Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka

UN Women in Science 2026 - Visibility of women in optical/infrared interferometry

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka February 11, 2026

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I’m excited to pop up here on the European Interferometry Initiative (EEI) page: https://european-interferometry.eu/a/?loose=14&l2title=un-women-in-science-2026 . Take a look! It’s a place where teams across Europe join forces to push optical long‑baseline interferometry forward, mixing expertise from different institutes and labs. It feels great to land in a space...
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Long time no see...

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka February 11, 2026

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Somehow a few years slipped by, filled with some new projects, papers, conferences, teaching, unexpected adventures, and a handful of students who bravely survived the journey to graduation. And now - here I am again. I’ve missed having this little corner of the internet, so I’m officially dusting...
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I've got the SONATINA 3 NCN grant!

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka July 31, 2019

NCN VLTI optical interferometry symbiotic star UAM getting started

Polish National Science Centre (NCN) has awarded me the SONATINA 3 grant! Here is the official information, and here you can find the news on the website of my Institute. During the next three years I am going to study symbiotic stars with the use of optical interferometry. Finally! I've been waiting for such opportunity for quite a...
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Advances with SALT Conference

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka November 17, 2018

conference South Africa SALT

Between 14th and 16th Nov. 2018 I participated in the Advances with SALT Conference in Pretoria, South Africa. The conference covered recent SALT scientific achievements as well as upcoming projects and the strategic plans for the future of SALT. In addition to contributed presentations, there were also many less formal sessions and discussions, which were especially fruitful from...
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Popular talk in Kościan, Poland

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka August 30, 2018

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Today at the Astronomical Observatory of Kościan I gave a popular talk: How can we measure the size of a coin located on the Moon from the Earth? Observations in astronomy are the basic source of information. Over the centuries, the methods of conducting such observations, as well as their reduction and analysis, have undergone tremendous evolution, and...
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