Updated. On Friday, the Dean of the Faculty of Science Tomáš Kašparovský honoured 36 personalities who had made a significant contribution to the development of the Faculty, and its departments and institutes, over the last few decades. The ceremony took place on November 19, 2021, in the refectory of the Mendel Museum, in the spirit of the anniversary of the Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy and the International Student Day. The ceremony was initially planned to mark the 100th anniversary of teaching at the Faculty (October 19, 1920), but it had to be unfortunately postponed due to pandemic measures.
Professor Doškař graduated from our faculty in general biology, with a specialisation in microbiology. He is currently a professor of molecular biology and genetics and is head of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology and the Molecular Diagnostics of Microorganisms Laboratory. He is a leading Czech molecular biologist and geneticist, especially in the field of bacteria and bacterial virus genetics. Since 2001, he has been working at Masaryk University as a professional consultant for the handling of GMOs. He is a fine example of an academic pedagogue, having managed to combine his important research work with full-time teaching. Through his long-term and successful activities, he has significantly contributed to the development of the field of molecular biology at our faculty.
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Professor Gloser graduated from our faculty in specialised biology, with a specialisation in plant physiology, and has been working professionally at the faculty since 1990. His scientific work has been focused on research into the relationships between basic functions of plants and their response to environmental conditions, and he has introduced a number of up-to-date lectures on plant physiology. For many years, he was employed as head of the Department of Plant Physiology and Anatomy. During his tenure, he introduced new methods and modernised the instrumentation, thereby significantly improving the professional level of the workplace. He was involved in the creation of the Czech Polar Research Program and has participated in many expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic. He has also contributed significantly to the popularisation of physiology and physiological ecology.
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Professor Chytrý graduated from our faculty in systematic biology and ecology and is now Professor of botany. Since 2017, he has been Director of the Department of Botany and Zoology at our faculty, where he also works as Head of the Working Group for Vegetation Research. He is an important figure in Czech botany and his international reach and reputation are extraordinary. At the turn of the millennium, his scientific activities actually saved Czech vegetation science, which was threatened with extinction or fusion with mainstream biology and ecology. An example of the area covered by vegetation science is the diversity of Siberian ecosystems and their relationship to Pleistocene and early Holocene ecosystems in Europe. The importance of vegetation science has also been strengthened through connections with disciplines such as macroecology, biogeography, invasive biology and paleoecology.
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Docent Opravilová, a graduate of our faculty, became interested in protozoa, and especially angiosperms, while still a student. At that point, angiosperms had not been systematically studied in Czechoslovakia. At the end of 1960, she took up the position of assistant in the then Department of Zoology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Science, and in 1964, became assistant Professor. Only after the revolution could she habilitate in zoology. The main focus of her work was running water invertebrates, particularly at the microbenthos and meiobenthos levels. After the revolution, she became guarantor of the GAČR project on the Pálava Biosphere Reserve. She was persistent and extremely hardworking, both in science and in teaching. Though she did not always have a sun-drenched journey through life, she always overcame adversity with balance, composure and a faith that things would improve.
A graduate of biology at our faculty, Professor Relichová is currently Professor Emeritus of Genetics at the Department of Experimental Biology, where she has been teaching the basic genetics course for almost 20 years. She was a translator and editor on the Czech version of the extensive textbook ‘Genetics’, published in 2009, and more recently in 2017. She focuses on the history of genetics and is a respected expert on the legacy of Gregor Johann Mendel. She also worked as the Director of the Mendel Museum. She was responsible for the development of the faculty as Vice-Dean, Head of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Head of the Genome Research Department, and briefly, as Head of the Department of Microbiology. Overall, she has made a significant contribution to development in the field of genetics at our faculty.
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Professor Rozkošný joined the Department of Zoology and Anthropology in 1960, where he became involved in hydrobiological research on aquatic insect larvae. While there, he became a sought-after teacher and an expert on two-winged insects of world importance. In 1984, he was commissioned to build and run the newly-established Department of Environmental Protection and Creation (now RECETOX), where he worked for the next 10 years. He returned to the Department of Zoology in 1994 (acting as Head of the Department from 1997 to 2002) and worked there until 2004, when he was appointed Professor Emeritus. In his publications, both alone and with co-authors, he has described more than 100 new taxa and many formerly unknown dipteran larvae. He has made a significant contribution to our knowledge of this country’s fauna, as well as several entomologically under-explored countries in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions.
