Current news

14 Feb 2022

IT Equipment loan for students in need

The Faculty of Science has been provided with 14 laptops, 25 tablets, 22 graphics tablets, 9 headphones with a microphone and webcams with a microphone from a MU project to support online education. Offered IT equipment is intended for students in need and will be provided as a loan.

9 Feb 2022

Spring 2022 semester

The Spring 22 instructions will be held in person. Persons with signs of respiratory disease are not allowed to enter MU buildings. Teachers/lecturers have the right to expel any student displaying signs of respiratory illness. Respirators must be worn inside MU buildings, including theoretical and practical...

7 Feb 2022

Forbes 30 under 30: Stanislav Drápela

Our graduate, Stanislav Drápela, who graduated from the PhD program in Animal Physiology, Immunology and Developmental Biology at the Department of Experimental Biology, has made the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2022. Congratulations! (The Forbes article is available only in Czech).

3 Feb 2022

From studies at RECETOX to dream job in Düsseldorf, Germany

31 Jan 2022

Polar Research in Hyde Park Civilization

In Saturday's Hyde Park Civilization, Daniel Nývlt, who works at our Department of Geography and heads the Czech Antarctic Research Programme, talked about the South Pole, the Antarctic station, Czech research and the transformation of the coldest continent. Filip Hrbáček, the leader of this year's expedition,...

27 Jan 2022

Martin Černohorský received Brno City Prize

Fifteen personalities were awarded the Brno City Prize for 2021. One of the awardees is Martin Černohorský, emeritus professor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at our faculty.

26 Jan 2022

Are you thirty years old and from Znojmo? Scientists will examine you in one morning

Asthma, allergies, and other diseases that can be caused by stress during pregnancy are in the sights of scientists from Masaryk University in Brno. They need volunteers from Znojmo for their research. Thousands of families have been involved in the past. Read more in the Znojemský deník (available in...

26 Jan 2022

Czech chemist reaches out to solve major clean energy problem

Our graduate Tomáš Slanina has received a prestigious ERC grant for his team to research the storage of solar energy in chemical bonds. Read more in the article on SeznamZpravy.cz (available in Czech only).

25 Jan 2022

Brno scientists study death rays from space, collaborate with Elon Musk

On Thursday afternoon, Brno made a new entry into the history of space research. Two gamma-ray detectors from a research group led by Norbert Werner from the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University flew into space at 4:30 pm on Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Read more in Brněnský deník (available...

24 Jan 2022

They wrote about us: Botanical Garden celebrates 100 years

The Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University celebrates its centenary this year. Read about the history in Brno-Central Newspaper. (Published in Czech only.)

19 Jan 2022

Launch of the MUNI Employee Portal

The faculty section of the MUNI Employee Portal will be released for MU Faculty of Science employees on 1 February 2022. The Portal will provide them with simplified central access to various applications (IS, Inet, O365) and central access to internal faculty information, documents and instructions...

14 Jan 2022

Czech Republic has another satellite in space

The Czech Republic has another satellite of its own in space, about an hour and a half ago it was carried into orbit by a SpaceX rocket. The aim of the satellite, about the size of a wine box, is to test instruments developed by domestic companies in the hostile space environment. Scientists from Masaryk...