Today, prof. Andrews from the University of California gave the lecture at ÚFE on the topic of personalized medicine and predictive treatment. After the lecture, the professor visited the laboratories conducting related research.
During her half-day visit, the President of the Cezch Academy of Sciences Eva Zažímalová visited seven laboratories in the building in Kobylisy. The management of the Czech Academy of Sciences appreciated the cutting-edge research supported by prestigious projects, as well as the growing successful commercialization of some research outputs.
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.
Consortium of eight partners from academia and research including ÚFE received financial support from the Programme Johannes Amos Comenius of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports for the AMULET project. It was successful in the Excellent Research Call. It will deal with material genetics.
