Attachment to SOB/ KJ/ DOG-AMP/2025/1

IT specialist position in the scientific project Deep optimized generation for antimicrobial peptide discovery (DOG-AMP) financed by the European Commission (grant agreement no 101125506) The ERC project Deep optimized generation for antimicrobial peptide discovery (DOG-AMP), led by prof. Ewa Szczurek, is offering one collaborator position in the Institute of Informatics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw.

Terms of employment
Selected candidates will be employed on an IT specialist position on 25% working time. The duration of employment is one year with possible prolongation. The expected starting date is not earlier than the 1st of December 2025, up to an agreement between the candidate and the principal investigator. The offered salary combined (basic salary approx. 1260 PLN gross/month plus project bonus) is around PLN 2260 gross/month.

Description of the project
A particular focus of the offered position swill be on novel artificial intelligence methods for antimicrobial peptide design. The artificial intelligence focus will be topological data analysis and their integration into generative AI. The projects involve strong collaborations with international experimental partners. The positions are funded by the prestigious ERC Consolidator grant DOG-AMP.

Requirements

A university degree (at least BSc or Eng.) or minimum of 5 years of work experience (candidates with high school diploma) is a must.

We expect that candidates at the moment of employment have an excellent background in mathematics and computer science. Good command of English is required. A good understanding of fundamental theoretical concepts in generative AI and topological data analysis is needed, as well as strong programming skills combined with a mathematical mindset. The candidates should have interest in addressing clinical and biomedical questions.

Applications
An application should include Curriculum Vitae that presents an overview of the background and scientific achievements of the candidate.
In addition to the above, there should be attached a signed personal data clause (attached).
Applications, as well as further questions on both the scientific topic of the project and on formal details of the call procedure, should be directed to prof. Ewa Szczurek:
em.szczurek@uw.edu.pl

To apply for the position, candidates should send an e-mail and submit the documents as attached .pdf files.

Application deadline: 17th of November, 2025

Applications that do not satisfy the above requirements or are submitted after the deadline will not be considered for the position.

The applications will be evaluated by a selection committee appointed by the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, University of Warsaw. The committee may invite the candidate to a meeting, which will be conducted remotely. The results of the competition will be sent to candidates electronically on 20th of November, 2025 at the latest.

We invite you to a meeting as part of the MIM Colloquium, where new faculty members will present their research areas. The event will take place on November 6, 2025, at 2:30 PM in room 2180.

• N. Chaudhuri (partial differential equations)
• M. Gryszówka (partial differential equations)
• P. Jaśniewski (homological algebra)
• J. Kołodziejski (logic in computer science)

The dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, with the consent of the Rector of the University of Warsaw, announces a competition for the position of assistant professor (pol. adiunkt) in the NCN OPUS project no. 2024/53/B/ST1/03470 entitled "Homological problems in knot theory".

The aim of the project is to study properties of Khovanov homology for knots. We emphasize on studying Khovanov homology for strongly quasipositive knots.

Head of the project: dr hab. Maciej Borodzik.

We are announcing a competition for a postdoctoral position (assistant professor) in the Sonata Bis “Quest for Optimality in Variants of Text Indexing and Related Problems” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2022/46/E/ST6/00463).

Principal investigator: dr hab. Jakub Radoszewski.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POSTDOC – SONATA BIS" to: j.radoszewski@uw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format.

Deadline: November 15, 2025.

We are pleased that our Computer Science studies were again recognized in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking!
University of Warsaw took places 176-200; this is the best result for a Polish university!

We are announcing a competition for a post-doc position in the QuantERA “PhoMemtor – Quantum photonic memristor networks” research project, funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2021/03/Y/ST2/00177).

Principal investigator: dr hab. Magdalena Stobińska, prof. ucz.

To apply for the position, the candidate should send an e-mail entitled "POSTDOC - PhoMemtor" to: mstobinska@mimuw.edu.pl, attaching the required documents in PDF file format.

Deadline: November 10, 2025.

We are announcing a competition for a research scholarship for a PhD student in the research project "High-Dimensional Data Processing Using Sample Compression and Dimensionality Reduction", funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (2023/51/B/ST6/02989). Principal investigator: Dr. Kunal Dutta.

Applications should be sent to: k.dutta@mimuw.edu.pl
by October 10, 2025, 23.59 at the latest.

The most prestigious conference in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, NeurIPS, has accepted 10 papers with our Faculty affiliation for the event! We are very proud with this recognition and congratulate (in alphabetical order): Hubert Baniecki, Przemysław Bieck, Marek Cygan, Piotr Miłoś, Michał Nauman, Szymon Płotka, Bartłomiej Sobieski, Piotr Skowron, Konrad Staniszewski, Ewa Szczurek, Michał Zawalski, and Alicja Ziarko.

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 13 November 2025 at 04:30 PM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Linear Algebra in Orbit-finite Dimension
Supervisor: Prof. Sławomir Lasota (University of Warsaw)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Piotr Hofman (University of Warsaw)

Google DeepMind, a global leader in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research, has for the fifth time funded two scholarships intended for female students who:

• Are commencing their second-cycle (Master’s) studies this academic year in one of the following fields at the University of Warsaw (UW): Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Data Science and Business Analytics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, or Applications of Physics in Biology and Medicine,

• Intend to prepare their Master’s thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and their applications.

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 21 October 2025 at 02:00 PM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: Computational Methods for Leading-Edge Mass Spectrometry Techniques
Supervisors: Prof. Anna Gambin (University of Warsaw), Assoc. Prof. Jakub Karasiński (University of Warsaw)

The public defence of the doctoral dissertation will take place on 28 October 2025 at 12:00 PM in room 2180 (sala RW) in the building of the MIMUW Faculty at 2 Banacha Street, Warsaw.

Title of the dissertation: The Logical Strength of Ramsey-Theoretic Principles over a Weak Base Theory
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Leszek Kołodziejczyk (University of Warsaw)

PhD scholarship in the NCN SONATA BIS project 2023/50/E/ST1/00336 "Geometry structures behind tensors" October 2025 - September 2027: results.
The scholarship was awarded to Jakub Jagiełła.

During the summer holidays, in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, International Mathematical Competition took place. Our MIM FORCE ONE team won two first-degree prizes and two second-degree prizes:
Adam Naskręcki - 80 points, First Prize (gold medal)
Korneliusz Obarski - 60 points, First Prize (gold medal)
Paweł Pielasa - 46 points, Second Prize (silver medal)
Szymon Szmigielski - 46 points, Second Prize (silver medal)

Huge congratulations to our students and their tutor, Dr. Rafał Martynek!

We invite you to a workshop preceded by a two-day tutorial on Data Assimilatio - a key-pillar of modern weather forecasting.

If you are interested, but new to the topic, we encourage to take part in the proceeding tutorial.

Please register in advance. There is no registration fee for participants from the University of Warsaw.