MATERIALIZE | Scientific Focus

An international network supporting every fellow

MATERIALIZE fellows will be supported not only by their host groups at IOC PAS, but also by an expanding international network of at least 15 associated partners across 11 countries.

The network currently brings together 12 academic institutions and three industry partners, providing fellows with access to complementary scientific expertise, specialist research environments, and perspectives from beyond academia. Further partnerships will be established during the programme to broaden the available expertise, create new opportunities for collaboration, and open up additional research directions.

This expanding network will provide each fellow with a broad and dynamic environment in which to develop their research, test new ideas, establish new collaborations, and explore emerging scientific directions and career opportunities in academia, industry, and other research-driven sectors.

About MATERIALIZE

MATERIALIZE — Methodology and Synthesis Advancement to Empower Researchers in Advanced Optoelectronic Materials — is an international postdoctoral research and training programme coordinated by the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOC PAS) in Warsaw.

Co-funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA COFUND), the programme will support 15 postdoctoral researchers, each employed for 36 months to develop an original research project in the broadly defined fields of organic synthesis and synthetic methodology, including selected aspects of materials chemistry. The new synthetic routes, methods, and molecular systems developed within these projects may also contribute to advances in areas such as optoelectronics, OLEDs, NIR-II bioimaging, and molecular sensing.

MATERIALIZE combines scientific independence, international mobility, and personalised career development. Its ambition is to advance fundamental and interdisciplinary research in organic chemistry while preparing a new generation of researchers to become leaders in academia, industry, and other research-driven sectors.