✨ On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we would like to invite you to join the “Astrocent Take Over: Meet the Women Exploring the Dark Matter’s Riddles” this Friday at 1 PM CET! See LinkedIn event: lnkd.in/d_eDGg8a #WomenInScience #STEM #Astrocent #DarkMatter #ScienceForAll

On 22 January 2026, Dr. Rita Antonietti was awarded by ARAP (Associazione Romana per le Astroparticelle) for its valuable contribution to dark matter research. 👏Congratulations to Rita on this achievement and well‑deserved recognition. #WomeninScience #ARAP #AstrocentTeam

You can now tune in to Jedynka - Program 1 Polskiego Radia, where our group leader, Prof. Marcin Kuźniak, appeared as a guest on the programme “Eureka. Ludzie Nauki”. #MAB #TeamingForExcellence #WIDERA #FNP #FunduszeUE #FunduszeEuropejskie Audio: www.polskieradio.pl/jedynka/podc...

On Monday, we were happy to host Matthias De Moor, General Representative of Flanders, and Tijs Verstraete, Policy Officer, from the Delegation of Flanders in Poland and the Baltic States. Read more about the visit: tinyurl.com/yc3w4579 #EinsteinTelescope #Belgian-Polishpartnership #Flanders

Astrocent is proud to receive support from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education as a part of the "International Projects Co-financed" programme for the PROBES project, advancing global collaboration in particle and gravitational‑wave physics. Find out more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl

Great news from our scientist Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski to kick off the year! His team’s work opens a new path toward detecting relic neutrinos - a key prediction of the Hot Big Bang theory. You can read the publication online: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last day of the year, one more reason to celebrate ✨ Astrocent Plus (NCAC PAS) has received funding from @ministerstwonauki.bsky.social! 🚀 PLN 29.75M to support frontier particle astrophysics & technologies for global challenges. Read more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl?p=8708 #HorizonEurope #TfE

We received an EU grant (International Research Agendas #MAB, #FENG) for “ASTROCENT – Particle Astrophysics Technology Centre”! 🇪🇺🔬 We’ll develop next-gen detectors & sensors for science + real-world use: medical imaging, renewables, and monitoring. 🚀🌍 #FunduszeUE Read more: url-shortener.me/5NB8

✨ Astrocent’s Christmas Party brought us together for an afternoon of festive spirit, delicious treats, and warm conversations. Thank you to everyone who joined, shared traditions, and helped make it special. 🎄 #teamAstrocent

📢 Save the date: 21–22 Apr 2026 | CERN, Geneva — ET Vacuum & Cryogenic Industrial Workshop. Two days of technical exchange on UHV beam pipes, large components & ET-LF cryogenics. Companies welcome + flash talks. Register: indico.cern.ch/event/160448... #ET_tech

On December 3rd, we joined the APC @cnrs.fr in welcoming a distinguished delegation of @ministerstwonauki.bsky.social and French Embassy in Poland. This meeting consolidates seven years of Polish-French cooperation! #TeamingforExcellence

Astrocent supports the Einstein Telescope not only through science, but also by helping Europe tell its story. In Opatija we shared ET-PP communication progress and citizen-engagement plans; in Hasselt we learned from the #ETRoadshow. More: shorturl.at/hRaBc @einsteintelescope.bsky.social

Dear Astroparticle Physics Enthusiasts, we’re excited to invite you to the next talk in our Astroparticle Frontiers seminar series! Date & Time: Thursday, November 27, 2025, at 2 PM (CET) Location: ul. Rektorska 4, room 5.05, Warsaw Zoom link: princeton.zoom.us/j/97132651029

Astrocent joined the DarkSide-20k Fall Collaboration Meeting at GSSI (L’Aquila, Italy, 17–21 Nov 2025). Our team contributed to reports on vPDU production and QA/QC and to the Review Office. #DarkSide20k #darkmatter #TeamingForExcellence #NCN

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Azam Zabihi for receiving the prestigious MINIATURA‑9 grant from the National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki)! We are delighted to see her dedication recognised, and we look forward to supporting her work and celebrating the achievements that will follow.

