Polonium Mentoring 2024-2025
Bigger, broader, bolder - the 2024-2025 iteration of Polonium Mentoring is about to start - join in!
Who can participate?
To become a Mentor you should be at the doctoral student level or above (especially for pairing in the academic path). Highly experienced and impactful Mentors will be considered regardless of educational status. We are recruiting Mentors from different backgrounds - academia, industry, or business.
You can become a Mentee at all stages of your career.
The programme is global and we welcome every scientific discipline to join. We especially encourage participants from social and political sciences that constituted the lowest percentage of attendees in the previous years.
You can be a Mentor and a Mentee in the same time!
2024-2025 Timeline:
01.08-25.08 - 1st round of mentor recruitment
01.09-28.09 - 1st round of mentee recruitment
30.09 - 06.10 - Pairing of the participants
04.11 - Project launch and onboarding of the participants
How to apply?
We have finished recruiting Mentors and Mentees for 2024-2025 edition.
You are interested in joining us next year? Fill up the interest form below.
You are eligible to become a Mentee on every career stage, you can even be a mentor and a mentee simultaneously.
During the registration, we will ask you about what you hope to gain from a relationship with a Mentor, and in what areas you would need support the most. Just a heads up - you will be asked to submit this information in the form of a motivation letter, among others. Write us why you believe you should be part of the program and get a chance to network with successful professionals.
Supporters
Laurie Wessels
Laurie Wessels is an Executive Coach, Leadership Consultant and Trainer. She is a substantive support for the Mentoring Programme and provides training for our Mentors.
Mentors 2024 (will be continuously updated)
Rafał Kamiński, PhD
Angelini Pharma
Drug discovery and development (Medical & Health Sciences)
Marlena Hewitt
Akademia Humanistyczno Ekonomiczna - Lodz
Artist, Scientific illustrator (Arts & Humanities)
Tomasz Steifer, PhD
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
Logic, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence (Engineering & Computing)
Malwina Tkacz
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Philosophy & Law (Arts & Humanities)
Magdalena Kachlicka, PhD
Birkbeck, University of London
Auditory cognitive neuroscience and second language acquisition (Biological Sciences)
Anna Hoy, PhD
Resolution Therapeutics
Cell Therapies (Biological Sciences)
Anna Ogonowska-Slodownik, PhD
KITE Research Institute
Exercise science, Physiotherapy (Medical & Health Sciences)
Piotr Koc, PhD
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Comparative political behaviour & attitudes (Social & Behavioural Sciences)
Vanessa Bijak, PhD
University of Virginia
Biophysics with elements of Neuroscience (Medical & Health Sciences)
Filip Pamula, PhD
Aarhus University
Biochemistry/Molecular Biology/Structural Biology (Biological Sciences)
Marek Piprek
VIB KU Leuven
Oncology, Cancer Biology & Molecular Biology (Medical & Health Sciences)
Maciej Grajewski, PhD
SG Papertronics & SLAS fellow
Microfluidics, Biotechnology, Business development (Biological Sciences)
Ewa Nowicka-Ratajczak, PhD
Cardiff University/ Innovate UK
Catalysis (Chemical Sciences)
Joanna Kwiatek, PhD
Polonium Foundation
Microscopy (Biological Sciences)
Viktoria Babenko, PhD
Pharmalogics, TG Pharma
Medicinal product development (Biological Sciences)
Ronald Terrazas Mallea, PhD
Instytut Chemii Fizycznej - Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Bioprinting, Microfluidics (Maths & Physical Sciences)
Chris Sarnowski, PhD
DISCO Pharmaceuticals Swiss GmbH
Proteomics (Biological Sciences)
Magdalena Mroczek, PhD
University of Basel
Neurogenetics (Medical & Health Sciences)
Benjamin Barnard, PhD
SANE
NGO sector (Human Rights)
Karolina Chwalek, PhD
Voloridge Health, VoLo Foundation
Disease risk and prevention (Biological Sciences)
Aleksandra Baron-Wiechec, PhD
Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Advanced materials and surface analysis for broad energy sector (Chemical Sciences)
Marek Pędziwiatr, PhD
Jagiellonian University
Cognitive psychology / visual neuroscience (Social & Behavioral sciences)
Michail Symeonidis
University of Lausanne
History - Political sciences (Arts & Humanities)
Francesco Trupia, PhD
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Philosophy, Politics and Society (Social & Behavioural Sciences)
Mateusz Jaskolowski, PhD
ETH Zurich / University of Cambridge
Structural biology and protein engineering (Biological Sciences)
Sebastian Cygert, PhD
Gdańsk University of Technology / IDEAS NCBR
Deep Learning (Engineering & Computing)
Adam de Sola Pool
MIT, Harvard, and WHOI
Ocean and clean technologies (Economics, Business & Finance)
Magda Opanowicz, PhD
Becton Dickinson
Product specialist cell analysis (Biological Sciences)
Jedrzej Borowczak, PhD
Prof. Franciszek Łukaszczyk Oncology Centre in Bydgoszcz
Oncology, Pathology, Cancer Research, Medicine (Medical&Health Sciences)
Dagny Grzech, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena
Plant Biochemistry (Biological sciences)
Michał Cyrankiewicz
Seasoil
Finance, Operations (Economics, Business & Finance)
Jakub Knurek
Mabion S.A., RKAC Sp. z o.o.
Biotechnology, Business Development (Biological Sciences)
Karolina Matulewicz, PhD
IQVIA RDS and Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology
Clinical Trials and Oncology (Medical & Health Sciences)
Pialy Ghanekar, PhD
Cell Savvy Group
Infectious diseases (Medical & Health Sciences)
Katarzyna Glanowska, PhD
Lonza
Biomanufacturing, science commercialization (Biological Sciences)
Iwona Hawryluk, PhD
Imperial College London
Statistical Modelling, Data Science (Maths & Physical Sciences)
Javier Dominguez, PhD
National Center for Nuclear Research
Metallurgy, Materials science, computer modelling (Chemical Sciences, Maths & Physical Sciences)
Róża Przanowska, PhD
University of Virginia
Cancer Research (Medical & Health Sciences, Biological Sciences)
Useful links:
You have a question?
You can get in touch with the mentoring project manager at mentoring@poloniumfoundation.org
Community Partners:
Special thanks to the Society of Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom for providing guidance and support.