Honorary medals of the Czech Academy of Sciences awarded to two personalities of the IPM

11.11.2025
On Thursday, November 6, 2025, Prof. RNDr. Ludvík Kunz, CSc., dr. h. c. and Prof. Ing. Karel Hrbáček, DrSc. received Ernst Mach honorary medals for their contributions to the physical sciences from the President of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prof. Radomír Pánek. „We nominated both colleagues for the medal at the same time. They […] Read article

Česká hlava Award for NenoVision s.r.o.

10.11.2025
NenoVision s.r.o., with which ÚFM closely cooperates on a number of projects, received the prestigious Česká hlava 2025 Award in the INDUSTRY category, the CSG Award, for its product LiteScope – an in situ atomic force microscope. Read article

Ivo Šulák was awarded the Lumina quaeruntur grant

4.11.2024
At a ceremony held on 25 October 2024, nine scientists received the Praemium Academiae and Lumina Quaeruntur grant from CAS President Eva Zažímalová. Among the awardees is Dr. Ivo Šulák from the Institute of Physics of Materials, who was awarded the Lumina quaeruntur grant. Read article

Advanced manufacturing revs up in Europe with 3D printing

12.9.2024
The European Commission portal published an article in Horizon magazine mentioning the successfully implemented project Structural Integrity and Reliability of Advanced Materials obtained through additive Manufacturing (SIRAMM). Prof. Luboš Náhlík was the co-investigator of the project for the IPM. Read article

The project Mobility of PhD students of the IPM selected among the „BEST“ of the OP RDE

4.12.2020
At the end of the Operational Program Research, Development and Education (2014-2020), in which more than 16,000 projects were implemented, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports published a brochure dedicated to the “BEST” on the management and implementation of this program. Page 11 of the brochure is devoted to the project of foreign mobility […] Read article

Creep machines of Kappa series at IPM are presented as a success story of Zwick/Roell company

20.4.2020
Zwick/Roell company presents on its website research of material in IPM using creep machines and machines for quasi-static tests at very high temperatures (up to 1600 °C). Read article