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Warsaw University of Technology

12.05.2026 | 

Professor Paolo Giubellino, former Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Warsaw University of Technology. It was conferred on May 6, 2026, during a formal ceremonial session of the Senate of the Warsaw University of Technology. The university thus honors Giubellino’s outstanding contributions to nuclear and particle physics as well as his long-standing and successful collaboration with the Warsaw University of Technology. The current Scientific Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Professor Thomas Nilsson, and the Technical Managing Director of GSI and FAIR, Jörg Blaurock conveyed their congratulations in person on site.

In her laudatory speech, Prof. Hanna Zbroszczyk from the Faculty of Physics at the Warsaw University of Technology, CBM and HADES national coordination and Chair of the Collaboration Board of CBM and HADES, emphasized the close scientific ties between the university, the ALICE experiment at CERN, and even more with GSI and FAIR. Giubellino, she noted, had shaped the collaboration over many years with scientific excellence, openness, and personal commitment, thereby creating new opportunities for researchers and students.

The institutional deepening of the partnership was also particularly highlighted: a memorandum of cooperation signed in 2020 between the Warsaw University of Technology and GSI/FAIR, as well as agreements on the exchange of students and staff, laid the foundation for today’s close collaboration. The university is now actively involved in the international projects ALICE at CERN, HADES at GSI, and CBM at FAIR.

“Receiving this distinction, I feel deeply honored, especially because it comes 100 years after Maria Skłodowska-Curie received the same distinction. She was an outstanding scientist – she created our field of knowledge, she created this world and described what we do. She is an iconic figure in our work,” emphasized Prof. Paolo Giubellino during the ceremony. He also underscored the importance of universities as “talent factories” where young people are given the opportunity to further develop knowledge and technologies.

Following the award ceremony, Giubellino gave a public lecture titled “Frontiers of Experimental Nuclear Physics” at the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology. (LW)