Docent Řehořek graduated from a Teaching Combination Course in Biology and Chemistry at the Faculty of Science in 1957, specialising in botany. In 1961, he transferred to the Department of Botany at the University of Agriculture in Nitra. When the Department of Systematic Botany and Geobotany was restored at the MU Faculty of Science in the early 1990s (after having been abolished for political reasons during the normalisation period), the resigning Head of Department, Professor Vicherk, managed to get Docent Řehořka instated as its new leader, a position he held from 1996 to 1999. Even after his retirement, he regularly visited the herbarium of the Department of Botany and Zoology as a guest and volunteered to help determine plant material.
Professor Vaňhara studied zoology at our faculty, and joined the Department of Zoology professionally in 1996, where he devoted himself to faunistics and the taxonomy of two-winged animals. In 1999, he took up a leading position in the “Biodiversity” Department, and went on to be Head of the Biology Section from 2000. Later, in 2002, he was appointed Head of the Department of Zoology, a position he held until 2005, when the smaller departments were transformed into the large Departments we know today. Thanks to Professor Vaňhara, excellent relations were developed with the former Department of Botany, resulting in the establishment of a joint Department of Botany and Zoology in 2005. He then established the Terrestrial Invertebrate Research Working Group within the newly established Department, which he led from its inception until 2011.
Professor Šimek has worked in the Faculty of Science’s Department of Comparative Physiology and General Zoology since 1964. After the revolution, he resumed research into mammalian physiology at the faculty in 1990 and, from 1991 to 2005, served as head of a newly-established Department. While there, he had to deal with several long-unsolved organisational problems inherited from the past, such as a lack of room and fragmentation of the workplace. Thanks to his efforts, the newly-named Department of Animal Physiology and Immunology is now fully consolidated and running successfully. The Department is unique in the Czech Republic in that it combines work on animal physiology with immunology and developmental biology. Professor Šimek is recognised as having made a significant contribution to this excellent situation.
Between 1961 and 1966, Professor Unger studied at the Department of Prehistory of the Faculty of Arts MU, after which he worked at the regional museum in Mikulov until 1983, focussing on fortified settlements of the lower nobility. Between 1974 and 1982, he was an external aspirant at the Archaeological Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno, where he undertook research on medieval sacral architecture and medieval burial grounds and burial rites. From 1993 to 1996, he was a founding member and researcher at the Department of Archaeological Conservation in Brno. During his research, he collaborated with the then Department of Anthropology at MU, where he has been working since 1996. In recent years, he has been studying relationships between funeral rites and human-artefacts.
Professor Havel is a graduate of Analytical Chemistry from the Faculty of Science, and now works here as a Professor. During his time at the faculty he has pioneered the introduction of computer technology in analytical chemistry. His early interest in mathematics led him to become a pioneer in a new field of science, now known as chemometry. Between 1994 and 2005, Professor Havel was Head of the Department of Analytical Chemistry, which he has helped build into a workplace capable of international comparison. His numerous foreign contacts and his pioneering work in the management of foreign Doctoral students, has contributed to a high degree of internationalisation in the workplace. Professor Havel has also served on the editorial boards of the two important journals, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems and the Journal of Applied Biomedicine.
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Professor Jonas was a long-term employee of the Department of Organic Chemistry, where he was responsible for maintaining the high quality of teaching during the ‘years of normalisation’ post 1968. Even then, he contributed significantly to the introduction and development of one of the basic methods of organic chemistry, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This also contributed to the construction of today’s Josef Dadok National NMR Centre at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC). After 1989, Professor Jonas focused his efforts on building the faculty into a globally competitive research institute. As Vice-Dean for Science and Research, and later as Dean of the Faculty, he saw the potential for further development in increasing the levels of Doctoral study programs and in the rational use of the Faculty’s resources.
