The local government of the Lodz Voivodeship awarded a grant of PLN 385,000 to Lodz University of Technology for a research and teaching laboratory called RobOKOp-LAB, which will use oculography, i.e. visual activity tracking. The laboratory will conduct research on the nature and methods of work in the future.

A research and teaching laboratory using oculography (visual activity tracking): RobOKOp-LAB will established at Lodz University of Technology. The local government of the Lodz Voivodeship awarded TUL a grant of 385 thousand PLN for this laboratory.

Article written by Ewa Chojnacka, editor-in-chief

Researchers from Lodz University of Technology have won a prestigious EUROfusion Engineering Grants (EEG), awarded for the first time to Polish scientists. The team will conduct research on the system monitoring the production of fusion plasma.

Chronic and intense stress causes mental and physical health problems such as mental disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, substance abuse), cardiovascular, musculoskeletal disorders, negatively affects the immune system, fertility, and produces many other symptoms. It contributes to many disabilities and may cause a severe economic burden. The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic is yet to be fully understood. Switching to an online model has been a challenge for both educators and students. Researchers from Poland, Spain, and Estonia are working on chill spots to help solve these civilization problems.

Article written by Dorota Kamińska, Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems

The cooperation of Lodz University of Technology with a global industrial partner - ZME EMIT S.A., which is part of the Cantoni Group - opens the door for implementing specially dedicated grants from the National Centre for Research and Development or the European Union.

Lodz University of Technology has become a member of the European consortium of innovative universities. As the only university in Poland, TUL has joined the elite network of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU).

Appendix of 6.12.2021 to the Announcement of the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs of Lodz University of Technology of 16.06.2021 on the amount of particular types of benefits for students and participants of doctoral studies at Lodz University of Technology in the academic year 2021/22.

At a time when the question of a third dose of vaccine for all is on the table, research using advanced computer simulations and atomic force microscope has revealed more stable—and therefore more difficult to break—bindings of SARS-CoV-2 variants to receptors in our cells. Combined with the loss of affinity of some antibodies for variant spike proteins, these results beg the question of adapting the vaccine to the variants rather than administering a third dose of existing vaccines.

Article written by Adolfo Poma Bernaola, ICRI-BioM (https://icri-biom.p.lodz.pl/) 

Dear all, employees, students and doctoral students of Lodz University of Technology

I have repeatedly expressed my wishes and, at the same time, my hidden desire to return to normal work, face-to-face education and to at least try to forget about the coronavirus threat as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the current situation does not make it possible to fulfil these wishes in full. The virus is still very aggressive, mutating and taking more lives.

Lodz University of Technology is a partner in the implementation project "Development of an innovative technology for continuous lyophilisation of strawberries with on-line control and optimisation of product quality parameters based on artificial intelligence algorithms and spectral measurements". The work conducted at our university is headed by Assoc. Prof. Eng. Paweł Wawrzyniak, from the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering, who writes about the effects planned in the project.

Article written by Paweł Wawrzyniak, Department of Environmental Engineering