20 Nov

CaviPlasma for the wastewater cleaning wins two TA ČR Awards

CaviPlasma technology for the cleaning of wastewater from hard-to-remove pollutants wins the TA ČR Award in the category SOCIETY and also becomes the absolute winner with the title Czech Idea 2024.

13 Nov

2024 MU prorector's awards for exceptional results during postgraduate studies

Prof. Šárka Pospíšilová, a prorector for research and doctoral studies, gave awards to new MU absolvents for exceptional results during their postgraduate studies. In the physics field, two fresh graduates from the Physics departments were awarded: Dr. Michal kiaba and Dr. Matej Kosiba.

7 Nov

Jan Skácel on internship in Belgium used plasma physics on aerospace applications

Jan Skácel went to the von Karman Institute in Belgium for the second time. This time, he stayed for ten months and focused on the problem of charging satellites in the ionosphere for ten months.

4 Nov

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees – November/December 2024

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees for November and December 2024.

30 Oct

Unveiling the Secrets of Galaxies: International Conference in Brno Attracted Top Astronomers

Brno became the center of the global astronomical community thanks to the international conference Galaxies at Crossroads (original title GALAXIES AT CROSSROADS: OUTFLOWS AND IMF IN THE VLT/ELT/ALMA/JWST ERA). The workshop took place from September 16 to 20, 2024, and was one of the few officially approved workshops by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). It was organized by Tereza Jeřábková from ESO, who will be joining the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in February 2025, thanks to her MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH).

22 Oct

Diana Csontosová received the Milan Odehnal Prize

The Milan Odehnal Prize, a prestigious award given by the Czech Physical Society, is intended for young scientists for outstanding scientific work in the field of physics. PhD student Diana Csontosová came in an excellent second place this year in this biennial competition.

21 Oct

Lucia Švandová after 12 months in Canada

Lucia Švandová spent the last year of her Master's degree in Plasma Physics and Nanotechnology in Canada at Université Laval. Read in the interview how Lucia evaluates her internship and how it influenced her studies and future plans.

15 Oct

Alex Destrieux as an invited researcher in Brno

The treatment of organic materials for photovoltaics is the research topic of Alex Destrieux. After finishing his PhD in Canada, the French scientist came to Brno to continue his work.

15 Oct

Student physics lectures 2024

This year's F9878 Student Physics Seminar again offered students insight into how physics works here in Brno, what research are being done, how to choose an undergraduate or graduate thesis, what courses to take, how to travel during the studies, and many other useful things.

9 Oct

Looking back at Researcher's Night 2024

Transformation was the theme of this year's Night of Scientists, held on 27 September. Around 1,200 visitors came to the premises even in the bad weather. Animators from all three physics departments offered an exciting program about physics for all ages.

12 Sep

Physics at the Festival of Science 2024

The Festival of Science 2024 was held at the Brno Exhibition Centre from Friday 6 September to Sunday 8 September 2024. Around 10,000 visitors had the opportunity to peek into the attractive world of science, technology, and history. All three physics department of Masaryk University presented their program to the visitors. The event was organized by the Brno Observatory and Planetarium with the support of the Statutory City of Brno and the South Moravian Region.

11 Sep

HAKONE XVIII

Zdeněk Navrátil, Zdeněk Bonaventrua, Richard Krumpolec, Michal Pazderka, and Lucia Švandová presented their respective research at the international conference HAKONE XVIII – 18th International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry.

26 Aug

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees – September/October 2024

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees for September and October 2024.

14 Aug

Experiments on composites materials in Stuttgart

Dana Skácelová and Richard Krumpolec were invited to joint experiments in Stuttgart, Germany. The scientists worked on different ways and methods of preparing composite materials used not only in the construction industry. Now the prepared materials are undergoing testing.

8 Aug

David Holec and Ganesh Nayak visit

Dr. Ganesh Nayak from Aachen, Germany, and Assoc. Prof. David Holec from Leoben, Austria, are visiting the research group Deposition of Thin Films and Nanostructures. Together with the PVDLab computational team, they are working on two projects.

7 Aug

Collaboration with Şişecam Science, Technology and Design Center

Richard Krumpolec established a new collaboration with Şişecam, one of the largest producer of flat glass in Europe. The scientists tested the potential of plasma surface treatment on bond strength behavior of an adhesively bonded glass-polymer interface directly at Şişecam Science, Technology, and Design Center.

1 Aug

The research of antiferromagnets at Masaryk University can be a milestone in modern experimental condensed matter physics

Physicists from Masaryk University observed the fluctuating behavior of magnetic moments, which was predicted by a theory from the sixties of the last century. They contributed to a hot debate in condensed matter physics. Their experiments were performed with samples fabricated in the scientific facility CEITEC Nano. They investigated the properties of these samples in a unique spectrometer at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. They published the results of their research in the scientific journal Nature Communications.

Opravné státní závěrečné zkoušky září 2024

30 Jul

Collaboration with Tokyo Metropolitan University

Dr. Peter Klein from CEPLANT and the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology traveled to Japan to conduct joint experiments focused on the diagnostics of HiPIMS processes together with Assoc. Prof. Tetsuhide Shimizu and his team at Tokyo Metropolitan University.

26 Jul

CaviPlasma – the subject of a large number of new projects

New applications of CaviPlasma technology and, in general, of low-temperature atmospheric plasmas are the subject of six new projects by scientists from the Applied Plasma Chemistry research group of the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology.