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Hind Bangui, PhD
FI – postdoc, Department of Computer Systems and Communications

Awarded for the article published in Internet of Things

• Trust management in social Internet of Things accorss domains

doc. Mgr. Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Ph.D.
FSS – Associate professor, Department of international relations and European studies

Awarded for the article published in International Affairs and the article published in Journal of Contemporary European Studies

• The ambiguous impact of populist trade discourses on the international economic order
• A tale of two memberships: analysing post-2004 official governmental discourse on the EU in Czechia and Slovakia

RNDr. Jan Byška, Ph.D.
FI – Assistant professor, Department of Visual Computing

Awarded for the article published in Computer Graphics Forum and the article published in Computers & Graphics and the article published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

• Antarstick: Extracting Snow Height From Time-Lapse Photography
• Design and evaluation of alphabetic and numeric input methods for virtual reality
• InVADo: Interactive Visual Analysis of Molecular Docking Data

doc. Mgr. Pavel Dvořák, Ph.D.
SCI – Associate professor, Section of Microbiology

Awarded for the article published in Nature Communications

• Synthetically-primed adaptation of Pseudomonas putida to a non-native substrate D-xylose

Zuzana Hofmanová, Dr. rer. nat.
ARTS – Assistant professor, Department of Archaeology and Museology

Awarded for the article published in Nature

• Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities

doc. Mgr. Petr Hrubý, Ph.D.
ARTS – Associate professor, Department of Archaeology and Museology

Awarded for the book published in Brill

• Silver Mining in the Kingdom of Bohemia (13th–14th Centuries)

Ing. Ondřej Jurček, Ph.D. et Ph.D.
PHARM – Assistant professor, Department of Natural Drugs

Awarded for the article published in Angewandte Chemie

• Unsymmetric Chiral Ligands for Large Metallo-Macrocycles: Selectivity of Orientational Self-Sorting

Prateek Kalia, Ph.D.
ECON – Assistant professor, Department of Business Management

Awarded for the article published in European Management Journal

• Social influence in online retail: A review and research agenda

prof. RNDr. Petr Klán, Ph.D.
SCI – Head, Chemical Tools for Diagnosis and Therapy

Awarded for the articles published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

• Thermal Truncation of Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes
• Visible-Light-Activated Carbon Monoxide Release from Porphyrin-Flavonol Hybrids

Mgr. Martin Lang, Ph.D.
ARTS – Head, Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion

Awarded for gaining the prestigious grant GA ČR JUNIOR STAR

• Computing Religious Devotion: How Reinforcing Supernatural Beliefs Affects Normative Models in the Mind

doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Macháčková, Ph.D.
FSS – Department head, Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society

Awarded for gaining the prestigious grant ERC CZ

• Vnímání anonymity v online komunikaci (PACC)

Klára Marečková, Ph.D., M.Sc.
CEITEC – Senior researcher – Milan Brázdil Research Group

Awarded for gaining the prestigious grant GA ČR JUNIOR STAR

• Prenatální programování mozku a chování dítěte: Nové poznatky o mechanismech (ChiBra)

Ing. Miloš Musil, Ph.D.
SCI – Researcher, Loschmidt Laboratories of Protein Engineering

Awarded for the article published in Briefings in Bioinformatics

• FireProt 2.0: web-based platform for the fully automated design of thermostable proteins

PharmDr. Jan Otevřel, Ph.D.
PHARM – Assistant professor, Department of Chemical Drugs

Awarded for the article published in Nature Synthesis

• Enantioselective organocatalytic cycloadditions for the synthesis of medium-sized rings

dr. Armin Paravlić
SPORTS – Researcher, Incubator of Kinanthropology Research

Awarded for the article published in Annals of Medicine

• Effects of digital-based interventions on muscular strength in adults: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression of randomized controlled trials with quality of evidence assessment

Julia Secklehner, MPhil., Ph.D.
ARTS – Research staff, Department of Art History

Awarded for the book published in Routledge Taylor & Francis

• Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis

Mgr. Andrea Stašek
FSS – Researcher, Psychology Research Institute

Awarded for the article published in Computers in Human Behavior and the article published in The Journal of Sex Research and popularisation of the research on mental health issues among queer people in the Czechia

