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Research focus of the Centre:
The Center performs interdisciplinary research in physics and chemistry on applications in medicine and environmental science, i.e.: cardiovascular disease studied by nonlinear methods, analysis of heart rate variability measured in 24 h ECG recordings by means of nonlinear methods in order develop new tools for diagnostics in cardiology (assessment of the risk of cardiac arrest) taking into account the nonstationary character of the regulatory systems; dynamic surface tension as an indicator of particle-lung interactions; new technologies for pharmacy - particle design using precipitation methods: theory, modeling and practice (optimisation of industrial mixing and chemical reaction processes to design particles of desirable size distribution and morphology); environmental exposure of living organisms and information-thermodynamics models of evolution (the impact of environment on the evolution of living organisms considered using the information theoretic concepts applied to original model of evolution of a multiorgan or multistage living organisms), universal transdisciplinary methods of complex systems (stochastic resonance, turbulence, chaos control, percolation theory).
Polish research projects currently run in the Centre:
Selected Grants of Polish Committee for Scientific Research:
European research projects currently run in the Centre:
One project submitted undergoing evaluation:
Quality:
Members of the Center published more than 500 research papers in polish and international refereed journals. They are authors or co-authors of several books and about 50 patents. They directed and participated in about twenty Grants of Polish Committee for Scientific Research and were partners in several EU Grants. They organized or co-organized six international workshops in the field of complex systems in social and in economical sciences and several international conferences on complex systems and their bio-medical applications. They are members of many institutions and committees (i.e. Polish Physical Society, European Physical Society, Institution of Chemical Engineers, North American Mixing Forum, International Society for Aerosols in Medicine; Gesselshaft fur Aerosolforschung, Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Central Institute for Labor Protection) and they are members of several Editorial Boards.
Equipment:
The Faculties both supply computer services (intranet, internet and computational Unix facilities). The Center has two clusters of PCs connected to these services. Parallel computation services are provided both by the Computation Center of WUT and by the ICM of the Warsaw University. Each Faculty has its own science library and the University has a large library which is one of the best and largest of its kind in Poland executing a central function in the scheme of university libraries in the country. One of the strongest feature of this library system is that the it supplies an online access to library data bases (including the physics data bases, chemical data bases and the medical data base Medline). Full text versions of 480 major scientific journals are available on-line throughout the University.
Human resources:
Members of the Center in Faculty of Physics: 4 professors, 2 associate professors, 12 post graduate Ph.D. students.
Members of the Center in Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering: 3 professors, 3 associate professors and several post graduate Ph.D. students.
At present there are also about twenty students gaining their M.Sc. degree in the Center.
Training possibility:
It is possible to study in the Center on M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels. The Center often hosts scientists from different countries, including many senior scientists from prominent European, American and Polish institutes.
Scientific co-operation:
In the Physics part of the Center, intensive scientific collaboration with 17 European (from 5 countries) and 5 Polish institutes is currently being maintained. Scientific collaboration with Polish institutes comprises, e.g., applications of nonlinear dynamics in medicine (e.g., National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, and Academy of Medicine, Warsaw). In the last five years, 42 joint publications of the Center staff members with co-authors from co-operating institutes appeared in international journals. In the Chemical Engineering part of the Center, the networking activities are based on the widespread contacts of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering with foreign and Polish institutions. In the years 1996-2001 between 16 and 27 formal agreements for collaboration with scientific institutes and industry were active every year, 15 Faculty staff members stayed abroad to conduct long-term research, and 341 staff members visited foreign scientific institutes and participated in conferences abroad.
Co-operation with industrial partners:
The largest partners in industrial applications of newly developed technologies are: Nitrogen Works, Tarnów and Puławy (in the improvement of the process of cyclohexane oxidation, technology for denoxing of gases, intensification of production of hydroxylamine compounds), Microspoon Products, Warsaw (design and production of fibre filters for water purification), Miejskie Przedsiebiorstwo Energetyki Cieplnej, Bialystok (desulphurisation of gases, the largest installation in Poland).
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