Jiří Homola, director of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, spoke in an interview for Týden magazine in the second part of the series Czech Science Close: Photonics and Electronics.
ÚFE is the main coordinator of the project LasApp: Breakthrough Laser Technologies for Smart Manufacturing, Space and Bio-Tech Applications, which succeeded in the Excellent Research call of the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius. On 18 January we held a kick-off meeting with the project partners.
This year we are launching 4 new projects supported by the Excellent Research Call of the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius (OP JAK) and 2 applied projects from the TREND programme. We are the main coordinator of the LasApp project (OP JAK), in the others we are a partner.
Pavel Baran, Chairman of the Science Council of the Cezch Academy of Sciences, visited our department on Friday, 5 January. He visited the laboratories of the national time standard, optical biosensors, fibre lasers and others.
Jan Pokorný from the Fiber Lasers and Non-linear Optics research team became the winner of the 10th jubilee competition for the best diploma thesis of the Crytur Prize, together with his supervisor Pavel Peterka.
ÚFE employees took part in a charity collection for children and adults from the asylum in Horní Počernice. They donated children's clothes, shoes and other necessities for children and adults.
Michal Kamrádek organized a seminar on 13 December within the mobility project between the ÚFE research team Fiber Lasers and Nonlinear Optics and the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena in Thüringen. The seminar took place in the ÚFE main building in Kobylisy.
On 8 December, the Institute of Photonics and Electronics hosted the 4th annual seminar Protecting Critical Infrastructures with Laser Technologies, organized as part of the AV21 Strategy.