Professor Klánová graduated in mathematics and chemistry at the Faculty of Science, MU. She has been working at the RECETOX centre since 2001, and was appointed Director in 2013. As part of her research, she has been developing the concept of human exposure as a set of factors affecting health, and is behind the current development of the CELSPAC population study in Brno, which deals with the behaviour of chemicals in the environment, human exposure and relationships between the environment and health in general. She has also participated in the development of new methods for chemical risk assessment, helped build international monitoring networks, taken part in long-term population studies and helped build environmental information systems. She has also led prestigious research projects under the European Framework Programs and the European Structural and Investment Fund.
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Professor Koča was a graduate of mathematics and chemistry at the Faculty of Science. At the beginning of his career, he devoted himself to computer-aided synthesis in organic chemistry. In 1996, he contributed to the establishment of the Laboratory of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics at our faculty, which was transformed into the National Centre for Biomolecular Research in 2001. Professor Koča was a visionary who was able to implement his ideas into successful scientific projects, as shown by the CEITEC project. Professor Koča was involved in the preparation of the project from 2009, and as Scientific Director of Life Sciences, he acted as guarantor for the final professional form of the project. Between 2011 and 2015, CEITEC was headed by Masaryk University but, from 2016, Professor Koča acted as Scientific Director of the entire CEITEC consortium. He also utilised his experience in science management by serving on the Board of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic from 2016, becoming its Chairman in December 2020. His work remains a living legacy that continues to fulfil the vision of quality Czech science.
At the end of the 1960s, Professor Otruba, who became famous for his use of Zeeman’s effect in splitting spectral lines in a magnetic field to correct the background in atomic spectroscopy, first assembled the laboratory apparatus needed for flame spectrometry and acquired the graphite atomiser used in Atomic Absorption Spectrometry. In 1997, he received a grant to found the Laboratory of Plasma Sources for Chemical Analysis. Since 2000, this laboratory has continued the physical research plan of the Department of Physical Electronics, under Professor Janča, and the Plasma Chemical Laboratory of our own faculty (renamed the Laboratory of Atomic Spectrochemistry in 2004), under the leadership of Professor Otruba. In so doing, Professor Otruba laid the foundations for the development of atomic and mass spectrometry at our faculty.
Professor Potáček, a graduate of chemistry and mathematics at our faculty, is a long-term employee of the Department of Chemistry, and formerly the Department of Organic Chemistry, which he headed in the 1990s. He was also involved in the management of the chemistry section, where he worked on combing departments specialising in chemistry. Professor Potáček was largely responsible for building the pavilions of the Department of Chemistry at the Bohunice university campus and, from 2009 to 2012, he led a project under the Operational Program - Education for Competitiveness called “Innovation of Education in Chemistry at the Faculty of Science MU”, which significantly improved the level of teaching and necessary infrastructure in the field of structural analysis of newly prepared molecules. Professor Potáček also contributed to the development of international relations within the workplace.
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Docent Velebný graduated from our faculty in 1972 with a degree in biochemistry. He is the owner and CEO of the Contipro biotechnology company, which produces hyaluronic acid and other medicinal substances. The company is one of the top three most successful companies in its field and exports to 70 countries around the world. Docent Velebný emphasises that the production process enables maximum quality while maintaining the highest ethical considerations. Docent Velebný represents a fine example of a successful entrepreneur who has managed to transfer the results of science and research into practice. He gladly participates in biochemical and microbiological seminars at our faculty, and recently became a member of the Program Board for the Study of Biochemistry. He has also participated in preparations for cooperation in the education of biotechnological diplomats and Doctoral students.
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Professor Žák started working at the MU Department of Inorganic Chemistry in 1963, and remained there until the end of his active career, at which time he held the position of Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, and now works at the faculty as a Professor Emeritus. During his tenure in the Department, Professor Žák introduced the most important experimental method for studying the structure of crystalline substances, X-ray structural analysis, and built the appropriate experimental laboratory. In its final form, the laboratory was world-class, both in terms of instrumentation and the experiments that took place there, including the growth and measurement of solidified liquid and gas crystals. Were it not for his pioneering work, there would be no Department of Protein Crystallography and Structures at the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC).
