The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has successfully defended its prestigious HR Excellence in Research award, which it has held since April 2019. The Institute defended this award at the highest possible level, in the form of an extension without any additional conditions and without the need for any mandatory corrective measures.
Astrophysicist and science popularizer Jiří Grygar from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences received the Neuron Foundation Award for promoting a love of science at the Prague Planetarium.
One of the winners of this year's CRYTUR Award for the best thesis in materials science, selected from more than fifty entries from Czech and Slovak universities, was Ing. Monika Kotyková, who, while studying at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, also works in the Department of Optical Materials at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
As the end of the year approaches, we at FZU have once again continued our tradition and decided to make the Christmas holidays more enjoyable for those who find themselves in difficult life situations.
The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences recently hosted a ten-member delegation from HCMC University of Technology and Education (HCMUTE) in Vietnam. Representatives of both institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which paves the way for long-term scientific and research cooperation in the field of research and development of technologies for industrial and scientific applications and in the field of sustainable energy.
On Wednesday, December 3, we welcomed Stéphanie Legoupy, scientific attaché at the French Embassy in Prague, to the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences at Slovanka.
Martin Nikl from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences received the Czech Technical University Medal, First Class. He received the award for his significant contribution to the development of scientific and educational cooperation between the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of CTU and the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the field of materials research and applications (lasers, sensors, scintillation materials).
On 11 November, FZU hosted a conference on the creation of start-ups and spin-offs rooted in scientific research.
Jindřich Musil was born on January 19, 1934, in Březina. After graduating from the University of Defense in Brno in 1957, he started to pursue his career in science; first as a researcher at Tesla, then, from 1961, at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Plasma Physics and the Institute of Physics.
