FNP Council

Jurkowlaniec conducted research or classes in various European centers: at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Scholarship 2010), at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Andrew W. Mellon East-Central European Research Fellows Program, 2005/2006), but also in Rome (Lanckoroński Foundation Scholarship, 2003 and 2007), Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (2009, 2010, and 2019), Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg (2017), KU Leuven (2015), and Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte Kultur Ostmitteleuropas in Leipzig (2006). Jurkowlaniec implemented two and is currently managing the third research project financed under the OPUS program of Poland's National Science Centre. She authored three monographs and numerous articles in magazines, including Artibus et Historiae, Barockberichte, Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, Konsthistorisk tidskrift, Kwartalnik Historyczny, Pamiętnik Literacki, Print Quarterly, Religions, Annual Art History, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and in separately published collections of articles. Jurkowlaniec's doctoral dissertation received the Prime Minister's award, while the book that enabled her to obtain habilitation was published in the FNP MONOGRAFIE competition series and received the Award of the First Department of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Moreover, Jurkowlaniec acts as a translator (among others, of Umberto Eco and Erwin Panofsky) and book editor (two volumes co-edited by her recently appeared in Routledge). At present, she is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity and the scientific council of Ikonotheka (the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw) and Eikón Imago (Departamento de Historia de Arte, Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Jurkowlaniec performed various administrative functions at the University of Warsaw. She was the Director of the Institute of Art History in 2012-2016, the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of History (2016-2020), the Chairwoman of the Scientific Council for Art from 2019, and the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Culture from 2020. Furthermore, since 2015, she is a member of the Art Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Council of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2013-2020, Jurkowlaniec was a jury member of the Nicolaus Copernicus Polish-German Research Award (2018-2020 also as the Chairwoman), jointly awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; and - in 2018-2019 - she was a member of the Ethics and Good Practices Committee of the FNP. She worked in many teams of experts - often as a chairwoman - of the National Science Centre, but also in evaluation panels of the European Research Council, the Foundation for Polish Science, and the National Agency for Academic Exchange. In 2014-2016, she was a member of the Council of Poland's National Programme for the Development of Humanities, and she regularly reviews applications for various domestic and foreign agencies. Jurkowlaniec is a member of the FNP Council from September 1, 2020. More information

Professor Jemielity specializes in organic chemistry, biological chemistry, and biochemistry. He is the world's leading expert in chemically modified mRNA. He is the director of the Laboratory of Chemical Biology at the Centre of New Technologies of the University of Warsaw. He has promoted twelve doctors, thirty master’s degree holders, and fourteen undergraduates, and has mentored seventeen postdoctoral trainees. Professor Jemielity co-founded and leads ExploRNA Therapeutics, a spin-off company of the University of Warsaw, which develops technologies involving the modification of the so-called cap at the 5′ end of mRNA.

Jemielity received grants from organizations such as the National Science Centre, the FNP TEAM programme, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He co-authored more than 140 publications in such journals as Nature Communications, Nature Chemistry, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Molecular & Structural Biology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemistry International Edition, Chemical Science, Nucleic Acids Research, RNA, and Organic Letters, which have been cited more than 3700 times and have a Hirsch index of 34. Professor Jemielity invented fourteen patents or patent applications, two of which were licensed by BioNTech and four by ExploRNA. He co-invented several mRNA modification technologies for therapeutic purposes; one of his inventions currently undergoes more than a dozen clinical trials. Member to the Advisory Board of Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids (Cell Press) and many expert panels, Jemielity serves as an expert for research funding agencies and scientific institute boards.

His scientific achievements earned him numerous awards, including the Scientific Award bestowed on young scientists by the weekly Polityka, the Presidential Economic Award, and awards from the Rector of the University of Warsaw. He was nominated for the European Patent Office’s European Inventor Award. In 2021, he received the Foundation for Polish Science Prize in chemical and materials sciences for developing chemical modifications of mRNA as tools for therapeutic applications and studies of cellular processes.

Member of the FNP Council from 1 September 2024.

Garstecki is a mentor and educator of the next generation of scientists as the co-organizer of the 'Droga na Harvard' competition (Road to Harvard) as part of the Harvard Club of Poland and as the promoter of several doctoral dissertations. Co-author of about 150 scientific publications, including Physical Review Letters, Lab on a Chip, Analytical Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Science, Nature, Nature Physics. Co-author of over 100 patent applications and several dozen patents granted in Europe, the USA, and Asia. Member of the Editorial Committee of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Lab on a Chip, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry; he is often invited to give keynote lectures by international scientific societies. Winner of numerous awards, including 'For the Merit of Inventions' awarded by the Prime Minister of Poland (2019), Prof. Kazimierz Bartel Prize (2018), the 'Very Important Polish Innovator' Award by the 'Teraz Polska' Foundation (2015), the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2013), the W. Kołos Prize awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences (2005), and Prime Minister Prizes for the best doctoral dissertation and habilitation. Moreover, Garstecki won many grants awarded by Polish and international institutions, including the prestigious ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council and EIC SME, a grant from the European Innovation Council. He is multiple laureate of competitions by the Foundation for Polish Science, including MISTRZ, POWROTY/HOMING, TEAM, and TEAM-TECH. Garstecki is an independent expert of the European Commission. As the founder and president of Scope Fluidics - established in 2010 as the first spin-off of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences - he orients the company from the very beginning toward creating innovative solutions for the needs of medical diagnostics. Garstecki is a link between the worlds of business and science, improving the cooperation of both environments, and combining viewpoints. In 2012, Scope Fluidics established its first special purpose vehicle, Curiosity Diagnostics, to create a point-of-care system offering the world's fastest detection of bacteria and viruses. In 2017, the Scope Fluidics group established another special purpose vehicle, BacterOMIC, which is developing the world's first fully comprehensive antibiotic susceptibility test. Garstecki is a member of the FNP Council since September 1, 2020.

