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FRASCAN II spectrometer, developed by our research group, has won the prestigious Golden AMPER Award at AMPER 2025.

"It's a great honor for us, especially given the strong competition from both academia and industry. This recognition confirms that devices developed for basic research can compete with the latest industrial innovations," says Petr Neugebauer, head of the research team.

Our new state-of-the-art 329 GHz ESR spectrometer equipped with dynamic nuclear polarization capabilities (DNP), FRASCAN II, was presented during a grand unveiling ceremony attended by esteemed scientists and partners at CEITEC Masaryk University.

  Join us for an exciting workshop on Advances in Magnetic Resonance, taking place from October 17-18, 2024. The Advances in Magnetic Resonance international workshop aims to bring together experts in magnetic resonance spectroscopy. During the 2-day workshop, the speakers will deliver lectures covering all the aspects of magnetic resonance: hardware and method development, application, use of chemistry, and magnetic resonance imaging. This comprehensive overview will be very helpful for beginners in magnetic resonance as well as for advanced users to deepen their knowledge and stimulate new ideas. Don't miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and network with professionals. Register now to secure your spot!

Brazilian researcher Dr. Vinicius Santana, our junior researcher, collaborated with biologists and chemists to explain a bioluminescence mechanism. The findings were published in a highly acclaimed study in the Nature Catalysis magazine.

She wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic of "Development of Fourier Transform InfraRed Spectroscopy in High Magnetic Fields".

We wish Janka good luck with all her future endeavours.

This year, a traditional Christmas party was held in Bowling Bar Rubin, as in the previous year. We wish all our associates Merry Christmas and all the best for 2024.

Vinicius Santana, a Brazilian scientist exploring the area right between physics and chemistry has been part of Magneto-Optical and THz Spectroscopy group since 2018.

Our PhD student Jan Juráková won the Best Review Article Award 2022 at Monatshefte für Chemie, Chemical Monthly with her article "Co(III) single-ion magnets: synthesis structure, and magnetic properties."

"You can only attend once in a lifetime. Twice, if you win a Nobel Prize." This sentence has Lucka heard during the welcoming speech at the 71st edition annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. 

Antonín Sojka has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Santa Barbara for almost a year. Even though he never wanted to even get a Ph.D. At CEITEC BUT, he worked on electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) within our research group. 

He wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic of "Magneto optical studies of solid states materials".

We wish Artur good luck with all his future endeavors and also with his Post-doc position in the United States.

Our research group has assembled for a Christmas party at the Bowling bar Rubin, followed by a visit to the Yacht Club. We would love to take this opportunity to wish each of you a Merry Christmas, a relaxing holiday season, and all the best in the upcoming year of 2023!

He wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic of "Single-Molecule Magnets with Trigonal Symmetry of the Coordination Polyhedron: Structure, Magnetic Properties, and Deposition on Surfaces".

We wish Lubomír good luck with all his future endeavors and with his Post-doc position at Akademie věd ČR, where he will continue in the research of molecular magnetism.

Our recent results in rapid scan HFEPR are acknowledged by the American Institute of Physics as a Perspective Letter and a Scilight article "Rapid scanning explores high-frequency spin relaxation without the hassle".

Our PhD student Jan Dubský received JCMM Brno PhD Talent 2021 for his project on "Development of a 500 MHz DNP-NMR system". This scholarship helps starting PhD students with 300 000 CZK over 3 years.

Our PhD student Jana Dubnická-Midlíková won the RSC ICMM 2021 Poster Prize with her poster "Development of FTIR Spectroscopy in High Magnetic Fields."

Our PhD student Lucie Kotásková with her project on "Synthesis of molecular switches functionalised by stable radical substituents" was among the 25 awarded students who were selected out of 130 applicants in total for 2020 call. JCMM Brno PhD Talent helps starting PhD students with 300 000 CZK over 3 years.

The Danubius Award was created in 2011 by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education , Science and Research (BMBFW) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM) with the intention to honor persons with extraordinary achievements in their scientific activity and output in relation to the Danube Region.

Petr Neugebauer gave an interesting interview to vedavyzkum.cz about ERC grants, inbreeding and what it takes to form a new research group in the Czech environment from a ground.

City of Brno has honoured the students of science and technical disciplines in the Ph.D. Talent competition. The scientists will receive a scholarship of 300 000 CZK per 3 years.

Talented high-school student Adam Vondráček under supervision of Ing. Antonín Sojka won the 2019/20 CEITEC Student Talent.

High expertise in the field of EPR has CEITEC BUT gained last year thanks to Vinicius Santana. Brazilian researcher was looking for a postdoc position in Europe and settled in Brno. He focuses on investigating magnetic materials using high-frequency EPR.

City of Brno has honoured the students of science and technical disciplines in the Ph.D. Talent competition. The scientists will receive a scholarship of 300 000 CZK.

Living in Brno wasn’t a direct choice for Vinicius Santana from Brazil. In fact, it was a coincidence, he ended up in the Czech Republic and he has...

Join the talks on EPR, scanning microscopy, plasmonics and terahertz technology!

Our junior researcher Pawel Jewula was awarded a PCCP poster award at 9th Barrande-Vltava French-Czech Chemistry Meeting held in Strasbourg (France) from August 26 to 27, 2018.

The project of our student Jakub Hrubý, named "Electron Spin Resonance Detection of Micro RNA in Diagnostics of Renal Cell Carcinoma" was chosen for support.

After several years spent in research institutions abroad, Petr Neugebauer, graduate of Physical Engineering at BUT, returned to Brno. His refuge will become the research center of CEITEC, where he will deal with paramagnetic resonance, which has long been devoted to.

The CEITEC PhD and Postdoc Retread is a two-day conference that brings together PhD students and postdocs of CEITEC and partner institutions working in life sciences, material sciences, chemistry and physics.