OPERA COST Action Trainning School 2025
Over fifty participants gathered at the June OPERA COST Action Training School to deepen their expertise in the growth, characterization, and applications of epitaxial layers and nanostructures.
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. She acknowledged 31 fresh absolvents and their supervisors from Masaryk University. In the physics field, two fresh graduates from the Physics departments were awarded: Dr. Michal kiaba and Dr. Matej Kosiba.
MU prorector's awards for exceptional results during their postgraduate studies received those absolvents who successfully finished their doctoral studies in the standard length of 4 years. Concurrently, the absolvents needed to achieve outstanding results through their research. Research quality is reflected in their dissertation thesis and the scientific articles published in highly regarded journals of Q1 levels. The explanation of Q indexes of publications can be found for example here. The award includes a financial bonus for the graduate and their supervisors. The prorector aims to motivate current PhD students to finish their studies in a standard time with the best possible results. More about this year's award ceremony can be found here. Two fresh graduates in the physics field were awarded for the academic year 2023/2024.
Dr. Michal Kiaba and his supervisor Assoc. Prof. Adam Dubroka from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics were awarded. Michal Kiaba focused on the study of properties of ultrathin layers of metalic materials and experimentally proved their behavior predicted fifty years ago. His disertation thesis „Interface and doping induced phenomena in transition metal oxide heterostructures“ can be found here.
Dr. Matej Kosiba and his supervisor Prof. Norbert Werner from the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics were awarded. Using maching learning Matej Kosiba analyzed galaxy clusters and catalogized extragalactic sourced generating the comsic x-ray background. His disertation thesis „Machine learning analysis and cataloging of extragalactic sources“ can be found here.
Let us add that winning this award is not easy. Not all PhD students in physics manage to fulfill the primary conditions for this award, i.e., to graduate in the standard time and at the same time to achieve excellent results.
Congratulations to all the awardees!
