National Science Centre awards top honors to three Polish researchers

The National Science Centre (NCN) has announced the winners of its 14th annual awards, presented on October 14 at the Wawel Royal Castle in Krakow. The ceremony marked the culmination of the NCN's 15th-anniversary celebrations.

The laureates, representing the next generation of researchers in Polish institutions, include mathematician Piotr Achinger, biologist Paweł Sikorski, and archaeologist Dawid Kobiałka.

Piotr Achinger, a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was recognized for his breakthrough work in algebraic geometry, specifically regarding algebraic varieties over fields of positive characteristic and non-Archimedean fields.

Paweł Sikorski, a professor at the University of Warsaw, received the award for his biological research.

Dawid Kobiałka, an archaeologist from the University of Łódź, was honored for his interdisciplinary research into mass crime sites from World War II. His work includes documenting and locating the remains of victims in locations such as the Valley of Death in Chojnice.