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Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre (International Research Agendas programme of the Foundation for Polish Science, supported by the ERDF under SG OP, Priority Axis 4, Measure 4.3).
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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Azam Zabihi for receiving the prestigious MINIATURA‑9 grant from the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki)!

We are delighted to see her dedication recognised, and we look forward to supporting her work and celebrating the achievements that will follow.
dr azam zabihi congratulation post
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position at Astrocent!
More information: lnkd.in/dEc8dNME
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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What an evening! On the 4 Nov, we celebrated #DarkMatterDay 2025 with a captivating lecture by Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski. Huge thanks to everyone involved in organising this inspiring event!
Read more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl?p=8538
A presenter explains a slide about dark matter in galaxies to an audience during the public lecture. A speaker presents information about Astrocent during the Dark Matter Day public lecture, with a slide projected behind her. Audience members listen attentively during the Dark Matter Day 2025 event at Astrocent. A young woman listens with interest during the Dark Matter Day 2025 event at Astrocent.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Congrats to our former postdoc Dr Kimura (supervised by Prof. Masayuki Wada) for receiving the 20th Young Encouragement Prize of the Physical Society of Japan for his #DarkSide-50 #darkmatter study — conducted at Astrocent — and for his new role as Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo! 🎉
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November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Join us for the next Astroparticle Frontiers seminar with Dr. Yue-Lin Sming Tsai!

📅 Thursday, November 6, 2025
🕑 2 PM (CET)
📍 Rektorska 4, room 5.05, Warsaw
🔗 Zoom: princeton.zoom.us/j/97132651029
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November 4, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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We took part in #LIDINE2025 in China 🇨🇳, contributing 3 presentations — 2 talks and a poster — on noble-element detector technologies.
🏅 Congratulations to Diego Rodas Rodríguez, who received a poster award for the innovative work on cryogenic detector applications!
Proud moment!💡
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Researcher presenting at the LIDINE 2025 conference in Hong Kong. The slide on screen discusses ‘Dark Matter detection challenges,’ and the audience is seated with laptops and notebooks in a conference room setting. “Speaker giving a presentation at the Sheraton Hotel in Hong Kong during the LIDINE 2025 conference. The slide on screen is titled ‘What is PET and Why?’ and explains Positron Emission Tomography as a non-invasive imaging technique for visualising biochemical function in tissues.
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Astrocent’s Leszek Roszkowski and Marta Borowiec joined the 4th Teaming Club Conference in Portugal 🇵🇹 — connecting with Centres of Excellence across Europe to share ideas and build lasting collaborations. 🌍

#TeamingForExcellence
Teaming Club Prof. Leszek Roszkowski
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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New energy, new ideas, new discoveries ahead! ⚡️ Four amazing researchers are joining the Astrocent team - welcome Rita, Miroslav, Pedro, and Sebastian! 🌌

Check out full bios of our new team members at: astrocent.camk.edu.pl

#team #Astrocent #CAMKPAN
Sebastian Trojanowski Miroslav Macko Pedro Silva Rita Antonietti
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Our Comms Officer, Magda Jakubiak, spent the day at the Illustrated Communication Festival surrounded by fresh ideas on how to use visual communication. We’re proud to see our teammates keeping their curiosity alive!

#TeamingforExcellence #EU #HorizonEurope #communication
photos from the Illustrated Communication Festival in Gdansk, Poland photos from the Illustrated Communication Festival in Gdansk, Poland
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Uff, what a week we have had at the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting (6–10.10), full of engagement! From daily presentation sessions to a schedule rich with social activities. Thank you, CERN, for entrusting us to deliver an enjoyable experience for our guests.
Find out more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl
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October 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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On Monday, we are starting a special gathering as the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting lands in Warsaw - its first edition outside CERN! This global event brings together leading researchers in gas radiation detector development. The countdown is on!

#DRD1Meeting #ParticleAstrophysics
DRD1 Collaboration Meeting in Warsaw, 2025
October 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Astrocent joined the APPEC Town Meeting in Zaragoza (22–25 Sept 2025).
Prof. Roszkowski (APPEC GA Deputy Chair) and Prof. Kuźniak (APPEC SAC) took part in plenaries & round tables shaping the next European strategy in #AstroparticlePhysics.
Briefing book out this summer → roadmap next year. 🚀
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October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Between September 7th - 18th, we were rooting for Samuel Belayneh while he attended the respected Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025. 💪We are on track with our Astrocent Plus project and excited to see where this journey leads!

#summerschool #GranSassoHandson2025
Group photo from Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025 - PhD summer school on experimental astroparticle physics Group photo from Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025 - PhD summer school on experimental astroparticle physics Scientists during their work, photo from Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025 - PhD summer school on experimental astroparticle physics.
October 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🌟 On Sept 21, 2025, CAMK opened its doors for the Festiwal Nauki! 🚀 Visitors explored lectures, VR journeys, a planetarium, sunspot observations & more. 👉 Astrocent was proud to contribute, bringing science closer to everyone. ✨
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September 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The Astroparticle Frontiers Seminar Series is back! We’re kicking off the season next Thursday, Sept 25, at 2 pm, with a deep dive into neutrino detection in dark matter experiments.

