Three New Doctors from the Institute of Materials Physics, CAS Received Their Diplomas at the BUT Rector’s Office

10.12.2025
On November 26th, 2025, the solemn doctoral and docent ceremonies at the Rector’s Office of BUT saw three of our own doctors—Ing. Kamila Kozáková, Ph.D., Ing. & Ing. Radek Kubíček, Ph.D., and Ing. Dušan Tichoň, Ph.D.—receive their diplomas. Read article

Blacksmiths from ÚFM Trade the Anvil for a Quantum Computer

10.12.2025
New technologies are opening entirely new possibilities for the development of materials. While blacksmiths spent hundreds of years testing the strength and durability of materials—such as steel—directly on the anvil, today’s scientists rely on very different methods. Thanks to supercomputers and quantum technologies, they can now predict the properties of materials atom by atom. Read article

Awards for Researchers from the Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences at the Czech Academy of Sciences Awards 2025

24.11.2025
On 21 November 2025, the Czech Academy of Sciences Awards were presented at Villa Lanna in Prague. Among this year’s laureates were two researchers from the Institute of Physics of Materials of The Czech Academy of Sciences – Assoc. Prof. Roman Gröger, Ph.D., and Ing. Jakub Poloprudský, Ph.D. Read article

Run Your Calculation on a Quantum Computer Today

20.11.2025
On Thursday, 13 November 2025, as part of the Qiskit Fall Fest, participants not only attended lectures but also had the opportunity to run a computation on a real quantum computer. Read article

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