Dr Aleksandra Wrońska from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow became a laureate of the Polish Intelligent Development Award 2019. She received this prize for the implementation of her project aimed at developing a method of real-time monitoring of proton cancer therapy. The research is financed under a grant from the National Science Center.

The Polish Intelligent Development Award was established in 2016. It is awarded by organizations and individuals who demonstrate future-oriented activities. The initiator and organizer of the award is the Intelligent Development Center. The content partner is the Silesian Center for Business Ethics and Sustainable Development at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

The laureate works at the Institute of Hadron Physics of the Jagiellonian University. Until recently, her work mainly involved basic research in hadron physics. After launching the Bronowice Cyclotron Center (CCB), the first Polish proton therapy center, she shifted her interests to the use of nuclear physics for medical purposes.