Docent Celý has been working at our faculty professionally since graduating in 1960. During the 1960s and 70s, he studied solid state theory, theoretical semiconductor properties (especially lattice vibration), the effect of line defects on crystal properties and ion implantation. since the 1970s, he has taught quantum mechanics, numerical models, non-linear dynamics and quantum solid state theory. His excellent study materials are still used in the teaching of quantum chemistry. After 1989, he contributed to the development of the faculty as a Vice-Dean of studies and also represented the faculty in the Academic Senate of Masaryk University.
Professor Došlá has been working at our faculty since 1981. Over the last twenty years, she has made a significant contribution to the development and promotion of the faculty. Her activities include a long period as Vice-Dean of the Faculty, and between 2004 and 2014 she oversaw external relations, economics and admission procedures, as well as rigorous management and publishing activities. At the same time, she participated in the preparation and management of faculty projects under the framework of the Operational Program – “Education for Competitiveness”, and ‘the methodology behind project preparation management’ under the Operational Program – “Research and Development for Innovation” (2008-2009). She was also a researcher under the OPVK faculty project “Education of future secondary school teachers in natural sciences and informatics”. Her present research focuses on the qualitative theory of nonlinear differential and difference equations.
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Docent Dvořák graduated in physics at our faculty, specialising in plasma diagnostics and modelling. His research now focuses on the development of probes for plasma diagnostics, analysis of processes taking place in atomisers used in analytical chemistry, and theoretical and experimental research on the nonlinear properties of plasma. From 2006, he held the post of Assistant Professor at the Department of Physical Electronics, becoming an Associate Professor in 2018. For the last ten years, he has also been the departmental Deputy Director of pedagogy. He is the author of “the concept of teaching” at the Department and is co-author of all accreditations. His participation as leader or co-leader in several important projects has also proved highly beneficial.
Docent Hoder specialises on the physics and chemistry of low-temperature plasma and sub-nanosecond diagnostics of electrical discharges. From 2008 to 2013, he was a researcher at the Leibnitz Institute for Science and Technology in Greifswald, Germany. In 2013, he received a grant from the European Science Foundation, which he worked on at the Department of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague in cooperation with the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Granada, Spain. Since 2014, he has been active at the Department of Physical Electrical Engineering, where he became a habilitator in 2020 and leads the Diagnostics and Plasma Modelling Research Group. Docent Hoder also led basic and applied research projects implemented in cooperation with industry.
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Professor Horová is a graduate of mathematical analysis at our faculty, and has worked here professionally since 1969, i.e. for more than 50 years. In the 1990s, she worked in the Academic Senate and created the field of Applied Mathematics for the Faculty of Science MU habilitation procedure. From 1997 to 2014, she was Head of what later became the Department of Applied Mathematics. During her tenure, there was a significant improvement in teaching and research in the field of numerical mathematics and mathematical statistics and modelling, along with the establishment and maintenance of contacts with many institutions, many of which resulted in cooperation on practical applications in oncology, the environment, human and veterinary medicine and financial mathematics.
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Since 2011, Docent Kováčik has been working in the CEPLANT centre at the Department of Physical Electronics, where he is responsible for, among other things, cooperation with industrial partners and research institutions, with the aim of transferring advanced plasma technologies into practice. Between 2016 and 2019, he coordinated the research activities of two major international projects under the EUREKA / EUROSTARS2 program and the Operational Program – “Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness”. In 2018, he received his habilitation at our faculty and is now leader of the Plasma Nanotechnology and Bioapplications Research Group.
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Professor Mikulášek is a leading figure in the field of astrophysics at the Faculty of Science MU and was responsible for preparing the accreditation for the Bachelor’s study program in astrophysics and the creation of its basic concept. He also contributed to the establishment of a new research direction at our university, the study of hot stars, and especially variable stars, binary stars and chemically peculiar stars. Thanks to his contributions, our faculty is now one of the world’s most important workplaces in these fields. Professor Mikulášek is also famous for his popularisation activities with the public, regularly giving highly popular public lectures and publishing books with production runs in the tens of thousands.
