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The winner of the 16th year of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science is Evgenia Chitrova
A total of 59 women registered for this year's L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Talent Programme, including Evgenia Chitrova from the FZU. Together with two other scientists, Eva Krupičková Pluhařová and Zuzana Střížová, she has won an award for her work.
Three FZU researchers have been appointed as Emeritus Scientists
On the occasion of the Dvořák Lectures organized by the Institute of Physics, the FZU Director Michael Prouza handed over decrees to appoint the Emeritus Scientists of the Czech Academy of Sciences to three researchers from the Institute of Physics. In his opening speech, he thanked the appointed researchers – namely Pavel Novák, Ivan Pelant and Antonín Šimůnek – for making a significant contribution to the development of physical research by fulfilling their scientific visions.
From egyptology to biosensors – Ivana Víšová has won the second place in the Werner von Siemens Award
Ivana Víšová from the Optics Division has won the second place in the prestigious Werner von Siemens Award for her dissertation thesis “The study on interactions of functional surfaces with biological systems”. She has received two other prizes for it: the Bolzano Award awarded by Charles University, and the Visegrád Group Academies Young Researcher Award. In spite of her success in physics, her journey to it wasn’t completely straight; she wanted to become an Egyptologist, and Egypt has remained her grand passion until today.
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Sunil Pathak: Surface Integrity of Meso-sized Components in Laser Shock Peening
Complex magnetic behavior in rare-earth rich intermetallic compounds - R3T
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Most sought-after research themes
- Development of high average power sub-picosecond diode-pumped lasers
- Design and synthesis of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals
- Preparation of crystals of complex oxides
- Relaxor ferroelectrics
- Multifunctional properties of intermetallic alloys based on Ni-Mn-Sn
Most sought-after projects
- Nanocrystalline diamond electrodes for photo-electrochemical applications: CO2 reduction and degradation of organic contaminants in water
- Smart MEMS/NEMS resonators with functional material layers utilizing local and global nonlinearities for ultrasensitive (bio)sensing applications
- Clarifying quantum limits in biomolecules by utilizing entangled photons generated from protein bound cofactor modeled on orange carotenoid protein
- Quenched nano-fragmented domain states of antiferromagnet explored with high spatial and temporal resolution (AFQuench)
- The scandium-admixed advanced garnet scintillators (GSGAG)
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Joint Laboratory of Optics
Faculty of Science
Palacký University Olomouc
17. listopadu 50A
772 07 Olomouc
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Laboratory of Optospintronics
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
Ke Karlovu 5, 121 16 Praha 2
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PALS Research Center
Institute of Plasma Physics
Za Slovankou 1782/3, 182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
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Joint Laboratory of Low Temperature
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8
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Joint Laboratory for Magnetic Studies
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University
V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Prague 8
