Dr. Agata Zdarta,  PhD from the Faculty of Chemical Technology, was awarded by Poznan Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the best original creative work of a doctoral student for 2020 in the field of exact sciences and earth sciences. In turn, Dr. Michał Tomczyk, PhD from the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications received an award in the field of technical sciences.

The article by Dr. Agaty Zdarty, PhD, Eng. "Multilevel changes in bacterial properties on long-term exposure to hydrocarbons and impact of these cells on fresh-water communities", was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

It describes the multi-level adaptive changes occurring as a result of long-term exposure of bacterial cells to aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons and diesel oil.

Dr. Michał Tomczyk, PhD, Eng. is the author of the work "Decomposition-based interactive evolutionary algorithm for multiple objective optimization" published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.

This work concerns the application of multi-criteria decision support methods in evolutionary multi-criteria optimization.

The Polish Academy of Sciences also distinguished two young scientists from the Faculty of Chemical Technology: Małgorzata Stanisz, MSc. (technical sciences) and Emmanuel Pameté Yambou, MSc.  (exact sciences and earth sciences).