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Job offer: 2 postdoc positions in the NCN MAESTRO CrossFIT project

We have an opening for two postdocs in the NCN MAESTRO Crossing Frontiers in electricity prIce forecasTing (CrossFIT) project in one of the world’s top energy forecasting teams ? Remuneration: 120,000 PLN per annum before tax Contract for: 12 months

The first post COVID doctoral defense at the Faculty of Management

On November 22, 2022 (what a date ?) the first post COVID doctoral defense was held at the Faculty of Management. The lecture room was full! A week later, the Management and Quality Sciences Discipline Council awarded Tomasz Antczak a

Medals, awards and new employees

During the inauguration of the 2022/2023 academic year, the KEN medal was awarded to Marek Lubicz and the Docendo Discimus award to Leopold Szczurowski. Congrats! On October 1st, 2022 Pratik Mullick joined our Department. Pratik is a physicist by training

Is it difficult to forecast electricity prices? – an interview with Rafał Weron on Radio LUZ

Is it difficult to forecast electricity prices? How can chance rule the adventures of a young scientist? What should we do to find our own niche in science? What can you learn when studying Business Intelligence at  WrocławTECH’s Faculty of

Bartosz Uniejewski receives the Best Student Presentation award at the ISF 2022 symposium

Bartosz Uniejewski, a PhD student from our Department, received the 1st prize and $2000 in the competition for the Best Student Presentation at the International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF 2022), which has taken place in Oxford. Bartosz presented the paper

Outstanding International Journal of Forecasting paper on Energy Forecasting

During the closing ceremony of the ISF2022 Symposium in Oxford, professor Pierre Pinson presented the Outstanding paper in Energy Forecasting award for an article published in the International Journal of Forecasting in the years 2019-2020: B. Uniejewski, G. Marcjasz, R.

Weronika Nitka receives the Best Youngster Presentation award at the ICCF 2022 conference

Weronika Nitka, a PhD student from our Department, received one of three Best Youngster Presentation awards at the International Conference on Computational Finance (ICCF 2022), which has just ended in Wuppertal. Weronika presented the paper entitled “Calibration window selection based

New Departmental “Highly Cited Paper”

Article coauthored by Asha Thomas: G.D. Sharma, A. Thomas, J. Paul (2021) Reviving tourism industry post-COVID-19: A resilience-based framework, Tourism Management Perspectives 37, 100786 (doi: 10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100786) has received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic

4+ departmental articles in IF journals and CORE A conferences (December 2021-April 2022)

In the last 5 months 3 departmental articles have been published in impact factor (IF) journals: K. Dębicki, E. Hashorva, Z. Michna (2022) On the continuity of Pickands constants, Journal of Applied Probability 59(1), 187-201 (doi: 10.1017/jpr.2021.42). M. Goerigk, A.

Bartosz Uniejewski wins Jan Mozrzymas Scholarship – now it’s official!

On April 25, the Mayor presented the scholarships awarded in November 2021. Among others, the Jan Mozrzymas Scholarship of the Wrocław Academic Center (WCA) in the field of interdisciplinary research for Bartosz Uniejewski. Now officially – congratulations!