The scientist from the Optical Biosensors research team Markéta Bocková won the Bolzano Prize at the award ceremony for the best students and graduates of the Charles University.
Professor Harith Ahmad, who works at the Photonics Research Centre of the University of Malaya, had a lecture talk about pulsed fiber lasers at the Institute.
A secondary-school student who won the competion organized as a part of the Open Days to spend one day with a scientist, visited the Optical Biosensors team.
On 4 December, scientists from the Nano-optics team and Fiber Lasers and Non-Linear Optics attended the Days of Science at Christian Doppler Grammar School.