🚀 GWECS Job Fair 2025! We’re collecting job offers for the upcoming online fair connecting early-career GW scientists with employers. Submit your openings: shorturl.at/4siMH More details soon! ET job opportunities: lnkd.in/d9S2-sRj

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position at Astrocent! More information: lnkd.in/dEc8dNME

What an evening! On the 4 Nov, we celebrated #DarkMatterDay 2025 with a captivating lecture by Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski. Huge thanks to everyone involved in organising this inspiring event! Read more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl?p=8538

Congrats to our former postdoc Dr Kimura (supervised by Prof. Masayuki Wada) for receiving the 20th Young Encouragement Prize of the Physical Society of Japan for his #DarkSide-50 #darkmatter study — conducted at Astrocent — and for his new role as Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo! 🎉

Join us for the next Astroparticle Frontiers seminar with Dr. Yue-Lin Sming Tsai! 📅 Thursday, November 6, 2025 🕑 2 PM (CET) 📍 Rektorska 4, room 5.05, Warsaw 🔗 Zoom: princeton.zoom.us/j/97132651029

🎊Today is the International Dark Matter Day — a global celebration of the hunt for the unseen! Astrocent will mark the occasion next week with a popular science lecture in Polish by Dr. Sebastian Trojanowski (Astrocent, CAMK PAN). Link to the event: tinyurl.com/4jjd8wye

We took part in #LIDINE2025 in China 🇨🇳, contributing 3 presentations — 2 talks and a poster — on noble-element detector technologies. 🏅 Congratulations to Diego Rodas Rodríguez, who received a poster award for the innovative work on cryogenic detector applications! Proud moment!💡 @ncn.gov.pl

Astrocent’s Leszek Roszkowski and Marta Borowiec joined the 4th Teaming Club Conference in Portugal 🇵🇹 — connecting with Centres of Excellence across Europe to share ideas and build lasting collaborations. 🌍 #TeamingForExcellence

New energy, new ideas, new discoveries ahead! ⚡️ Four amazing researchers are joining the Astrocent team - welcome Rita, Miroslav, Pedro, and Sebastian! 🌌 Check out full bios of our new team members at: astrocent.camk.edu.pl #team #Astrocent #CAMKPAN

Our Comms Officer, Magda Jakubiak, spent the day at the Illustrated Communication Festival surrounded by fresh ideas on how to use visual communication. We’re proud to see our teammates keeping their curiosity alive! #TeamingforExcellence #EU #HorizonEurope #communication

Uff, what a week we have had at the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting (6–10.10), full of engagement! From daily presentation sessions to a schedule rich with social activities. Thank you, CERN, for entrusting us to deliver an enjoyable experience for our guests. Find out more: astrocent.camk.edu.pl

On Monday, we are starting a special gathering as the 6th DRD1 Collaboration Meeting lands in Warsaw - its first edition outside CERN! This global event brings together leading researchers in gas radiation detector development. The countdown is on! #DRD1Meeting #ParticleAstrophysics

Astrocent joined the APPEC Town Meeting in Zaragoza (22–25 Sept 2025). Prof. Roszkowski (APPEC GA Deputy Chair) and Prof. Kuźniak (APPEC SAC) took part in plenaries & round tables shaping the next European strategy in #AstroparticlePhysics. Briefing book out this summer → roadmap next year. 🚀

Between September 7th - 18th, we were rooting for Samuel Belayneh while he attended the respected Gran Sasso Hands-on 2025. 💪We are on track with our Astrocent Plus project and excited to see where this journey leads! #summerschool #GranSassoHandson2025

🌟 On Sept 21, 2025, CAMK opened its doors for the Festiwal Nauki! 🚀 Visitors explored lectures, VR journeys, a planetarium, sunspot observations & more. 👉 Astrocent was proud to contribute, bringing science closer to everyone. ✨

The Astroparticle Frontiers Seminar Series is back! We’re kicking off the season next Thursday, Sept 25, at 2 pm, with a deep dive into neutrino detection in dark matter experiments. 👤 Featuring Dr. Ricardo Peres (Imperial College of London) 🎙️Tune in: tinyurl.com/pjckct6r #Astroparticle

Astrocent at #TAUP2025 (Aug 24–30, Xichang)! Prof. Masayuki Wada on light #darkmatter with DarkSide-20k & DarkSide-LowMass, and Michal Olszewski on DEAP-3600’s sensitivity to supermassive gravitinos. 🌌 @deap3600.bsky.social

We are proud to be part of the DEAP-3600, working to uncover the invisible #darkmatter. The latest meeting took place at Carleton U. on 10–13 Aug, where we shared talks on database management, light/charge collection and detection R&D at Astrocent, and outreach activities. @carleton.ca

