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 are currently recruiting mentors. If you would like to apply to be a mentor in the Polonium Mentoring 2024/2025 edition, please click below to fill the application form:
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 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)
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)
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.