Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham received an honorary doctorate from the Warsaw University of Technology. This outstanding chemist, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize, has gained recognition for his work on lithium-ion batteries. This area has also been developed for years by scientists from the Warsaw University of Technology. Why is this such an important topic? What is worth knowing about it? And what is it like to know a Nobel Prize winner?

How many times have you heard that Polish scientists create publications and receive patents that only a few specialists know of? A team from the Warsaw University of Technology Faculty of Chemistry shows that our solutions may become a breakthrough, be recognized internationally and introduced to the market.

Our University welcomed Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham – winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He received an honorary doctorate from the Warsaw University of Technology, and also met with representatives of the University of Technology and gave an open lecture.

TU Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland) join the ENHANCE Alliance on its journey towards a European University. The ENHANCE Alliance includes the Warsaw University of Technology.

From the Warsaw University of Technology to space? It’s possible! Pablo Álvarez Fernández, who graduated from our university, is one of the astronauts selected by the European Space Agency.

Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham – a world-renowned chemist, co-founder of lithium-ion battery technology and 2019 Nobel Prize winner was awarded a honoris causa doctorate from the Warsaw University of Technology. This is a token of appreciation for the contribution of the researcher in the development of science and its practical use.

Professor M. Stanley Whittingham will talk about the role of energy storage in the context of electric economy and climate change. The lecture will take place on 22 November 2022 at 14:15 in the Hall of the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology. Attendance is free of charge.

1-3 December, 10.00-18.00

Prof. M. Stanley Whittingham will visit our University on November 21-22, 2022

SmartHEAL, a smart dressing created by graduates and currently PhD students, won the James Dyson Award competition. The solution is to help heal chronic wounds.

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A students team from the Faculty of Chemistry has won the competition ”Drive Innovation – Future of Sustainable Transport”. They have proposed limitation of exhaust fumes with the use of third-generation PV cells.

The Warsaw University of Technology has been ranked in four fields of the international ranking THE by Subject 2023. These are: Computer Science, Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Business and Economics.

Our students, doctoral students and WUT staff have been developing space projects for years. They shared the results of their latest works during the 73^rd International Astronautical Congress. Representatives of the University of Technology talked about rockets, Earth exploration, communication and power systems in space and an interesting use of artificial intelligence.

The widespread use of cars poses a challenge in organizing traffic in cities. It also makes it difficult to work on maps created from satellite pictures. Szymon Bogus from the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology has found a solution to this problem. Artificial Intelligence has turned out to be the key to success.

In the German city of Darmstadt, a device is being constructed that will help in the study of matter and the evolution of the universe. Thanks to the Get_involved internship program, our students, postgraduates, and researchers will participate in the international project.

Our researchers in the World's TOP 2% Scientists 2021 ranking

A drug management system developed by students of Warsaw University of Technology won the e-Health Hackathon programming marathon.

The idea of building a factory in Poland to produce sodium-ion batteries was discussed during a meeting at the Warsaw University of Technology by representatives of the government, science and business.

After last year’s victory in the national eliminations, Kamil Kwiatkowski and Przemysław Rył from the Faculty of Mechatronics participated in the world final of the WorldSkills competition in Stuttgart. Our students were awarded the “Medallion of Excellence”.

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Dr Monika Mitew-Czajewska of the Faculty of Civil Engineering was selected as member of the Executive Council of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association for the term 2022-2025.

We invite our students and doctoral students to submit for the Christmas Grant 2022 – a special grant awarded to students and doctoral students at the Warsaw University of Technology involved in promoting the University and building its positive image. The grant is financed by the resources collected during the WUT Christmas Fair.

Prof. Mychailo Zgurovsky, Rector of the National Technical University of Ukraine – the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, visited our university. He met the current WUT Rector, Prof. Krzysztof Zaremba and the WUT Recor for the years 2005-2012, Prof. Włodzimierz Kurnik.

A team from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology has developed a new medicine design procedure that can be applied when there is little experimental data available on the molecular mechanisms of a disease or ways to treat it. The developed procedure is the result of the work of student Stanisław Kulczyk and associate professor Dr. Mariola Koszytkowska-Stawińska.