor System, 2025, vol. 37(3), art. 2411186, doi: 10.1002/adma.202411186
dr Tomasz Stefaniuk - Open Access for Advanced Science ISSN 2198-3844,
Free-Form Optical Fiber with a Square Mode and Top-Hat Intensity Distribution, 2024, vol. 11(33), art. 2402886, doi: 10.1002/advs.202402886
prof. dr hab. Ryszard Buczyński - Open Access for Geophysical Research Letters ISSN 1944-8007,
mgr inż. Stanisław Król
Can Recurrence Quantification Analysis Be Useful in the Interpretation of Airborne Turbulence Measurements?, 2024, vol. 51(6), art. e2023GL105753, doi: 10.1029/2023GL105753 - Open Access for Geoscientific Model Development ISSN 1991-9603,
mgr inż. Piotr Żmijewski
Modeling Collision-Coalescence in Particle Microphysics: Numerical Convergence of Mean and Variance of Precipitation in Cloud Simulations Using University of Warsaw Lagrangian Cloud Model (UWLCM) 2.1, Geoscientific Model Development, 2024, vol. 17(2), pp. 759-780, doi: 10.5194/gmd-17-759-2024 - Open Access for CARBON ISSN 0008-6223,
dr hab. Mariusz Klimczak,
Nonlinearity shaping in nanostructured glass-diamond hybrid materials for optical fiber preforms, CARBON, 2022, vol. 196, pp. 10-19, doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2022.04.024 - Open Access for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ISSN 1867-8548,
mgr Moein Mohammadi
Cloud microphysical measurements at a mountain observatory: comparison between shadowgraph imaging and phase Doppler interferometry, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2022, vol. 15, pp. 965-985, doi: 10.5194/amt-15-965-2022 - Open Access for Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292,
mgr Patryk Grzybowski
Estimations of the Ground-Level NO2 Concentrations Based on the Sentinel-5P NO2 Tropospheric Column Number Density Product, Remote Sensing, 2023, vol. 15(2), art. 378, doi: 10.3390/rs15020378 - Proofreading for Atmospheric Measurement Techniques ISSN 1867-8548,
mgr Katarzyna Nurowska - Open Access for Atmospheric Measeurement Techniques ISSN 1867-1381,
mgr Jakub Nowak,
Applicability of the VisiSize D30 shadowgraph system for cloud microphysical measurements, Atmospheric Measeurement Techniques, 2021, vol. 14, pp. 2615–2633, doi: 10.5194/amt-14-2615-2021 - Open Acces for Optics Express ISSN 1094-4087,
mgr inż. Damian Michalik,
Toward highly birefringent silica Large Mode Area optical fibers with anisotropic core, 2021, vol. 29(15), pp. 22883-22899, 10.1364/OE.428726 - Open Access for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ISSN 1680-7316,
mgr Jakub Nowak
Coupled and decoupled stratocumulus-topped boundary layers: turbulence properties, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2021, vol. 21(14), pp. 10965-10991, doi: 10.5194/acp-21-10965-2021
6. Preparation of doctoral dissertations:
- mgr Afwan Hafiz, Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences (POB I: Science for the Planet)
- mgr Katarzyna Nurowska, Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences (POB I: Science for the Planet)
- mgr Alexander Korneluk, Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences (POB II: Beyond Micro and Macro Worlds)
7. Promotion of scientific research:
- "Series of popular science articles on research in the field of optometry and ophthalmic optics 2025"Project leader: dr hab. Jacek Pniewski
- Article: "Controlling myopia progression using red light — can it really work?", OKO 2/2025
- Article: "Infrared vision: a revolution in eye diagnostics (and beyond) through two-photon retinal stimulation", OKO 3/2025
