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Convocation ceremony 2026

The 2026 convocation ceremony was a joyful event for our Department. It was a special day both for our former PhD student 👩‍🎓 Weronika Nitka (Rafała Weron’s 8th PhD student) and for Katarzyna Maciejowska, who made her debut as an auxiliary

Doctoral defense of Tomasz Serafin

On April 7, 2026, the PhD defense of Tomasz Serafin took place at the Faculty of Management. The reviewers – Bogumił Kamiński from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) 🇵🇱 and Fotios Petropoulos from the University of Bath 🇬🇧 (Monika

Arkadiusz Lipiecki on a research visit at Monash University 🇦🇺

In March 2026, Arkadiusz Lipiecki visited the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University 🇦🇺 as part of a research stay funded by the NCN MAESTRO CrossFIT grant. We have to admit that we are a little jealous

Anna Lamek member of the Artificial Intelligence Working Group (GRAI)

Anna Lamek has been accepted into the “International cooperation based on artificial intelligence” and “Data for AI” sections within the Artificial Intelligence Working Group (GRAI) at the Ministry of Digital Affairs. Congrats! GRAI aims to: develop recommendations to ensure that Poland

Dawid Linek and Piotr Zaborowski investigators in NCN PRIORITY and THRIFT projects

On March 1, 2026, two new investigators have joined the teams working on NCN grants in our Department. Dawid Linek won the competition for a position in the grant PRobabilistic mid- and long-term prIce fORecasting In electriciTY markets (PRIORITY), and Piotr

Aleksandra Mokrzan joined our Department

On March 1st, 2026 Aleksandra Mokrzan joined our Department. Ola graduated from Business Engineering and since October 2025 has been a PhD student at PWr. She has experience in public speaking and Oxford-style debates. She is a laureate of the

Adam Wasilewski with a habilitation (HDR) degree!

In a resolution dated February 17, 2026, the Scientific Discipline Council Management and Quality Studies of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology conferred on Dr.  Adam Wasilewski the habilitation (HDR) degree in the field of Social Sciences in the

Rafał Weron is Associate Fellow of CoRE 🇩🇰

On 1st February Rafał Weron become an Associate Fellow of the Center for Research in Energy (CoRE), School of Business and Social Sciences (BSS), Aarhus University 🇩🇰. Congrats!

OPUS project for our Department

On November 28th, 2025 the National Science Centre has announced the laureates of the OPUS 29 grant scheme. Among them is a project from our Department: Temporal Hierarchies for electricity pRIce ForecasTing – THRIFT (PI: Rafał Weron, budget: 999 180

3 awards of the Governor of the National Bank of Poland for the best doctoral and habilitation theses

It is hard to imagine a better inauguration of the new scientific discipline Economics and Finance (EiF) at Wrocław Tech. On 19 December 2025, the results of the 9th edition of the Competition for the Award of the Governor of