Pawel commented, 'This election means the world to me. It shows that the research we undertake in DPAG is recognised as important by my colleagues, mentors, and science-heroes. This honour gives me motivation to carry on, with more energy and devotion. I dedicate this achievement to my mother and my late father; it would not have been possible without their love and support.'
The Academia Europaea is the Pan-European Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Letters, founded in 1988 as an initiative of the Royal Society to co-ordinate European interests in national research agencies. Its 5,500 members across Europe are leading experts from the physical sciences and technology, biological sciences and medicine, mathematics, the letters and humanities, social and cognitive sciences, economics and the law.