President Václav Klaus reappointed Jiří Drahoš as a head of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Physical chemist Jiří Drahoš has been heading the AS CR since 2009. Last December, the Academy Assembly – the highest body of the AS CR responsible for the foremost priority decisions related to the institution, re-elected Professor Jiří Drahoš by a secret ballot as the new candidate for the presidency for the period 2013–2017. Jiří Drahoš said he would like to change the funding of science and was planning to establish a forum for the cooperation of academics and industrialists.
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Photos: Stanislava Kyselová, Akademický bulletin
19 Feb 2013