Astrocent (NCAC PAS) has signed an MoU with @cern.bsky.social to join the DRD1 Collaboration! 🚀 We’ll help develop cutting-edge gaseous detector tech for future physics experiments - and we’re hosting the next DRD1 meeting in Warsaw, 6–10 Oct 2025! #DRD1 #collaboration

Cheyanne Monk presents a background reduction in the DEAP-3600 detector at Women+ in Physics Canada! We’re now over halfway filled, and the data looks excellent - great news for future experiments like DarkSide-20k & ARGO. #WomenInPhysics #darkmatter

ET-PP Annual Meeting in Barcelona 🇪🇺 22-24 July ET-PP consortium met to review progress & plan the next steps for building the foundations of the Einstein Telescope. 30 institutions, 11 countries, one vision for Europe’s #gravitationalwave future! #ETPP #InfraDev #HorizonEurope

Astrocent at #IBER2025! 🇪🇸 Dr. André Cortez presented on boosting light collection for next-gen #darkmatter detectors - key for rare-event searches. Great collaboration with University of Coimbra, @Universidade de Aveiro & IGFAE!

Dr. Azam Zabihi (Astrocent/NCAC) is visiting IHEP in Beijing as part of the PROBES Project to work on cryogenic systems and TPC technology. On July 16, she presented a seminar on using xenon-doped liquid argon scintillators for advanced PET scanners in medical physics. #HorizonEurope

Meet GW231123! #gravitationalwave #LIGOVirgoKAGRA

Record-Setting Dark Matter Detector Comes Up Empty—and That's Good News https://gizmodo.com/record-setting-dark-matter-detector-comes-up-empty-and-thats-good-news-2000625783

We are hiring! Applications are invited for a postdoc at Astrocent / NCAC PAS. The successful applicant will work on the project “Understanding delayed (spurious) emission mechanisms in dual-phase TPCs for #DarkMatter searches" Job description: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/357373 @ncn.gov.pl

🌍 The ET preparatory phase has been shortlisted among 🇩🇪 Germany’s top 9 large-scale research infrastructures - a major recognition of its global relevance & scientific ambition! 📢 Full statement: shorturl.at/7Jkzw #ETproject #Science #ResearchInfrastructures

🎓 On June 26, our team member Sarthak Choudhary defended his PhD at NCAC PAS! Title: Optimisation of Light Collection in LAr Detectors and Modelling PSD for Dark Matter Searches. Congrats to Sarthak and his supervisor, Prof. Marcin Kuźniak! 👏 #PhDDefense #DarkMatter #NCN #Opus

🧪 Our new JINST article reports results from 2023 CERN campaign! PEN film shows stable light-shifting in LAr over 12 days - key for future neutrino/dark matter detectors. With TUM, UZH, U. Edinburgh, Nikhef, INFN Bologna, CERN, UH Manoa. #DarkWave #H2020 #PENfilm

Astrocent joined the DarkSide-20k summer meeting in Sardinia (2–6 June), working with global partners to push the search for #darkmatter forward. WIMPs beware - we’re coming for you with 20 tonnes of liquid argon! 💡🕳️

On 29 May, Astrocent's PhD student Wathela Alhassan successfully defended his thesis on using deep learning to detect binary black hole signals for the Einstein Telescope. Congrats to Dr. Alhassan, his supervisors, and reviewers! 👏 @einsteintelescope.bsky.social #PhDDefense

Prof. Leszek Roszkowski 🇱🇹🇱🇻 (12–16 May): showcased #AstrocentPlus at #DeepTechAtelier2025 🚀, met #SustAInLivWork (Kaunas) & #COMART2 (Riga) to boost research excellence. Building bridges for science without borders! 🌌✨ #HorizonEU #WIDERA

Ale Kosmos! 🔭✨ Last Saturday (10 May) our AstroCeNT Plus crew attended the 28th Piknik Naukowy in Warsaw’s PGE Narodowy! Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by, asked brilliant questions and proved that curiosity really is universal! 🌌🤝 #outreach #TfE

The third event of the Astroparticle Frontiers Seminar Series. Dr. Giorgio Dho will explore how directionality could be the key to unlocking the mystery of #darkmatter, even in the presence of elusive particles such as #neutrinos. 📅 May 15, 2025 🕑 2 pm 🔗 Registration: lnkd.in/diaRchCa

A new scientific paper featuring contributions from ASTROCENT team members has just been published in Physical Review D 📄✨ The article is available open access here: lnkd.in/dWi3TrdR