19 Jan 2024

Security at MU: early warning and police cooperation in prevention

Masaryk University has established an emergency communication and management system and is now working on increasing security. These issues are being addressed by the MU management and the Rector’s Board, whose members include deans as the highest representatives of individual faculties.

17 Jan 2024

Scientists are heading to Antarctica on Masaryk University’s 20th expedition

A total of 24 participants, including three women, will take part in Masaryk University’s 20th expedition to Antarctica. Most of the expedition (around two months) will be spent at the J.G. Mendel Czech Antarctic Station on James Ross Island. During their stay, as well as their normal research activities, the participants will be testing new devices, instruments and equipment. In addition, Czech Television will be filming a documentary on Czech Antarctic research.

17 Jan 2024

Tomáš Kašparovský, Dean of the MU Faculty of Science, has been elected as the new chairperson of the Council of Higher Education Institutions

The Assembly of the Council of Higher Education Institutions has elected Tomáš Kašparovský, Dean of Masaryk University’s Faculty of Science, as its new chairperson for the period 2024 to 2026. He received 163 out of a total of 189 votes.

19 Dec 2023

The Jaroslav Heyrovský Foundation Award for Molecular Biology goes to the Faculty of Science

The Jaroslav Heyrovský Foundation Prize in the Molecular Biology category for 2023 was awarded to high school student Tereza Šustrová and her supervisor Martin Marek from the Loschmidt Laboratories at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, where the young researcher developed a project as part of the Secondary School Professional Activity.

14 Dec 2023

Zdenek Losos and Ctibor Mazal receive the MU Bronze medals

The Dean of Masaryk University’s (MU) Faculty of Science, Tomáš Kašparovský, thanked Zdenek Losos and Ctibor Mazal for the extraordinary results they have achieved as directors of their respective departments by presenting them with MU Bronze Medals.

13 Dec 2023

Brno announces its PhD talents for 2023

We would like to share the great news from the Brno PhD Talent Competition, which already knows its winners. In this year's competition, in which SCI MUNI has traditionally had a great success rate, 12 of our PhD students out of 130 registered students succeeded.

12 Dec 2023

MUNI SCIENTISTS 2023 award for scientists from the Faculty of Science

The Grant Agency of Masaryk University presented the MUNI Scientist Awards. In total, forty-six scientists were awarded, twenty-one of them are associated with our Faculty of Science.

Congratulations to all of them!

28 Nov 2023

Martin Toul wins the Doctorandus Prize in this year’s Česká hlava Awards

This year, Martin Toul from Masaryk University’s Faculty of Science was one of the winners of the highest Czech award for scientists and their patents and discoveries, Česká hlava 2023 (Czech Mind 2023). He received the Doctorandus prize, which is awarded to young scientists for research in the natural sciences, for his work on the functions of the staphylokinase protein, which is used to treat stroke patients.