Martin Schäfer receives Otto Wichterle Award
20. 06. 2025
On Wednesday, June 11, 2025, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Radomír Pánek, presented an award to young researchers at the beginning of their careers - the Otto Wichterle Award. Among the researchers awarded was Martin Schäfer from the Department of Theoretical Physics of the NPI.
Martin Schäfer specializes in microscopic calculations of hadron systems and high-precision simulations of nuclear processes, key to understanding the beginning of the universe. He received his doctorate from the Czech Technical University in Prague, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the principal investigator of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic project Ab initio calculations of nuclear processes for Big Bang nucleosynthesis and energy from nuclear fusion.
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