Three new Dioscuri Centres to be launched in Krakow, Poland

Mikolaj Fraczyk © private Mikolaj Fraczyk © private - Two life scientists and a mathematician succeed in the fourth call against a strong field of applicants from around the world   Mikolaj Fraczyk, Przemyslaw Nogly and Mateusz Sikora will establish three new Dioscuri Centres at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. The three Polish-born scientists, currently working in Germany, Switzerland and the US, will return to Poland over the next year and a half thanks to support from the Dioscuri Programme. The winners of the fourth international call for Dioscuri Centres published by the Max Planck Society and the National Science Centre Poland (NCN) will join the five Dioscuri Centres already established in Warsaw. Mikolaj Fraczyk, Dioscuri Centre in Random Walks in Geometry and Topology. Mikolaj Fraczyk , currently Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago, first studied Pure Mathematics at Jagiellonian University in Krakow before moving to the Université Paris-Sud in France. After completing his award-winning doctoral thesis in 2017 in France, he stayed as a post-doc at the Renyi Institute in Budapest and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In fall 2023, Fraczyk will establish a Dioscuri Centre in Random Walks in Geometry and Topology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences at the Jagiellonian University. He will be supported by his partner from Germany, Roman Sauer from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). What motivated you to apply for a Dioscuri Centre and set up your new research group in Poland?