Polonium Mentoring 2023-2024

Having learned from the previous year, we are happy to bring to you the next edition of Polonium Mentoring.

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.

This edition of the programme is global and we welcome every scientific discipline to join this year. We especially welcome participants from social and political sciences that constituted the lowest percentage of attendees in the pilot edition.

You can be a Mentor and a Mentee in the same time!

2023-2024 Timeline:

  • Application for mentors and mentees closes: on 15th October 2023

  • Pairing: up until the end of October or sooner

  • Project launch: 16.10.2023

  • Training for participants: 16th or 17th or 18th of October 2023

  • Project end: 31st of July 2024

 

How to apply?

We closed the registration for this iteration of the program. If you would be interested in joining the waiting list, get a chance to be paired with a Mentor/Mentee or you want to await the next edition of the project and get updates from our Team - please register your interest below.

You are eligible to become a Mentor if you are a PhD student, PostDoc, or above (in academia), or are working in industry.

During the registration, we will ask you about your skills and strengths to see what you could bring to the programme.

You are eligible to become a Mentee on every career stage.

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.

 

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 2023 (will be continuously updated)

 

Joanna Bagniewska

University of Oxford, Brunel University London

 

Magdalena Bereś

University of Warwick

Greta Brancaleoni

Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Karolina Dziemidowicz

University College London

Żaneta Koszowska

University of Leeds

Anna Ogonowska-Słodownik

Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw

Kamil Szepe

University of Nottingham/Marlow Foods Ltd

Anna Trawińska

Sano Centre for Computational Medicine, CyberMadeInPoland, Dots & Stories

Ewa Warchol

AstraZeneca

Filip Karol Pamula

Aarhus University

Agata Dymarska

Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Anna Hoy

Resolution Therapeutics, The University of Edinburgh

Iwona Pollmann

IONOS SE

Krzysztof Bartłomiej Piotrowski

Devote Consulting

Paraskevas Rodosthenous

University of Birmingham

Paweł Morzywołek

University of Washington

Marcin Wiorek

Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals Polish Academy of Sciences

Javier Dominiguez

National Centre for Nuclear Research

 

Karolina Chwalek

NodThera, VoLo Foundation

Mikołaj Kocikowski

University of Gdansk, University of Edinburgh

Kasia Mika-Bresolin

Queen Mary University of London

Marek Pędziwiatr

Queen Mary University of London.

Malwina Tkacz

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Francesco Trupia

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland

Paulina Warsza

University of Warsaw

Edyta Mazur

W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Ines Stasa

Epoka University

Justyna Durślewicz

Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun

Magdalena Kulczycka

Association of Biotechnology Companies BioForum

Maja Białecka

intoDNA, Caltech (alumni), UCSD

Timothy Douglas

Lancaster University

Wiktoria Stańczyk

Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN in Kraków

Maya A. Jastrzębowska

Freie Universität

 
 

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.