Ministry of Science and Higher Education scholarships for outstanding young scientists | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

Aleksandra Kuryłowicz-Cudowska, PhD, Eng., Civil Engineering, Geodesy and Transport, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Strength of Materials at the Faculty of Environmental and Environmental Engineering. Her scientific activity is focused on experimental and numerical recognition of thermal phenomena in young concrete. In her research work to date, she has proven that it is possible to describe the development of concrete compressive strength as a function that takes into account the influence of the combined effects of time and temperature. Together with a team led by Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, she developed a system for monitoring changes in time of the actual strength of hardening concrete in the structure, which was implemented during the construction of the largest extradosed bridge span in Europe. To date, he has 28 scientific articles, including 12 in journals from the JCR list. In 2021-2022, she was the head of the research project entitled "The influence of curing conditions on the development of concrete temperature – analysis of boundary conditions in experimental and numerical terms", which was funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) as part of the MINIATURA competition.

Krzysztof Pyrchla, M.Sc., Materials Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He graduated from the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics with the title of engineer. He then studied optoelectronics at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, where he obtained a master's degree.  He was also a fellow in the QUNNA project, where he worked on ab initio simulations of the interaction of nanodiamonds with NV color centers with organic compounds and their effect on the fluorescence of these nanoparticles. In order to investigate the possibility of using nonlinear light scattering (Hyper–Rayleigh scattering) on phosophrene nanostructures, he completed internships in a group led by Prof. Pierre-Francois Brevet (Institut Lumière Matière, Lyon1) and Prof. Thomas Buergi (Université de Genève). He conducts his research in the team of Robert Bogdanowicz, PhD, DSc, Eng., Professor of Gdańsk Tech.