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Research focus of the Centre:
TALES has an interdisciplinary character. Its main area of research comprises theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry and chemical engineering as well as applications of new methods in industrial technology.
Focusing on solving environmental problems the staff of the Laboratory currently concentrate on:
Polish research projects currently run in the Centre:
There are about 140 Polish grants and scientific projects run in the Institute and the scientists from the Centre are involved in many of them, e.g.:
European research projects currently run in the Centre:
The Institute participates in 12 international projects. The scientists from TALES participate in some of them and some researchers from the Centre have been awarded individual grants, e.g.:
Quality:
The Institute of Physical Chemistry is one of the leading scientific institutions in Poland. It takes second place in the ranking of the State Committee for Scientific Research. During last decade the Institute organised or co-organised 44 national and international conferences and workshops. The scientists of the Centre are members of the editorial boards of many international scientific journals, e.g. Crystal Engineering, Supramolecular Chemistry, Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The high level of research done in the Centre as well as excellent new equipment developed in the Laboratory result in numerous visits from foreign scientists who come to the Centre both for training and Ph.D. courses. In the last five years 21 young researchers from Eastern and Western Europe came for training to the Centre and 5 foreign students (France - 1, Russia - 2, Ukraine - 2) defended their Ph.D. thesis. Another five foreign students have just started the Ph.D. course. Numerous outstanding foreign scientists give guest lectures at the Institute and vice versa, many representatives from the Centre of Excellence visit foreign universities to lecture and do research.
Equipment:
The staff of the Centre works with modern and highly specialised equipment, e.g. rotating disc reactor, scanning microcalorimeters, Thermal Analysis System (Du Pont Differential Scanning Calorimeter 910b and Thermogravimetric Analyzer 951), fluorine combustion bomb calorimeter, KappaCCD - X-ray diffractometers, liquid and gas chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis.
Human resources:
Three departments of the Institute and one specialised laboratory form TALES. It means that approximately 20 per cent of the Institute's staff participates in the Centre's activities, i.e. 47 researchers and 14 technicians. There are numerous highly qualified scientists in TALES: 6 professors (2 members of the PAS), 16 associate professors and 14 research assistants. The rest are Ph.D. students and the supporting staff.
Training possibility:
The Institute is involved in both under- and postgraduate education. It closely cooperates with the Chemistry Departments at Warsaw University and Warsaw University of Technology. The Institute is also a co-founder of the College of Science at Stefan Wyszyński University and numerous researchers from the Institute are involved in educational activities at undergraduate level. In 1965 the International School for Postgraduate Studies was established at the Institute. It provides training at postgraduate level in both physical and theoretical chemistry. Since 1965, 224 Ph.D. degrees have been thus conferred. One of the main goals of the Centre is to provide opportunities for young chemists and to encourage them to participate in scientific research. Ph.D. studies currently offered by the Centre include thermodynamics, calorimetry and supramolecular chemistry. However, it is the ambition of the Centre to educate researchers with an interdisciplinary approach to global problems like environmental issues. The Centre will organise workshops, summer schools and students' exchange. Those who have done Ph.D. are obliged to go for at least one year to a leading scientific laboratory abroad. Consequently the researchers from the Centre obtain useful knowledge and enhance the exchange of information between research centres.
Scientific co-operation:
The Centre cooperates with numerous universities and scientific institutions. There are several Polish institutions that are engaged in the project, e.g. Warsaw University of Technology, Technical University of Łódź, Wrocław University, and the Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, PAS. The Twin Partner of the Centre abroad is the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, University of Mediterranee, France. Other scientific partners include University of Trieste, Italy; University of Kaiserslautern and University of Dortmund, Germany; Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of Czech Academy of Sciences; Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; Tallinn University, Estonia; University of Metz, France; University of Delaware, USA; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK; National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Co-operation with industrial partners:
It is the aim of TALES to strengthen cooperation between science and industry in the NAS region. At present the representatives of the Centre realise the UNIDO project: "Regional programme for establishment of high-tech Incubation systems at the Academies of Sciences in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia" No. US/RER/95/145. However, they have already had a lot of implementation of new chemical technologies, equipment and methods in industry and innovative companies, e.g.:
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