From September 1, 2023, the name of the Department of Physical Electronics of the Faculty of Science will change. The new name is the Department of Plasma Physics and Technology (abbreviation DPPT), which better describes the essence of our activity. You can read details about the process of the name change in an interview with the director of our department, prof. Vašina.
In addition to changing the name of the institute, our research group also has a new logo. Its author is our colleague Mgr. Slavomir Sihelnik. We were choosing from several proposals from different members of the group, the first vote was even, but in the next round of voting, where 2 proposals advanced, this proposal clearly won. This was followed by other small modifications of the logo and the creation of its black and white variants, including a whole range of sizes for different occasions.
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.