Dr. Magdalena Dudek from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology has secured nearly PLN 650,000 through Poland’s National Science Centre’s Sonatina 9 programme to advance her research on optimising the composition of nanocrystals for energy transfer applications.
Her project explores the use of lanthanide-doped nanocrystals in Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), a process critical for understanding biological phenomena such as DNA hybridisation and protein folding. Dudek aims to investigate new ion pairings beyond those commonly studied, potentially expanding their use in cutting-edge technologies.
The grant will also fund an international research placement at McMaster University in Canada, where Dudek will work under leading FRET expert Prof. Niko Hildebrandt. The Sonatina programme, designed for early-career scientists, awarded funding to 50 projects this year out of 249 submissions, totalling more than PLN 44.7 million.
Source: Wrocław University of Science and Technology
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