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Mahrokh selected for the doctoral studies

01 08 2026

Mahrokh Yengejeh, PhD student in our group, has been admitted to the Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences of the UW, for the recruitment in the academic year 2026/2027 ...

Hot exciton dissociation in Nature Communications

31 07 2026

Silvio Osella contributed to the paper "Hot exciton dissociation in graphene nanoribbons", published in Nature Communications. This collaborative paper presents graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) as a model system to investigate exciton dissociation, and particularly ...

Nature Chemistry featured contribution

31 07 2026

A team led by Xinliang Feng at the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, with contribution from Silvio Osella in our group at the University of Warsaw, reports a new shielding ...

Bachelor degree for Łukasz Cieszyński

16 07 2026

On Wednesday 15th of July, Łukasz Cieszyński obtained his bachelor degree at the faculty of Chemistry of the University of Warsaw. Congratulations!

Mapslab at MACCS3 conference in Cagliari

28 06 2026

Silvio Osella participated in the 3rd International Workshop on "Modeling and Characterization of Complex Systems" held in Cagliari, Italy, from June 22–24, 2026. The event brought together researchers working at ...

Emerging Talent Award to Mateusz

21 06 2026

Mateusz Wlazło obtained the Emerging Talent Award of the year 2026 at the NanoSeries conference held at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy).   Congratulations!

Mapslab at nanoSeries2026 in Turin

20 06 2026

Three members of our group participated in the international  conference held at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, from June 15–17, 2026. The event brought together researchers working at the forefront ...

Silvio Osella appointed as university professor

21 05 2026

On May 20th, the Senate of the University of Warsaw appointed the group leader, Silvio Osella, as university professor (profesor uczelni).   Congratulations!

New frontiers in photocatalysis with converted fertilizer material

29 04 2026

We published a collaborative study with researchers from Politecnico di Torino, focusing on the design and characterization of advanced photocatalytic materials for light-driven energy conversion. In this work, we contributed ...

Mapslab at MATSUS Spring

28 03 2026

Three members of our group participated in the international  conference held in Barcelona, Spain, from March 23–27, 2026. The event brought together researchers working at the forefront of materials science, ...

Mateusz distinguished by the Rector

06 03 2026

Dr Mateusz Wlazło, postdoc from the group, was among the researchers from the University of Warsaw that were honored with the Rector's Distinction for the year 2024. The awards ceremony ...

Featured Angewandte Chemie paper

03 03 2026

Silvio Osella contributed to the paper "Surface-State–Regulated Product Distribution in Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation Over MXene-Based S-Scheme Catalyst", published in Angewandte Chemie. It has been selected for inclusion in two Wiley ...

Matteo Spotti completes his fellowship

26 02 2026

Today we are saying goodbye to Matteo Spotti. As part of his PhD studies, we hosted him for a few weeks during which he completed a fellowship under the supervision ...

New ChemComm paper available online

13 02 2026

Don't miss this new communication from the cross-RSC collection marking the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology! "A practical computational protocol for photocatalytic reactions beyond ground-state approximations" by Mateusz ...

Łukasz gets an award for his poster

06 02 2026

Łukasz Cieszyński received the Best Poster Award at the 16th edition of the CπC Symposium held at University of Warsaw. His contribution "Modelling of enhanced oxygen to water electroreduction using ...