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Among the personalities mentioned here, Professor Musilová is perhaps most closely connected with the teaching and research of physics at our faculty. Recently, she has been significantly involved in the accreditation of the radiological physics study program. Since the early 1990s, she has played a very important role in the development of the Faculty of Science as Vice-Dean for Science, Research, International Relations and Postgraduate Studies (1992–1996), Vice-Dean for Studies (2000–2004) and as Vice-Rector for Science and Research (2004–2011). She is the main author of the three-volume textbook “Mathematics for Understanding and Practice”, a very popular work among first-year students of physics, mathematics and technical sciences which is also used outside of our university.
A graduate of Masaryk University, Professor Brzobohatý held the post of Assistant Professor of Palaeontology at our faculty until 1976, after which he had to leave the faculty for political reasons. Following his return to the Department of Geology and Palaeontology, he was appointed Professor of Palaeontology in 1991. He made a significant contribution to the development of both the faculty and the Department of Geological Sciences, having served as Dean between 1997 and 2000, and as Vice-Dean for development between 2000 and 2003, when he was involved in the preparation of the new Bohunice University Campus. His research specialisations include the systematics, taxonomy and evolution of fish, biostratigraphy and paleogeography of the Cenozoic, and the history of Earth Sciences. He currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor at the Department of Geological Sciences MU and participates in the teaching of palaeontology.
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Professor Leichmann graduated from our faculty with a geology degree in 1987. After a short stint at the Dolní Rožínka uranium mine, he joined the faculty as an assistant. In 2019, he was appointed Professor of Geology. He has contributed significantly to the development of both the faculty and the Department of Geological Sciences, having been the Chair of the Academic Senate between 2003 and 2005 and Director of the Department of Geological Sciences and Dean of the faculty between 2007 and 2010. Since 2018, he has been the Vice-Dean for Development and Quality. His spectrum of scientific interest ranges from classical petrology and luminescence microscopy, through geochemistry to geophysics. In recent years, he has focused on the formation of uranium deposits and the issue of spent nuclear fuel storage.
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Professor Konečný has been working at our faculty since 1973. As early as 1985, he co-authored the first textbook dealing with geographic information systems and began teaching the field well in advance of other academic institutions in Central Europe. After 1989, he began to fully develop geoinformatics at the faculty. Thanks to him, the Laboratory of Geoinformatics and Cartography was established in 1992, the first academic workplace for computer cartography and spatial analysis in the Czech Republic. Between 2003 and 2006, he was the first, and thus far only, representative of the Czech Republic to serve as the President of the International Cartographic Association. Throughout his time at our faculty, he has participated in the preparation of national and international projects, in which he actively involves his younger colleagues.
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Professor Prošek has been studying climatology at our faculty since the 1980s. From 1992 to 2005 he headed what is now the Department of Geography, and is currently a Professor Emeritus. He is one of the leading Czech climatologists, specialising in the climate and ecology of polar regions. His greatest contribution to the development of Masaryk University has been the establishment of Czech Antarctic research. Thanks to his purposefulness and tenacity, Masaryk University now owns and operates the J. G. Mendel Research Station on James Ross Island, Antarctica, and ensures the functioning of the Czech Antarctic Research Program. Thanks to this, our faculty is highly visible around the world and is involved widely in international cooperation.
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Ing. Brančík is a graduate of Brno University of Technology (BUT) and the University of Defence, as a civil scholarship holder in the field of aircraft construction for Aero holdings. He worked for ten years developing calculation methods for the company LET a.s. and, from 2000 to 2009, worked as Director of Development and Production in a company developing simulation technologies for aviation. Since 2009, he has been the Director of the Bohunice University Campus Administration, where he manages the operation of six departments, including Building Administration, the Information Technology Centre and operation of the University Campus Library. The Department of Facility Management methodically and professionally covers the area of building information models, building management systems and measurement and control systems for the entire university. He continues to cooperate with the faculty and has provided excellent support through a long list of events and activities.
Mr. Čermák studied at BUT while the country was still known as Czechoslovakia. Later, he left for the USA, where he studied international business, management and finance. After returning to the Czech Republic, he worked at our faculty between 2007 and 2010 as a secretary. At that time, he contributed significantly to the development of the faculty during its organisational transformation into the current Departments, the construction of the Bohunice University Campus and the reconstruction of the historic complex at Kotlářská. He was a key person in the project aimed at completing the four new pavilions for the biological department (CESEB). From 2010 to 2017, he assembled and led a Project Support Department at the faculty, which he helped reorganise and streamline significantly. From 2018 to the present, he has once again taken on the role of faculty secretary. Overall, his contributions to the development of the faculty have been quite extraordinary and long-term.