Winner of the Prime Minister’s Award, the Vienna Mayor’s Award, the Gdańsk Mayor’s Award, the Sobolewski Award of the Polish Society of Oncology, and the Joseph W. Cullen Award of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, among others. Winner of the Outstanding Pole Competition organized by the Polish Promotional Emblem Foundation “Teraz Polska.” Holder of an honorary doctorate from the Medical University of Lodz.

He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of the Polish Society of Oncology, was a member of the Executive Board and Chairman of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), and member of the Executive Boards of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO). Currently, he chairs the Central and East European Oncology Group (CEEOG) and the Polish Cancer League. Professor Jassem actively engages in the area of public health and his activities include the drafting of the law banning smoking in public places (introduced in 2010) and the coordination of the drafting of the Cancer Control Strategy for Poland 2015–2024.

Member of the FNP Council from September 1, 2024.

He conducted research in many foreign centers, such as: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in Minneapolis (postdoctoral fellowship), Emory University in Atlanta (as visiting professor in 1994-2012), Cambridge University, Universidade de S'o Paulo, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Rockefeller University in New York, Universität Bielefeld, Microsoft Research Center in Redmond, the University of Melbourne, Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in Los Angeles, the University of Edinburgh.

Łuczak presented his research results, among other places, at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Madrid 2008), the European Congress of Mathematics (Paris 1992, Stockholm 2004, Krakow 2012), and Congreso Latinoamericano de Matemáticos (Santiago 2009). He was awarded with Kazimierz Kuratowski Prize (1991), the Prize of the European Mathematical Society (1992), the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in exact sciences (1997), the Stefan Banach Medal (2014), and the Wacław Sierpiński Medal (2018). Since 1998, Łuczak has been a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Member of the FNP Council since September 1, 2020.

Ostaszewski specializes in contemporary behavioral psychology, which includes the relational frame theory as a concept of specifically human linguistic skills, decision-making in the context of deferred, uncertain, and effortful gains and losses, behavioral discounting processes, and the concept of psychological flexibility in regard to acceptance and commitment therapy and training. Ostaszewski has authored or co-authored more than one hundred publications on these themes. He conducted research in collaboration with scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, visiting the university on numerous occasions between 1992 and 1998 as Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor. Ostaszewski received the Kosciuszko Foundation scholarship. He presented his research findings at many international scientific conferences and promoted as many as twelve doctors. He is a member of the Psychology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences since the 2016–2020 term. He is Vice-President of the Polish Society for Behavioral Psychology and an honorary member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science Poland.

Member of the FNP Council from September 1, 2024.

Szweykowska-Kulińska specializes in plant molecular biology with a particular focus on RNA metabolism, including biogenesis and microRNA function. Her research centers on two model plants, Arabidopsis thaliana and Marchantia polymorpha, and on two commercial crop species, potato and barley, in the context of plant responses to abiotic stress such as drought and high temperature. She has conducted research at various European institutes, namely the University of Würzburg in Germany (Humboldt Research Fellowship), CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette in France (EMBO Fellowship), and John Innes Centre in Norwich in the UK (a European Commission project). Professor Szweykowska-Kulińska has completed or is in the process of completing 26 research grants funded by the Committee for Scientific Research of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre and three EU projects. She authored more than one hundred publications featured in PubMed, including articles in Nature Plants, PNAS, The EMBO Journal, Plant Biotech Journal, Genome Biology, EMBO Reports, Nucleic Acids Research, New Phytologist, and Plant Cell.

Szweykowska-Kulińska received numerous awards: from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for her lifetime scientific achievements, from the Minister of Science and Higher Education for her outstanding scientific achievements, from Division II of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Biochemical Society, the Polish Genetic Society, and the Polish Society for Experimental Plant Biology. Furthermore, Szweykowska-Kulińska co-edited and translated English-language textbooks on biochemistry and molecular biology, including the seminal textbook Biochemistry by Lubert Stryer (several editions). She is a member of Academia Europea, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), and the Polish Academy of Sciences. For many years, she was a member of the Central Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles and of the Council for Scientific Excellence in its first term. She reviewed projects and participated in evaluation panels of research funding agencies, such as the French National Research Agency (ANR), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), as well as the FNP and Poland’s Nation Science Centre (NCN). She held administrative positions at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, including the position of Vice-Rector, of Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biology, and that of Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Biology. She was a member of the FNP’s Ethics and Good Practice Commission and of the chapter of the Polish-French Science Award bestowed by the FNP and the French Academy of Sciences.

Member of the FNP Council from September 1, 2024.