Dr Agata Karska from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń is one of 18 scientists selected by European Space Agency to create regional knowledge centers on the James Webb space telescope – the successor to the Hubble telescope.

The only center of knowledge about “Webbie” in Poland will be created by the team Toruń Astrophysics, theoretical Spectroscopy, and Quantum Chemistry. The first task will be the organization of international workshops that will be used to transfer knowledge about the instruments onboard “Webb” and how to use them to study protostars, extrasolar planets and small bodies of the Solar System and nearby galaxies.

Dr Karska is a researcher of the Institute of Astronomy at the faculty of physics, astronomy and applied computer science and the rector’s plenipotentiary for scientific excellence. She completed her doctoral studies at the International Max Planck Research School in Garching in Germany, and delivered her PhD thesis at the Dutch University of Leiden.

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