Typically, the PhD career entails students independently conducting original and substantial research in a particular field or subject, culminating in a thesis that is suitable for publication. The education of doctoral students in the discipline of Materials Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology takes place as part of the Doctoral School.
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Interns are key people for the Biomaterials Team. They gain experience in specific research topics while providing fundamental work on target projects, cooperating with a supervisor and a tutor who address the person to achieve the proposed scientific goals.
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The Master’s degree of Biomaterials is a 3-semester program run by Warsaw University of Technology at the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, with an annual intake for students. The second-cycle studies starts in October. The academic path includes a group of mandatory subjects and a group of elective courses.
Second-cycle studies end with the defense of the Master’s thesis, thus obtaining the title of Master of Science in Materials Engineering of the selected specialization.
For more information, you can visit the official page of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering.
The first-cycle studies – engineering discipline – last 7 semesters and end with the defense of an engineering diploma thesis. The graduate obtains the title of an engineer in the field of Material Engineering.
Among the subjects led in collaboration with the Biomaterials Group: Mechanics of biomaterials, 3D printing techniques, Research Project – Functional Materials.
For more information, you can visit the official page of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering.
Supervisor: Prof. dr hab. inż. Wojciech Święszkowski
Tutors: Mgr inż. Łukasz Luśtyk
Short description: Cancer metastases to the bones are a real obstacle in the fight against this disease. For better understanding of how cancer progresses and seeds the bone tissue, as well as to overcome limitations of animal models, a functional bone tissue model is needed. To this end, the student will fabricate the compartments of bone tissue representing subtissues of the bone (compact bone tissue, blood vessel/bone tissue interface, blood vessel) by 3D bioprinting. The obtained hydrogel constructs will be characterized in terms of their morphology (SEM), characterization of mechanical properties and their swelling and degradation behaviour (change of mass, DMA), porosity (micro-CT). As the final stage of the process, the cytotoxicity and cell encapsulation ability of the obtained hydrogel formulations will be assessed. It is expected that the fabricated model will enable the accurate depiction of the complex hierarchical structure of bone tissue, and thus it can be used as a promising tool for the evaluation of potential therapies or for investigating pathogenic mechanisms.
Additional material/Note: Student who is enrolled into this thesis should already have experience working in laboratory. Basic of 3D printing is a plu
Implementation time: Winter semester (since November/December 2025)
Supervisor: Dr inż. Joanna Idaszek
Tutors: N/A
Short description: Cartilage is a highly hydrated tissue with mechanical properties tuned to absorb shock, distribute loads, and allow nearly frictionless movement. The goal of this study is to fabricate hybrid scaffolds composed of hydrogel and polymeric reinforcement with mechanical properties resembling those of articular cartilage.
To this end, the student will fabricate 3D polycaprolactone (PCL) porous scaffolds by means of additive manufacturing (fused deposition modelling (FDM) and/or melt electrowriting (MEW) and freeze-extraction. The scaffolds will be later combined with hydrogels derived from bone decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) and evaluated with respect to material properties with special emphasis on compressive properties. The hybrid scaffolds resembling the mechanical behaviour of cartilage to the highest extent, will be evaluated with respect to their ability to support chondrogenic differentiation of stem cells.
Laboratory work will include manufacturing of the scaffolds and characterization of their morphology (SEM), investigation of mechanical properties and degradation behaviour (change of mass, molecular weight (GPC), crystallinity (DSC)). Subsequently, the PCL scaffolds will be infused with dECM-based sol. The obtained PCL/dECM hydrogel scaffolds will be characterized with respect to mechanical properties (static and dynamic), swelling behaviour and degradation. Finally, biological properties of the scaffolds will be evaluated in vitro using mesenchymal stem cells cultured in chondrogenic medium and basic bioacceptance assays.
Implementation time: available from winter semester (since November 2025)
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