Our grants

Project title: Participation in the project entitled “Support for the Astrocent Plus project – Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre (Astrocent Plus)”

Financing institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Leader: Prof. Leszek Roszkowski

Total budget: PLN 29 750 000,00

Duration: 1.10.2025 – 31.12.2030

Project description: The subject of the initiative is to support the project entitled “Astrocent Plus – Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre (Astrocent Plus)” (hereinafter referred to as the Project), co-funded by the European Commission under the European Union Framework Programme Horizon Europe within the Teaming for Excellence initiative. The Project aims to develop the Astrocent Centre of Excellence in conducting fundamental research combined with innovative applied research and development activities in the field of particle astrophysics, focused on the development of technologies used both in breakthrough scientific research and in addressing global challenges such as healthcare, climate change, and sustainable energy sources.

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Project title: Astrocent – Centrum Technologiczne Astrofizyki Cząstek

Programme: International Research Agendas FENG

Financing institution: Foundation for Polish Science

Leader: Prof. Marcin Kuźniak

Total budget:  34 046 400,00 PLN

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Project title: DRD1 Conference Warsaw

Programme: Wektory Nauki

Financing institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Leader: Dr Andre Filipe Ventura Cortez

Total budget: PLN 204 440,00

Co-funding: PLN 96 640,00

Duration: 1.08-31.12.2025

Project description: The aim of the project was to organize the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting — a week-long conference serving as a platform for the presentation and exchange of research results and developments in radiation detector technologies within the international DRD1 network (CERN Experimental Physics, in line with the detector R&D roadmap of the European Committee for Future Accelerators, ECFA). The meeting took place in Warsaw on 6–10 October 2025, for the first time outside CERN, and was hosted by Astrocent (NCAC PAS).

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Project title: Preparing Cryogenic Infrastructure for Xenon Doping in LAr-Based Scintillation Studies (Przygotowanie infrastruktury kriogenicznej do domieszkowania ksenonem w badaniach scintylacyjnych z użyciem ciekłego argonu)

Call: Miniatura 9

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Leader: Dr Azam Zabihi

Total budget: PLN 49 995

Duration:  13.11.2025 – 12.11.2026

Project description: This project prepares Astrocent’s cryogenic infrastructure to enable precise xenon doping of liquid argon and launch measurements of scintillation light yield and timing in LAr+Xe mixtures using cryogenic SiPMs. The upgrade will expand the cryogenic system and integrate mass-flow control, valves, connectors, and vacuum/pressure sensors to ensure stable, reproducible doping. These studies will support the 3DPi PET system and the X-ArT collaboration, and will equip Astrocent’s dual-phase LAr TPC for key R&D relevant to medical imaging and dark-matter detector development—strengthening this capability locally in Poland.

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Project title: Astrocent Plus – Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre

Programme: Horizon Europe – Teaming for Excellence

Financing institution: European Research Executive Agency (REA)

Leader: Prof. Leszek Roszkowski

Total budget:  15 M Euro

Duration: 1.01.2025-31.12.2030

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Project title: Understanding delayed (spurious) emission mechanisms in dual-phase TPCs for Dark Matter searches

Programme: SONATA BIS 19

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Leader: Dr. Andre Filipe Ventura Cortez

Total budget:  1 223 600,00 PLN

Duration: 4.11.2024 – 3.11.2027

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Project title: Development of the Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector with Liquid Argon

Programme: SONATA BIS 11

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Leader: Dr. Masayuki Wada

Total budget:  2 852 105,00 PLN

Duration: 29.11.2022 – 28.11.2026

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Project title: Search for dark matter with liquid argon detectors

Programme: OPUS 24

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Leader: Prof. Marcin Kuźniak

Total budget:  2,151,300.00 PLN

Duration: 29.11.2023 – 28.11.2026

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Project title: STELLAR (innovative STructures for improvEd Light colLection in ARgon-based TPCs)

Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Postdoctoral Fellowships

Financing institution: European Research Executive Agency (REA)

Leader: Dr. Andre Filipe Ventura Cortez

Total budget:  139 953.60 EUR

Duration: 27.06.2024 – 26.06.2026

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Project title: Hyper-Kamiokande

Financing institution: Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Project title: Hyper-Kamiokande

Leader: Dr. Marcin Ziembicki

Total budget:  8,985,964.47 PLN

Duration: 1.12.2022 – 30.11.2028

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Project title: Probes of new physics and technological advancements from particle and gravitational wave physics experiments. A cooperative Europe – United States – Asia effort’ (PROBES)

Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

Financing institution: European Research Executive Agency (REA)

Leader: Prof. Leszek Roszkowski

Duration: 1.03.2022 – 28.02.2026

 

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Completed

MINIATURA 8

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Project title: Determining the sensitivity of the ARGO, DarkSide-20k, and DEAP-3600 experiments to supermassive charged gravitinos (Wyznaczenie czułości eksperymentów ARGO, DarkSide-20k, i DEAP-3600 na supermasywne naładowane grawitina)

Leader: Dr Michał Olszewski

Total budget:  47 300,00 PLN

Duration: 22.08.2024-5.12.2025

 

PRELUDIUM 22

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Project title: Detection and denoising of Gravitational Wave sources in Einstein Telescope using deep learning

Leader: Wathela Alhassan

Total budget: 68,275.00 PLN

Duration: 12 months

 

International Research Agendas (finished)

Financing institution: Foundation for Polish Science

Project title: AstroCeNT: Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre

Leader: Prof. Leszek Roszkowski

Total budget:  38 000 000,00 PLN

Duration: 36 months

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Horizon 2020 – Twinning  (finished)

Financing institution: Research Executive Agency (REA) 

Project title: Novel technologies for dark matter search and frontier astroparticle physics experiments – DarkWave

Leader: Prof. Marcin Kuźniak

Total budget:  879 812.50 EUR

Duration: 36 months

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MINIATURA 3 (finished)

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Project title: Development of the concept of a new type of GEM detector for dark matter and neutrino research (Rozwój koncepcji nowego rodzaju detektora typu GEM do badań nad ciemną materią i neutrinami)

Leader: Prof. Marcin Kuźniak

Total budget:  47 850.00 PLN

Duration: 12 months

 

MINIATURA 6 (finished)

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Project title: Methods of reconstructing signals from seismic detector networks (Metody rekonstrukcji sygnałów z siecie detektorów sejsmicznych)

Leader: Dr Marek Cieślar

Total budget:  48 048.00 PLN

Duration: 12 months

 

MINIATURA 6 (finished)

Financing institution: National Science Centre

Project title: Environmental acoustic interference studies using an infrasound microphone array (Środowiskowe badania zakłóceń akustycznych za pomocą matrycy mikrofonów infradźwiękowych)

Leader: Dr Mariusz Suchenek

Total budget:  49 742.00 PLN

Duration: 12 months