Docent Janíček has been employed as the quaestor and Vice-Rector for Economics at Masaryk University and as an academic staff member at the Faculty of Economics and Administration. In addition to the standard functions of the Quaestor, where he was responsible for the management and internal administration of the university, he managed the Bohunice University Campus construction project and MU Brno historic buildings reconstruction project (2003–2010) for a total of CZK 6.4 billion. The program also included the reconstruction and completion of the Faculty of Science Campus on Kotlářská Street for CZK 610 million (2004–2006). Docent Janíček also coordinated the completion of the Bohunice University Campus between 2010 and 2014. On October 26 this year, he was elected as the future Rector of Brno University of Technology.
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Professor Holoubek is a graduate of organic chemistry at the Faculty of Science. He is an internationally recognised expert in the implementation of global conventions protecting human health from the effects of persistent organic pollutants. Professor Holoubek has been working at the Department of Environmental Protection and Creation (now RECETOX) since its establishment, and between 1990 and 2013, he was head of the institution. During his educational activities, he concentrates on issues of chemical pollution, including the risks and impacts associated with it and the various environmental protection technologies available, while his research focuses on the fate of persistent organic pollutants and the analysis of environmental risks associated with their presence in the environment. The society also benefits from his activities in transferring scientific results into legislation.
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Professor Slovák graduated in mathematical analysis at our faculty. From 1983 to 1991, he worked as a researcher at the Mathematical Department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno, and from 1991 to 1992 as a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. From 1998 to 1999, he held the position of Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University, and from 2000 to 2003, he managed the Faculty of Science as Dean. He has been a Professor at the faculty since 2001. Between 2003 and 2005, he served as MU Vice-Rector, and from 2006 to 2011, managed the MU Technology Transfer Centre. Since 2015, he has been the Director of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. His main area of research is geometric analysis, and his most significant results have come from analytical and algebraic aspects of the theory of differential operators.
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Marie Tupá trained as a gardener and graduated from the Bohunice Gardening School. On August 1, 1969, she joined the Faculty of Science Botanical Gardens as a gardener. While working there, she undertook distance studies in horticulture at the Horticultural Faculty of the University of Agriculture in Lednice. In 1998, she became head of the botanical garden, and worked in this position for 17 years until her retirement in 2015. Under her leadership, the garden began to offer the first information materials to visitors and speaking panels in Czech and English were added to the greenhouses. She has also set up a very extensive garden website which is available in four languages. Under her leadership, the botanical garden became a founding member of the Union of Botanical Gardens of the Czech Republic in 2005.
Professor Gelnar is an internationally respected expert in the field of ichthyoparasitology. He is a reviewer for several international journals and grant agencies and is an excellent organiser of science. He has acted as leader for 16 projects and has participated in the organisation of several international conferences, international courses and summer schools. He is a member of several scientific and institutional councils.
In addition to these activities, he has made a significant contribution to the development of the Faculty of Science MU through his many years as Dean and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science. As Dean, he was responsible for the transition of the faculty to a highly effective two-stage procedure, and under his leadership, the faculty became highly successful in obtaining research grants. During his term as Dean, the most important elements of the construction of the Bohunice University Campus took place. Professor Gelnar, as Dean of the Faculty, made a very significant contribution to the smooth transfer of a substantial part of the Faculty to the new premises, as well as securing the financing necessary and ensuring their effective. It is also thanks to Professor Gelnar that a cooperation mechanism with the CEITEC University Institute was successfully concluded.
This year's Open Day, organised by our students, attracted approximately 500 interested high school students. Future applicants learned details about the study programmes offered, the admissions process and about studying itself.
After a long and difficult illness, Martina Pokorná, our alumna, passed away. She had been with the institution since 2012, serving as the Deputy Director for Administration and later briefly as the Deputy Director for HR. Martina contributed to the close collaboration between the Faculty of Science...
