On Friday, November 19, the Dean of the Faculty of Science awarded Assoc. Prof. Dušan Kováčik with the Gold medal of the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. Associate Professor Kováčik has been working at the Department of Physical Electronics since 2011, where he is engaged in research and development of atmospheric sources of low-temperature plasma based on dielectric barrier discharges and their potential application. Within the CEPLANT center, he is responsible, among other things, for cooperation with industrial partners and research institutions with the aim of transferring advanced plasma technologies into practice. In 2016–2019, he coordinated the research activities of two major international projects under the EUREKA / EUROSTARS2 program and the Operational Program Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness. In 2018, he received his habilitation at our faculty. He is the head of the Plasma Nanotechnologies and Bioapplications research group and the deputy director of the CEPLANT center for applied research.
Photo: Radek Miča, Dušan Kováčik
At the beginning of April, the Day with ERC, an event for junior researchers took place. The aim of the discussion meeting for junior scientists is networking. Dr. Jakub Kelar from the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology was nominated as a representative from the Faculty of Science.
Prof. Christoph Gerhard and his colleagues visited their project partners at the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology and the CEPLANT Centre in the second week of April 2024. Scientists from the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/ Holzminden/ Göttingen and our research group are working together on the functionalization of fibers.