6 talented young scientists from BUT received the Hlávka Foundation Prize


Awarded BUT students (from right) with Rector Ladislav Janicek (centre). Oldřich Panáček (FEEC) as the second from the right | Author.

The celebration of the International Student Day and the commemoration of the Velvet Revolution is preceded each year by the awarding of the Josef, Marie and Zdeňka Hlávka Foundation Prize for talented students up to the age of 33. This year's award ceremony, which took place on 16 November at the Josef Hlávka Chateau in Lužany near Přeštice, also included representatives of the Brno University of Technology. The award, accompanied by a contribution of CZK 25,000, went to six students or graduates of the Technical University of Technology who are engaged in demanding scientific and technical fields in which they achieve exceptional results.

The Josef Hlávka Prizes are awarded by the Board of Directors of the Foundation on the proposal of the rectors of universities. Based on the proposal of the Rector of the BUT, the following received the awards:

  • Oldřich Panáček from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication Technologies of BUT (FEEC),
  • Jan Blahut from the Faculty of Chemistry of BUT (FCH),
  • Michal Kučera from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of BUT (FAST).
  • Jakub Vrábel from CEITEC BUT,
  • Tereza Zemánková from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of BUT (FSI),

The special prize of Professor Daniel Mayer, which is awarded through the Hlávka Foundation to the best students of electrical engineering faculties on the proposal of their deans, was awarded to Karel Juřík (FEKT).

Karel Juřík from FEEC (first from right) with the Rector of the BUT during the acceptance of the Daniel Mayer Award | Author: Hlávka Foundation

Oldřich Panáček is a graduate of the bachelor's degree programme Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Science and Technology. In his bachelor thesis focusing on the analysis of diagnostic parameters of the heart he used technical, medical, mathematical and programming approaches. He is currently continuing his studies at the postgraduate level in Bioengineering, where he focuses on the study of medical technology, signal processing and medical data processing.

Jan Blahut is a graduate of the follow-up Master's degree programme in Chemistry and Chemical Technology at the Faculty of Chemistry. His master thesis focuses on the optical properties of thin films of perovskites, which are among the materials of the future in areas such as high-speed communications and renewable energy.

Michal Kučera is a PhD student at the Department of Structural Mechanics and a graduate of the Civil Engineering programme, majoring in Structures and Transportation Engineering at FAST. His master thesis and subsequent research focuses on modern methods of modelling failure and fracture processes in concrete with emphasis on the influence of variability of material characteristics.

Jakub Vrábel is a student of the PhD programme Advanced nanotechnologies and microtechnologies at CEITEC BUT, where he works in the Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy. His research focuses on the connection between physics and machine learning. The goal is to use physics principles and models to interpret artificial neural networks, and also to use information about the physics of the studied problems to improve the algorithms used for scientific data.

Tereza Zemánková is a graduate of the follow-up Master's degree programme Physical Engineering and Nanotechnology at FSI. During her studies she achieved a high level of experimental knowledge and skills in optics and quantum mechanics. She has capitalized on these in her master thesis, which deals with the optical levitation of dielectric nanoparticles and the cooling of their thermal motion.

Karel Juřík (Professor Daniel Mayer Prize) is a PhD student at the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Electrical Engineering, FEEC. He is researching electromagnetic resonators for energy pumping ion engines and their application in satellites in very low Earth orbit.

"Congratulations to our students and thank you to the Foundation, whose prizes make it possible to highlight the best talented students who, through their achievements in study or research, I believe are heading for future valid professionals in their fields. We are very honored that Mr. Josef Hlávka, this prominent supporter of Czech higher education, in his generous bequest in the Foundation's mission statement, remembered our Technical University, then the only Czech university in Brno, and made it possible for our students to compete for Foundation awards today along with Czech universities in Prague. I am convinced that the awarded students of our technical studies will become a significant and much-needed contribution to the Czech industry after their graduation and entry into practice," said Ladislav Janíček, Rector of the BUT, who also attended the award ceremony.

The Josef, Marie and Zdenka Hlávka Foundation, commonly known as the Hlávka Foundation, is the oldest existing Czech foundation, founded on 25 January 1904 by the prominent architect and builder Josef Hlávka. After 1953, the foundation could exist only formally by decision of the communist government. Its activity was fully restored thanks to the social changes after 1989. The mission of the Foundation is to support the scientific, literary and artistic endeavours of the Czech nation, to contribute to the satisfaction of its cultural needs and to support needy and gifted students at Czech public universities in accordance with the will of the founder of the Foundation. The Josef Hlávka Prize for the best students and graduates is awarded on the proposal of the rectors to students and graduates of Prague public universities, Brno Technical University and young talented staff of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Related news in Czech: Ceny Josefa Hlávky za rok 2022

Source: zvut.cz

 

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