CAS top management visited NPI of the CAS

On November 14, 2023, NPI was visited by Prof. RNDr. Eva Zažímalová, CSc., president of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Ing. Ilona Müllerová, DrSc., vicepresident of the CAS.  They were accompanied by members of the Academic Council of the CAS: prof. RNDr. David Honys and doc. RNDr. Tomáš Kostelecký, CSc. Further guests from the CAS were Ing. Leoš Horníček, Ph.D., JUDr. Katarína Mocková, Mgr. Dita Hladíková and Mgr. Iva Raitermanová.

Among the agenda, there were an introduction to the current state of scientific activities, solved important scientific projects at the national and international level and the economic and personnel situation in the NPI in the current socio-economic situation in the Czech Republic.

Furthermore, we informed our guests about our achievements in the JAC programme Excellent Research call, assigned projects of JAC programme and acquired projects within Horizon Europe programme. We have also emphasized our erudition and competences in the field of accelerator and nuclear technologies, nuclear and particle physics and the use of our CANAM infrastructure in connection with the above mentioned projects and large international collaborations.

There was presented the latest unique research in the field of radionuclide production in cooperation with commercial entities and the scientific future of our newest instrument acquisition – the AMS laboratory.

The president and vicepresident of the CAS (from the right) together with senior staff of the NPI listened to the presentation of Ing. Ondřej Svoboda, PhD., director of the NPI