International attraction
At present, the Institute consists of 14 Departments and 12 Specialized Laboratories in which theoretical and applied studies are conducted. Among them eight Departments and four Laboratories are engaged in the surface-related research.
Results are presented at many national and international conferences and symposia, they are published in scientific journals and as monographs; some results are applied in industry. Interdisciplinary attitude of the IPCh to science requires a large co-operation between the Departments and with other research centres. Active participation of the scientists from the Institute in international events attracts other centres for co-operation. In 1997-2001, the scientists from the Institute delivered about 150 plenary and invited lectures at international conferences and workshops, and almost 150 lectures in scientific institutions centres abroad.
Every year more than 100 scientists from Europe, America and Asia visit our Institute. Years 1997 and 2000 were particularly effective in respect of the visits – in 1997, 445 scientists and in 2000, 651 visited the IPCh. Majority of visits is connected with the participation in conferences and symposia. Many scientists from Europe and other continents collaborate with the Institute by giving lectures and conducting studies. Our high-standard equipment stimulates foreign researchers to perform experiments in our Laboratories. In 2001, fourteen PhD students from Ukraine and Russia worked in the Institute.
SURPHARE leads the long-term co-operation with scientific institutions in Europe and on other continents. The Centre carries out studies within 11 international and national research projects. It collaborates with industry plants, such as power stations and refineries. Competence of the scientists and good knowledge of foreign languages (English is spoken by almost all the researchers; German, French and Russian are less popular) enable the researchers from the Institute to co-operate with institutions in other countries.
In the past, much effort has been made in the Institute to facilitate international exchange. Numerous effective cooperation were developed. Research in the field of surface science is particularly vulnerable to extend of access to advanced equipment. Future activity will take advantage of these international contacts.
The professionals co-operate with many various university departments, industrial laboratories, and individual plants in Poland and more than 30 in 14 European countries, mostly in Germany and France, within programs of State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN):
Poland:
- Jagiellonian University, Krakow
- Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, PAS, Krakow
- University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow
- Department of Carbochemistry PAS, Gliwice
- Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS, Warsaw
- Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Warsaw
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, PAS, Warsaw
- Institute of Plastics Processing, Warsaw
- Military University of Technology, Warsaw
- Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw
- Warsaw University, Warsaw
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Wrocław University, Wrocław
- Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Investigations, PAS, Wrocław
- Power Station „Kozienice”, Świerże Górne
- Research & Development Centre of the Refinery Industry, Płock
- Institute of Plastics and Synthetic Fabrics, Toruń
Europe:
- Institute of Catalysis, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
- University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Physique, Lyon, France
- Lab. De Chimie Metallurgique et Spectroscopie des Terres Rares, CNRS, Thiais, France
- Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide Minérale, Université H.Poincaré, Nancy, France
- Laboratoire de Réactivité de Surface, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
- LASMEA, University of Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Universite Paris 6, Physique Theorique des Liquides, Paris, France
- Department of Physics, University of Muenster, Germany
- HASYLAB Synchrotron Laboratory at DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- IFF, Forshungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute fur Physikalische Chemie, der Freien Universitat, Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Max Planck Institut fuer Kolloid- und Grenzflaechenforschung, Potsdam, Germany
- Max-Planck Institute, Golm, Germany
- Max-Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
- Institute for Nuclear Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary
- Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
- University of Szeged, Hungary
- Department of Nuclear Engineering, Ben-Gurion Univ. Beer Sheva, Israel
- University of Venice, Department of Chemistry, Venice, Italy
- School of Chemical Sciences, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
- Institute of Chemistry, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Delft Interfaculty Research Centre: Renewable Energy, Delft, The Netherlands
- Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
- Institute FOM – AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Departamento de Fisica da Faculdade de Ciencias, Universidada de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- The University of Dundee, Department of Chemistry, Dundee, Scotland
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
- Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Department of Physics, Oxford University, UK
