Polish and Austrian researchers headed by Dr hab. Mikołaj Korzyński from the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences will study electromagnetic and gravitational waves.
The project “Lensing of electromagnetic and gravitational waves” aims to help us understand how waves emitted by distant astronomical objects that are the main source of information about the Universe available for astronomers, travel through the spacetime. The researchers will advance the theory of their propagation through curved spacetimes and will study two examples of astrophysical wave sources: a supermassive black hole and strongly lensed galaxy. They will address the question if it is possible to detect transverse motions of such objects and gravitational lenses by monitoring their precise positions over a 10-year period.
Austrian researchers will be headed by Marius Adrian Oancea from the Vienna University and the Polish project budget will be nearly 1.5 million zlotys. The proposal was evaluated by the Austrian Science Fund, and the evaluation results were accepted by the National Science Centre under the Weave collaboration.
Weave-UNISONO and Lead Agency Procedure (LAP)
The Weave programme builds on the multilateral international cooperation between the research funding agencies associated in Science Europe and aims at simplifying the submission and selection procedures of research proposals in all academic disciplines involving researchers from two or three European countries.
The winning projects are selected pursuant to the Lead Agency Procedure which means that only one partner institution performs the merit-based evaluation, while the other partners must accept the evaluation results.
Under the Weave programme, partner research teams apply for parallel funding of their projects to the Lead Agency and their respective research funding institutions participating in the Weave programme. Joint projects must include a coherent research program with the added value of the international cooperation clearly defined.
The Weave-UNISONO call is carried out on an ongoing basis. Research teams intending to cooperate with partners from Austria, Czechia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium-Flanders, are encouraged to read the call text and apply.