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