Supplementary recruitment 2025:

Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences offers the following PhD project to doctoral school in the academic year 2025/2026:

Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of Agricultural Sciences

 PhD topic: The impact of biochar on the development and welfare of the black soldier fly

Doctoral supervisor: dr hab. Katarzyna Szewczuk-Karpisz, prof. IA PAN (k.szewczuk-karpisz@ipan.lublin.pl)

Assistant supervisor: dr inż. Piotr Bulak (p.bulak@ipan.lublin.pl)

Terms of supplementry recruitment: 

Deadline for submitting applications – November 21, 2025

Interview dates – December 2, 2025

Results – December 9, 2025

Recruitment Rules

Required Documents

Application Form TemplatAnnex 3 – Consent to the processing of personal data

Personal questionnaire

Application Form – Online registration

Doctoral School of Quantitative and Natural Sciences

PhD topic: The Role of Newly Developed Hydrogel Composites from Hermetia illucens Residues in Enhancing Soil Quality 

Doctoral supervisor: dr hab. Katarzyna Szewczuk-Karpisz, prof. IA PAN (k.szewczuk-karpisz@ipan.lublin.pl)

Assistant supervisor: dr Olena Siryk (o.siryk@ipan.lublin.pl)

PhD topic: Determination of the quantity characterising the susceptibility of soils to splash erosion

Doctoral supervisor: dr hab Agata Sochan (a.sochan@ipan.lublin.pl)

Terms of supplementry recruitment: 

Opening of the Online Application System (IRK) for the Candidates – October 31, 2025

Last day of registration through IRK and acceptance of the Candidates’ documents at the Doctoral School’s Office, Weteranów 18, 20-038 Lublin – November 24, 2025

The Doctoral Schools’ Office must receive the documents sent by the post office no later than November 24, 2025

Interviews with the Candidates –November 28, 2025

Announcement of the recruitment results – December 4, 2025

Formal requirements 

Additional requirements for foreign candidates

Declaration of reserch choice topic 

Declaration by an academic staff member of IA PAS stating consent of act as the candidate’s prospective supervisor

Template of the list of scietific achivements of candidate