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17 May 2024

CEPLANT at MUNI DAY 2024

Students and staff across Masaryk University could see what plasma technologies can do at this year's MUNI DAY 2024 event.

17 May 2024

Astrophysicist Tereza Jeřábková wins MASH grant

Researcher Tereza Jeřábková has been awarded a MUNI Award in Science and Humanities (MASH) by the MU Grant Agency. Jeřábková has spent the last several years abroad. She is the first female recipient of a MASH grant. She will work on her research, which is focused on understanding how stars develop in different environments, at the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

13 May 2024

Top scientists from the STARMUS festival will visit students in Brno

Prominent scientists and personalities of the STARMUS science, art and music festival, Joel Parker and Damia Barcelo, will visit Brno for a day as part of the festival programme. On Wednesday, 15 May 2024, two unique lectures will take place at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University, introducing the audience to the latest space missions or the issue of microplastics in the environment.

6 May 2024

Physicists verified the existence of a phenomenon that will help in the chip production

Take an altermagnet, put it under an x-ray machine, change the polarizing filter and watch the material absorb the light. It sounds like an experiment from a physics class, but in fact it is a groundbreaking experiment that lead to a remarkable discovery by physicists from Masaryk University, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University and the University of Nottingham.

3 May 2024

New optional course: 3D printing in practice

F3410 – 3D printing in practice is a new course of Assoc. Prof. Pavel Slavíček and Dr. Vlasta Štěpánová. It aims to introduce to students the 3D printing and its use in practice, for example in the laboratory or in teaching.

2 May 2024

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees – May/June 2024

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees for May and June 2024.

24 Apr 2024

2024 Earth Day

At Earth Day 2024 in the Botanical Garden, the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre represent physics. The Botanical Garden organizes this event every year. This year's topic was plant protection. Hundreds of people, both adults and children, came to the event.

17 Apr 2024

2024 Workshop Heart of Europe – Thin Films

The Heart of Europe workshop is a traditional gathering of scientists dealing with thin films. The center of Europe is presented by the Technical University of Vienna, Masaryk University in Brno, and Comenius University in Bratislava.

10 Apr 2024

Day with ERC

At the beginning of April, the Day with ERC, an event for junior researchers took place. The aim of the discussion meeting for junior scientists is networking. Dr. Jakub Kelar from the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology was nominated as a representative from the Faculty of Science.

10 Apr 2024

A visit from HAWK scientists

Prof. Christoph Gerhard and his colleagues visited their project partners at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre in the second week of April 2024. Together, they are working on the functionalization of fibers.

8 Apr 2024

Central European Platform for Plasma-enabled Surface Engineering begins

Since April 2024 for the next three years, CEPLANT center will lead the project COLOSSE funded by the Pathways to Synergies Call 2023 (Horizon Europe). COLOSSE connects Czech and Slovak research facilities in plasma-enabled surface engineering and boosts their potential for Horizon Europe and future EU R&I programs.

8 Mar 2024

ESCAMPIG 2024 2nd Announcement

ESCAMPIG 2^nd Announcement with detail information is available! The ESCAMPIG (Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Ionized Gases) is a biennial conference of EPS (European Physical Society). Conference topics are basic and applied plasma research. It will be held in Brno for the first time in Czechia on 9-13 July 2024. Join us!

4 Mar 2024

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees – March/April 2024

List of available external seminars and workshops for students and employees for March and April 2024.

1 Mar 2024

DPPT photo contest for the Picture of the Year 2024 has its winners

In February, the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology photo contest, The Picture of the Year 2024, took place. Look at the winners!

27 Feb 2024

Plasma and crop protection

Plasma treatment of seeds offers new possibilities for decontamination and, therefore, seed protection against bacteria and fungi. The research of Assoc. Prof. Pavel Slavíček, Dr. Vlasta Štěpánová and their colleagues investigates the treatment and its functionality. Plasma treatment is suitable for replacing chemical agents that are still used to treat seeds. It can improve germination and suppress unwanted molds, which may affect the seed storability.

9 Feb 2024

Visit of Assoc. Prof. Sebastian Dahle from Slovenia

At the end of January, a Slovenian scientist Assoc. Prof. Sebastian Dahle from Ljubljana and a doctoral candidate, Neja Bizjak, visited the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT centre.

7 Feb 2024

Canadian scientist Dr. Jacopo Profili visited the DPPT and CEPLANT Centre

In the last week of January, Canadian scientist Dr. Jacopo Profili visited the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and CEPLANT Centre. Initially a chemistry graduate, Profili is now working in Canada on preparing and modifying materials using gas discharges. As part of the INNOLEC project, he lectured on barrier dielectric discharge and its use in producing organosilicon layers.

2 Feb 2024

Astrophysicists discover that dust in galaxies affects their distance measurements in the Universe

Dust around galactic nuclei significantly affects the measurement of their distances in the Universe. This was discovered by a team of physicists led by Michal Zajaček from the Masaryk University in Brno, who analyzed ultraviolet and X-ray data from a set of 58 active galaxies.

16 Jan 2024

Project on functionalized fiber spectroscopy with HAWK Göttingen is halfway through

Scientists from the Plasma Nanotechnologies and Bioapplications research group at the DPPT and CEPLANT center investigate new possibilities for sample analysis using LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). They traveled again to Göttingen, Germany, to further measure LIBS and to discuss plans for future work. The MOBILITY projects rely on reciprocal visits between international partners and their research centers.

11 Jan 2024

Dr. Čech's research stay at the University of Innsbruck, Austria

Dr. Jan Čech from the Applied Plasmochemistry research group at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology went on a month-long research stay at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. The visit was devoted to diagnostics of the new CaviPlasma technology.