News from magnetic group
The Magnetism Group welcomes a new postdoc, Paromita Mukherjee, to work on the CRYOSPIN project (principal investigator: Dr Ross Colman) investigating the rotational magnetocaloric in anisotropic systems, as a sustainable alternative to cooling using liquid helium.
We are pleased to congratulate Hayato Muto, a postdoctoral researcher in the GAČR-funded Q-MAG project at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Charles University, on receiving a Poster Award at SCES 2026 in Toyama, Japan.
Research led by Andrej Kancko, a doctoral student in our department’s Magnetism Group, has been published in Physical Review B and highlighted as an Editors’ Suggestion. Andrej is the paper’s first author, with several Magnetism Group members also contributing. The…
Petr Čermák’s team succeeded with all three submitted projects in the Open Science II Mini-Projects call. LaueDB and PP2FAIR received the maximum score of 85 points, while DanCE was supported with 81 points. Over the coming months, the projects will…
On June 18-19, 2026, the annual meeting of the Scientific Members and Associates of the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL, Grenoble, France) was held at the Institute of Physics in London, UK. The Czech Republic was represented by our colleague Milan Klicpera,…
Andrej Cabala, a student at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, and a member of the research team led by RNDr. Michal Vališka, Ph.D. at our department, has received the Award of the Learned Society of the Czech…
On Monday, February 2, 2026, our department celebrated a double feast. Our doctoral students Dávid Hovančík and Jiří Volný defended their doctoral dissertations. Dávid defended his thesis on "Orbital Moment-driven Anisotropy and Spin Dynamics in van der Waals Magnets," while…
RNDr. Michal Vališka, Ph.D. from our department became the laureate of the Neuron Award for promising scientists in the field of physics, awarded by the Neuron Foundation. He received the award at a gala evening on January 18 at the…
The Czech Science Foundation has announced the results of the Junior Star 2026 competition, in which 18 outstanding early-career scientists from all areas of basic research were successful. Among the winners is RNDr. Michal Vališka, Ph.D., from our department, who…
The Charles University Grant Agency has published the final evaluations of its funded projects. We are pleased to share that the project ‘Electrical and magnetic properties of rare-earth iridates under extreme conditions’ (no. 148622), solved by Mgr. Daniel Staško, Ph.D.,…
