Warsaw University of Technology is the organizer of a new initiative to promote talented scientists and the development of space technologies, with a particular focus on aerospace propulsion. Support will be offered through the Professor Piotr Wolański Scholarship. The founders of the scholarship are: Łukasiewicz – Institute of Aviation, the Professor’s family and the Bisek multibranch company, while the organizer is the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Mechanics of the Warsaw University of Technology.
The new initiative is intended to encourage scientists to explore knowledge in the aforementioned topic in the course of writing their doctoral thesis, as well as to support them financially. The winner will receive a scholarship of PLN 6,000 gross per month paid for one academic year. The activity is aimed at full-time doctoral students in their first year of doctoral school who will pursue their doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology. The prerequisite is a defended master’s thesis in the field of space technology, in particular aerospace propulsion, and continuation of scientific work in this field.
“Professor Wolański was one of the most eminent Polish scientists, and his work has inspired and continues to inspire scientists from Poland and around the world. We owe a great deal to his vast knowledge and experience. It is a great honor for us to be one of the funders of such a unique initiative and to jointly support scientists involved in space technologies,” says Paweł Stężycki, Ph.D., director of Łukasiewicz – Institute of Aviation.
Professor Piotr Wolański has been the recipient of many awards and honors. He received, among others, the A. K. Oppenheim in 1989 from ICDERS, USA. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Military Academy in Warsaw (2015), the Officer’s Cross of the President of the Republic of Poland in (2005), the award of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for lifetime achievement in scientific research (2012) and the Medal of the Warsaw University of Technology (2014). The professor passed away in 2023.
Applications for the scholarship are accepted from October 1 to 31, 2024.