👤 Featuring Dr. Ricardo Peres (Imperial College of London)

🎙️Tune in: tinyurl.com/pjckct6r
#Astroparticle
September 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Astrocent at #TAUP2025 (Aug 24–30, Xichang)! Prof. Masayuki Wada on light #darkmatter with DarkSide-20k & DarkSide-LowMass, and Michal Olszewski on DEAP-3600’s sensitivity to supermassive gravitinos. 🌌
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Two Astrocent members smiling in front of the TAUP 2025 conference screen in Xichang, China. A man speaking at TAUP 2025, with a slide showing features of noble liquid detectors projected on the screen. A man presenting at TAUP 2025, standing at a podium with a slide titled “Plan” projected behind him.
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Astrocent (NCAC PAS) has signed an MoU with @cern.bsky.social to join the DRD1 Collaboration! 🚀 We’ll help develop cutting-edge gaseous detector tech for future physics experiments - and we’re hosting the next DRD1 meeting in Warsaw, 6–10 Oct 2025!
#DRD1 #collaboration
July 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Astrocent at #IBER2025! 🇪🇸
Dr. André Cortez presented on boosting light collection for next-gen #darkmatter detectors - key for rare-event searches. Great collaboration with University of Coimbra, @Universidade de Aveiro & IGFAE!
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July 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Dr. Azam Zabihi (Astrocent/NCAC) is visiting IHEP in Beijing as part of the PROBES Project to work on cryogenic systems and TPC technology. On July 16, she presented a seminar on using xenon-doped liquid argon scintillators for advanced PET scanners in medical physics.
#HorizonEurope
Four researchers stand in a laboratory next to a complex cryogenic and detector setup with stainless steel tubes, cables, and sensors. Behind them is an open control cabinet with wiring, monitors showing data plots, and electronic equipment on tables. A researcher wearing a colorful floral headscarf and light clothing is working on an experimental cryogenic detector system with aluminum foil-wrapped components and connected blue wires. Laboratory shelves with tools and containers are visible in the background. A researcher in a floral headscarf stands beside a tall cryogenic detector system with multiple cables and control sensors. Computer monitors in the background display real-time data charts and graphs. A researcher in a patterned headscarf stands next to a large presentation screen showing the title: ‘A Novel Total-Body PET Scanner Using Xenon-Doped Liquid Argon Scintillator for Outstanding Detection.’ Logos of collaborating institutions and projects are visible at the bottom.
July 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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We are hiring! Applications are invited for a postdoc at Astrocent / NCAC PAS.
The successful applicant will work on the project “Understanding delayed (spurious) emission mechanisms in dual-phase TPCs for #DarkMatter searches"
Job description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/357373
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July 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🎓 On June 26, our team member Sarthak Choudhary defended his PhD at NCAC PAS! Title: Optimisation of Light Collection in LAr Detectors and Modelling PSD for Dark Matter Searches. Congrats to Sarthak and his supervisor, Prof. Marcin Kuźniak! 👏 #PhDDefense #DarkMatter #NCN #Opus
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June 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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🧪 Our new JINST article reports results from 2023 CERN campaign! PEN film shows stable light-shifting in LAr over 12 days - key for future neutrino/dark matter detectors.
With TUM, UZH, U. Edinburgh, Nikhef, INFN Bologna, CERN, UH Manoa.
#DarkWave #H2020 #PENfilm
Diagram and photo of a particle detection setup. Left: a schematic of a test volume showing VUV and visible photon paths, a PMT, source holder positions, and gaps in the foil. Right: two people in cleanroom suits standing beside the assembled detector frame, partially covered with reflective foil.
June 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Astrocent joined the DarkSide-20k summer meeting in Sardinia (2–6 June), working with global partners to push the search for #darkmatter forward. WIMPs beware - we’re coming for you with 20 tonnes of liquid argon! 💡🕳️
Astrocent team members posing together during the DarkSide-20k summer collaboration meeting in Sardinia, June 2025. The group stands in front of a tree with a pool area and greenery in the background. A calm seashore in Sardinia with ‘ACNT’ written in the sand.
June 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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On 29 May, Astrocent's PhD student Wathela Alhassan successfully defended his thesis on using deep learning to detect binary black hole signals for the Einstein Telescope. Congrats to Dr. Alhassan, his supervisors, and reviewers! 👏 @einsteintelescope.bsky.social
#PhDDefense
June 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Prof. Leszek Roszkowski 🇱🇹🇱🇻 (12–16 May): showcased #AstrocentPlus at #DeepTechAtelier2025 🚀, met #SustAInLivWork (Kaunas) & #COMART2 (Riga) to boost research excellence. Building bridges for science without borders! 🌌✨ #HorizonEU #WIDERA
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May 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM