The same point of view:

MU Faculty of Science then and now

Physics Building No. 6.

Jakub Švenda:

For popularisation reasons, finished research is often presented as a relatively simple process. But in the background of success there is a lot of work, determination and occasional disappointment.

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University traffic-light system GREEN light

Due to changes in the current epidemiological situation, the university escalation traffic light is, from Monday, May 31, 2021, switched to the green colour.

Current News

18 Jun

How to read a virus

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, scientists worldwide have been trying to figure out the insidious pathogen. Even after more than a year of hard research, however, countless questions still revolve around. Czech experts are also looking for much-needed answers - for example, the Brno biologist Omar Šerý, who works at our Faculty of Science. Read an interview for the magazine Zázraky medicíny. (In Czech only.)

17 Jun

Masaryk University is buying a biotechnology incubator building from the region for 120 million

Masaryk University in Brno has bought the INBIT building at the university campus in Bohunice from the South Moravian Region. A building where a biotechnology incubator is located offers premises to companies that need an immaculate environment and facilities of a biotechnology laboratory. The premises will be used mainly by RECETOX, the research center at the Faculty of Science MU. (The article is available in Czech only.)

17 Jun TIP

VIDEO: An artificial black hole would create only a small cavity, reassures the astrophysicist

Without Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity, we would not be able to use, for example, GPS today. In the first part of the iDNES.cz project called Svedu vědu, astrophysicist Norbert Werner from our faculty, a world-renowned expert on black holes, explains why to explore the universe. Watch the video interview by the actor Tomáš Matonoha in Brno (in Czech only).

16 Jun

Tomáš Němec won the Živa magazine award

On June 14, 2021, the popularization magazine Živa awarded the prizes for the best articles in 2019 at a solemn ceremony in the Lanna villa in Prague. In memoriam, the important zoologist Jan Zima received the award, as well as David Storch, Jiří Kolbek, Barbora Křížová and Tomáš Němec from our Department of Botany and Zoology whose article focused on contemporary terrestrial snails as food for various groups of predators, such as ground beetles.

Events calendar

21–25 Jun

17th RECETOX Summer School 2021

Summer School is open to advanced master students, PhD candidates, researchers, and other professionals with background knowledge of chemistry, biology, environment, social sciences or epidemiological principles, and a keen interest in environmental health issues.

2 Jul

On-line WORKSHOP to support your MSCA-PF proposal preparation - BLOCK 2 - IMPACT & IMPLEMENTATION (Improve)

from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

On-line WORKSHOP to support your MSCA-PF proposal preparation

13 Jul

On-line WORKSHOP to support your MSCA-PF proposal preparation - BLOCK 3 - CV, Tips & examples, updates for 2021 call (Improve)

from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

On-line workshop to support your MSCA-PF CV preparation and to show you some tips and examples

15 Jul

Information seminar on MSCA-DN (Improve)

from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

The objective of Doctoral Networks is to implement doctoral programmes by partnerships of organisations from different sectors across Europe.

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