2000 jobs at Łukasiewicz

The Łukasiewicz Research Network will create two thousand attractive jobs in the research and development sector in the next two years. This plan was announced during a conference on November 25 at the Łukasiewicz – PIMOT in Warsaw.

The development of the scientific staff at the Network Institutes aims to help to respond to the growing interest in the Łukasiewicz Challenges program. Within three years, experts from the Łukasiewicz Research Network have responded to nearly 2,000 challenges posed by entrepreneurs, helping them find innovative solutions to technological problems. Over 800 companies have already benefited from this unique support system.

Innovators will join teams conducting advanced research projects. They will include both world-renowned scientists and those just starting their professional careers.

At the conference, Łukasiewicz – PORT was represented by: Andrzej Dybczyński, Ph.D. – director of the Institute, Michał Ślęzak, Ph.D. – leader of the Biology of Astrocytes Group, M. Danang Birowosuto, Ph.D. – leader of the Photonic Materials & Structures Group, and Heng-Chang Chen, Ph.D. – Junior PI at the Center for Population Diagnostics. As representatives of the Institute, with about 20% of employees from abroad in the R&D department, they took part in a panel dedicated to the acquisition (and recovery) of the world’s top scientists. During the discussion, they talked about the scientists’ recruitment by an international panel of experts, why foreign scientists decide to work at Łukasiewicz – PORT, what they do here, and how they build their teams.

Several hundred guests took part in the conference, including students from the best science clubs in the country, Olympians, newly hired employees of Łukasiewicz, as well as ministers, rectors, and media representatives.