Ministry of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Outstanding Young Researchers – Dr Karol Frydrych

In 2024, dr Karol Frydrych from NOMATEN CoE received a scholarship for outstanding young researchers from Minister of Science and Higher Education of Poland for 36 months with budget 5390 PLN/month. The scholarship was awarded in the field of engineering and technology (discipline – materials engineering). The scholarship was awarded thanks to single-author and first-author publications in prestigious journals (200 and 140 ministry points), postdoctoral stay in France (LEM3, Metz, 2017-2018) and winning of the KMM-VIN fellowship allowing for research stay in Germany (FAU, Erlangen, 2017). The awarded cycle of publications was devoted to mean-field crystal plasticity modelling of materials deforming by slip and twinning and included both breakthrough applications of two-scale model and development of a novel three-scale crystal plasticity model allowing to account for microstructure evolution (texture and grain refinement) of polycrystalline metals and alloys subjected to large and severe plastic deformation. The experimentally-validated modelling results shed light into micro-mechanisms of plastic deformation of important engineering materials such as Fe-Cr, Ti and Mg alloys.



This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 857470 and from European Regional Development Fund
via Foundation for Polish Science International Research Agenda PLUS programme grant
No MAB PLUS/2018/8.
Poland
The project is co-financed from the state budget within the framework of the undertaking of the Minister of Science and Higher Education "Support for the activities of Centers of Excellence established under Horizon 2020".

Grant: 5 143 237,70 EUR
Total value: 29 971 365,00 EUR
Date of signing the funding agreement: December 2023

The purpose of the undertaking is to support entities of the higher education and science system that have received funding from the European Union budget in the competition H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020/WIDESPREAD-01-2018-2019: Teaming Phase 2. in the preparation, implementation and updating of activities, maintenance of material resources necessary for carrying out activities, acquisition and modernization of scientific and research apparatus, maintenance and development of personnel potential necessary for the implementation of activities, and dissemination of the results of scientific activities.