30 Jun 2021

The Election of a New Dean

On 31st January 2022, the current Dean's term of office will expire. The Academic Senate of the Faculty of Science MU has announced the election of a new Dean.

Dean´s Awards

Last week, Dean Tomáš Kašparovský personally presented the Dean’s Awards for Best Students at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. This year, he presented the Dean’s Awards to a total of 12 laureates in the Best Student category in the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs, and 14 promising researchers in the Best Student category in the Doctoral degree program. Congratulations to all the winners!

28 Jun 2021

The L´Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science went to Terezie Mandáková this year

Cytogeneticist Terezie Mandáková, who works at the CEITEC MU and at the Faculty of Science, MU in Brno is the winner of this year's L´Oreal-UNESCO competition for Women in Science. She is an internationally renowned scientist in the field of plant cytogenetics. She studies plant chromosomes and genomes. Congratulations!

25 Jun 2021

TRANSFERA TECHNOLOGY DAY 2021

The association Transfera.cz has launched the 2nd national call for late stage proof of concept research projects aiming at further development towards application.

VIDEO: An astrophysicist reassures us “an artificial black hole would only create a small cavity”

Without Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity, we would be unable to use GPS today. Astrophysicist Norbert Werner from our faculty explains why it pays to explore the universe. Norbert is a world-renowned expert on black holes and would like to get to know extra-terrestrial life. Norbert was recently interviewed by the actor Tomáš Matonoha in the first part of an iDNES.cz project, called ‘Svedu vědu’ or ‘I can do science’. (in Czech only).

16 Jun 2021

Tomáš Němec wins the Živa magazine award

On June 14, 2021, the popularisation magazine ‘Živa’ awarded a prize for the best articles in 2019 at a solemn ceremony at the Lanna villa in Prague. The winners included David Storch, Jiří Kolbek, Barbora Křížová and Tomáš Němec from our Department of Botany and Zoology, whoses article focused on contemporary terrestrial snails as food for different groups of predators, including ground beetles. The award was also given posthumously to the important zoologist, Jan Zima.

10 Jun 2021

Rector Bareš praised the extraordinary achievements of our scientists

On the occasion of the academic holiday ‘Dies academicus’ on Thursday, June 10, 2021, the Rector of Masaryk University, Martin Bareš, presented the Rector’s Awards for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Research, Teaching Activities, Art and Civic Activities to four scientists from the MU Faculty of Science.

10 Jun 2021

University city par excellence. Brno will again support Doctoral students

 ‘Project Brno Ph.D. Talent’, under the auspices of the South Moravian Centre for International Mobility (JCMM), will continue to provide financial support to Doctoral students. More than 9 million crowns, provided by the city of Brno, will be distributed among promising scientists studying technical and scientific postgraduate programs.