Bio-Med-Chem Doctoral School is an interdisciplinary school, which has a unique curriculum offer. Doctoral students of the school gain knowledge from one of the three above mentioned disciplines, which is simultaneously closely related to the two remaining ones. Joint seminar classes constitute a platform to expand knowledge in these three fields, so far frequently considered (though wrongly) as separate. It is a valuable supplementation of the gained knowledge that leads to better and fuller understanding of processes and phenomena taking place at the interface between animate nature and its surroundings.  

This specific recruitment applies to candidates whose doctoral scholarship will be financed in whole or in part from external funds:

 Candidates with disabilities

The form of support provided to candidates with special needs or disabilities during the recruitment process may be determined in consultation with the Chair of the Recruitment Committee through the Support and Accessibility Centre, following the candidate’s prior contact with the Support and Accessibility Centre. The University ensures that candidates with special needs or disabilities are provided with conditions enabling full participation in the recruitment process, including, where necessary, the provision of a sign language interpreter or the assistance of an aide during the interview; such needs should be indicated by the candidate during the registration process in IRK.

 Recruitment rules in 2026/2027 academic year

Recruitment rules with attachments are available at the following link: https://www.uni.lodz.pl/en/biomedchem/admission/information-for-future-doctoral-students

  The recruitment procedure shall be initiated on the day on which the following two conditions are fulfilled jointly:

• receipt by the BioMedChem Doctoral School of a signed application for admission to the doctoral school in paper form, printed on a form generated from IRK system,
• payment of the recruitment fee of PLN 250 and its assignment to BioMedChem Doctoral School,

Online registration shall not constitute an action initiating the recruitment procedure. If the application for admission to BioMedChem Doctoral School is not submitted in paper form or if the aforementioned fee assigned to the BioMedChem is not paid, no procedural action shall be taken.

Stages of recruitment procedure

a) signing up at the present (IRK) recruitment platform (12 - 18 June 2026) – short guide (PDF format),

b) submitting original documents in paper form (19 - 25 June 2026) – candidates residing abroad may send a prolongation request via message box;

c) taking an English language test at B2 level of CEFR (1 July 2026), applicable to candidates without any of language certificates listed (Annex no. 7 to Recruitment Rules),

d) attending the candidate's inteview (10 - 15 July 2026). 

Electronic registration:

The candidate's responsibilities shall include in particular:

a) selecting a doctoral school and identifying the discipline(s) in which the doctoral dissertation will be prepared. If the doctoral dissertation is to be prepared in more than one discipline, the candidate shall indicate the lead discipline,

b) filling in the registration form,

c) entering the grade point average obtained in the course of the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies or the Uniform Master's Studies or equivalent; the data shall be entered on the basis of the diploma supplement referred to in Section 8(2)(1) or the certificate referred to in Section 8(2)(3) of the Recruitment Rules. In the case of candidates who have completed their studies outside the Republic of Poland, the above results shall be converted by the doctoral school into the system applicable in the Republic of Poland proportionally, according to a percentage of the maximum possible number of points. The data entered by the candidate shall be verified on the basis of the documents provided,

d) uploading an up-to-date photograph in a format meeting the requirements specified for ID cards in case of citizens of the Republic of Poland or for passports in case of foreign nationals,

e) making legible scans in PDF format of all the paper documentation (and the photograph that has been uploaded to the IRK system) that the candidate submits as part of the recruitment procedure, and then uploading them to IRK within the timeframe provided in the recruitment schedule for online registration. In particularly justified cases, the candidate may apply to the chairperson of Recruitment Committee for setting an individual deadline for submitting certificate of the grade point average referred to in Section 8.2.3 of Recruitment Rules, while the said deadline may not be later than 3 days before the beginning of the time frame set for interviews. Each scanned file name should include the candidate's full name and an indication of the document scanned, as follows: Surname_Forename_name of scanned document,

f) attributing one’s academic record to the discipline(s) to which the candidate's research and publication activities pertain, by submitting a statement to this effect in the IRK platform,

g) submitting by the candidate being a foreign national a statement concerning his/her wish to use a place in the UL Student Dormitory after admission to SD BioMedChem. UL does not guarantee the granting of a place in the UL Student Dormitory, h) after registration in IRK - checking IRK account on a daily basis to receive any messages.

h) after registration in IRK - checking your IRK account on a daily basis to receive and/or send messages.

Required documents:

In addition to the confirmation specified in the introductory paragraph, admission documents that the candidate is to submit are listed in Section (§) 8 of Recruitment rules for Bio-Med-Chem Doctoral School of the University of Lodz and Lodz Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2026/2027 academic year:

1. an application form for admission to the doctoral school printed from the IRK system and signed;

2. a copy of the diploma of completion of the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies or the Uniform Master's Studies or equivalent, together with a copy of diploma supplement with grade average from the period of studies (subject to Section 8(2)(3) - original or a copy certified by an UL employee to be a true copy of the original;

3. if a candidate has completed his/her studies abroad, the diploma must be legalised or apostilled, and confer the right to apply for the award of a doctoral degree in the country whose higher education system includes the institution which has awarded it. In the case of a diploma issued in a language other than Polish or English, a translation into one of these languages must also be submitted. The candidate shall submit a statement with a commitment to provide a sworn translation of the aforementioned diploma into Polish within the time limit specified in the statement (Annex 2 to the Recruitment Rules);

4. candidates referred to in Section 2(2) of the Recruitment Rules shall submit a certificate of the grade point average obtained in the course of the Bachelor’s and Master’s studies or the Uniform Master's Studies or equivalent, as well as a commitment to provide a certificate of having passed the diploma examination and having been awarded the Master's degree till 23 July 2026 (a template of the commitment is set out in Annex 3 to the Recruitment Rules); the aforementioned persons shall provide a copy of the diploma confirming the obtaining of the degree referred to in Section 2(1) of the Recruitment Rules, before commencing curriculum at the BioMedChem,  

5. an outline of the proposed doctoral dissertation with a statement confirming that the candidate has never previously prepared or defended a doctoral dissertation in the proposed topic (the obligation to submit the aforementioned statement does not apply to cases of transfer from another doctoral school and to persons who will be studying under a cotutelle agreement and are already studying at a foreign university at the time of recruitment). The outline, including the bibliography, must not exceed 5 pages in A4 format; font - Calibri 12, spacing 1.5; margins 2.5. A template of the outline is found in Annex 4 to the present Rules. The outline must include:
- an introduction with indication of the research problem, a review of the literature on the topic together with an indication of the "research gap" in science that the candidate intends to fill with his/her research,
- the research hypothesis and/or objective,
- planned means of verifying the hypothesis and/or achieving the research objective,
- key research methods to address the research problem,
- selected key literature references (max. 10 items).

In the case of candidates referred to in Section 12 clause 7 of the present Rules, the English language is acceptable for the outline.

6. a statement of an UL employee, or an employee of an Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences co-creating the BioMedChem Doctoral School, on his/her readiness to act as a supervisor (if the candidate has such a consent) - according to the template available in the IRK system. In the absence of such statement, the candidate submits an application for the appointment of a selected person, who is qualified to act as a supervisor, to the role of supervisor of the candidate’s doctoral dissertation (Annex 5 to the Recruitment Rules); the said person is chosen from the list of potential supervisors that SD BioMedChem shall make available on its website not later than one month before the start of the recruitment procedure.

It is required that the topic of the doctoral dissertation, as specified in the candidate's outline, be consistent with the research interests and specialisation of the person selected from the list of potential supervisors. 

7. a questionnaire for evaluation of the candidate's documentation (Annex 6 to the Recruitment Rules), which is the candidate's declaration of achievements to be evaluated; 

8. a document confirming the candidate's knowledge of English of at least B2 level (in the case of a certificate or diploma - a copy - an original for inspection, in the case of certificates - an original) in accordance with the List of Documents Confirming the Knowledge of a Modern Foreign Language (Annex 7 to the Recruitment Rules), if the candidate does not have the aforementioned document, he/she shall take the foreign language examination under the principles laid down in Section 10 (1)-(2) of the Recruitment Rules,

9. confirmation of previous research activities (during the recruitment procedure, an account shall be taken of the candidate's documented research and organisational activity corresponding to the disciplines in which the Bio-Med-Chem Doctoral School is conducted:

• publications – only works published or accepted for publication with editorial approval will be considered; the candidate must provide a bibliographic notice allowing full identification of the work and the page of the publication containing an abstract,
• participation in scientific conferences - printout of abstract from conference materials, full conference details,
• patents - confirmation by a patent attorney or by the Patent Office,  

10. attestation of other achievements including, in particular: employment contract or civil law contract (a copy - an original for inspection), statement confirmed by a decision-maker or an institution, copy of diploma of completion of an additional study programme, certificate confirming mobility (confirmation of type of activity and its duration), candidate shall also submit Curriculum Vitae indicating max. 3 of his/her most important achievements from the list of Other Achievements and the substantive reasons for their choice (max. 5 sentences), taking into account the qualities demonstrating that the candidate is prepared for starting the programme of SD BioMedChem,  

11. a candidate with a certificate of disability / degree of disability issued based on the provisions of the Act of 27 August 1997 on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities (consolidated text Journal of Laws of 2025, item 913 as amended) shall submit a copy of the certificate with other recruitment documents if he/she intends to exercise additional rights under the law; 

Candidates of foreign nationality (citizenship) also submit:

a) a document confirming the legality of their residence in the territory of the Republic of Poland in the form of a copy of a current visa or residence card immediately after obtaining one of the aforementioned documents, at the latest by the end of the first semester of study at the doctoral school,

b) a written designation of an address for service in the territory of the Republic of Poland or appointment of a representative ad litem (for the purposes of service of letters and administrative decisions) – applicable to candidates who do not have their domicile or habitual residence or registered office in the Republic of Poland, another Member State of the European Union, the Swiss Confederation or a Member State of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) - a party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. If the above obligation is not fulfilled, decisions and letters shall be left in the candidate's file with effect of having been served.

English language test will be conducted on 1 July 2026.

Detailed information will be sent to registered candidates via the IRK recruitment platform message box.

Interviews with candidates will be held in the following time frame: 

10-15 July 2026

Detailed information will be sent to registered candidates via the IRK recruitment platform message box.

* applies to candidates who have been admitted to the recruitment procedure despite the fact that they do not hold a Master's degree (on the basis of Section 2(2) of the Recruitment Rules) and who have made a commitment to provide a certificate of having passed the diploma examination and having been awarded the Master's degree, within the time limit specified in the recruitment schedule

till 23 July 2026

applicable to candidates whose doctoral scholarship will be financed in whole or in part from external funds:

by 19 September 2026

Candidate should deliver their originals in the following time frame:

19 - 25 June 2026 – documents shall be deemed delivered on the date of receipt by the Doctoral School.

Documents should be submitted in person* or sent via postal service to the following address: 

Centrum Szkół Doktorskich UŁ

Sekretarz SD BioMedChem

p. Małgorzata Grzelak
ul. Matejki 21/23
90-237 Łódź
pok. 110

You can deliver documents in person on weekdays 9am-2pm.

*candidates residing abroad may send a prolongation request to the Director via message box (according to Section 8 Clause 3 of Recruitment Rules), with a simultaneous commitment to deliver original documents before the date of signing the oath – please use the IRK platform's message box or e-mail the Secretary for this purpose.