• Disentangling the Net of Needs Satisfaction and Gaming Disorder Symptoms in Adult Gamers
• The Role of Ageist Sexual Stereotypes in the Network of Sexual Difficulties, Sex and Relationship Satisfaction Among Adults Aged 50+
• Queer zdraví: Výzkumná zpráva o zdraví LGBTQ+ lidí v Česku a na Slovensku
• iRozhlas.cz
• ČT24
• iDNES.cz
• Novinky.cz

prof. RNDr. Jan Strejček, Ph.D.
FI – Professor, Department of Computer Science

Awarded for the articles published in conference book Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

• Witch 3: Validation of Violation Witnesses in the Witness Format 2.0
• Symbiotic 10: Lazy Memory Initialization and Compact Symbolic Execution

Mgr. Petr Svojanovský, Ph.D.
PED – Assistant professor, Department of Education

Awarded for the article published in European Journal of Teacher Education

• Modelling individuality but advising universality: ethnography of mentoring pre-service teachers with regard to student diversity

Mgr. et Mgr. Michal Tkaczyk, Ph.D.
FSS – Assistant professor, Department of Media Studies and Journalism

Awarded for the article published in Computers in Human Behavior and the article published in Journalism Practice

• Are smartphones detrimental to adolescent sleep? An electronic diary study of evening smartphone use and sleep
• Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press

Mgr. Jakub Vostoupal, Ph.D.
LAW – Researcher, Institute of Law and Technology

Awarded for the articles published in Computer Law & Security Review

• The legal aspects of cybersecurity vulnerability disclosure: To the NIS 2 and beyond
• Stuxnet vs WannaCry and Albania: Cyber-attribution on trial

Dr. -Ing. Adam Williamson
MED – Researcher, International Clinical Research Center

Awarded for gaining the prestigious grant ERC Proof of Concept

• Fabricating Non-Invasive Temporal Interference Devices for Obstructive Sleep Apnea which Electrically activate the Hypoglossal Nerve

RNDr. Michal Zajaček, Dr. rer. nat.
SCI – Postdoc, Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Awarded for gaining the prestigious grant GA ČR JUNIOR STAR and for the article published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and for the article published in Astrophysical Journal

• Stars in galactic nuclei: interrelation with massive black holes
• Effects of heterogeneous data sets and time-lag measurement techniques on cosmological parameter constraints from MgII and CIV reverberation-mapped quasar data
• Effect of extinction on quasar luminosity distances determined from UV and X-ray flux measurements

Mgr. Ladislav Bartoš
CEITEC – Research specialist - PhD student, Robert Vácha Research Group
prof. RNDr. Robert Vácha, PhD
CEITEC – Group Leader Senior, Robert Vácha Research Group

Awarded for the article published in Nature Communications

• Phospholipids are imported into mitochondria by VDAC, a dimeric beta barrel scramblase

prof. RNDr. Petr Bureš, Ph.D.
SCI – Head, Plant Biosystematics Group
Tammy L Elliott, M.Sc., Ph.D.
McGill University, Canada – postdoc
Mgr. František Zedek, Ph.D.
SCI – Researcher, Plant Biosystematics Group

Awarded for the article published in New Phytologist

• The global distribution of angiosperm genome size is shaped by climate

Mgr. Martina Dvořáčková, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Senior researcher – Jiří Fajkus Research Group
Mgr. Michal Franek, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Junior researcher – Jiří Fajkus Research Group

Awarded for the article published in Nature Communications

• In-section Click-iT detection and super-resolution CLEM analysis of nucleolar ultrastructure and replication in plants

Mgr. Miroslav Homola, Ph.D.
Schur Group, IST Austria – Postdoc
Ing. Tibor Füzik, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Senior researcher, Pavel Plevka Research Group

Awarded for the article published in Science Advances

• Structure and replication cycle of a virus infecting climate-modulating alga Emiliania huxleyi

prof. PhDr. Tomáš Janík, Ph.D., M.Ed.
EDU – Vice-dean for research and academic affairs
doc. Mgr. Petr Najvar, Ph.D.
EDU – Associate professor, Department of Primary Education
Mgr. Tereza Češková, Ph.D.
EDU – Assistant professor, Department of Primary Education

Awarded for the book published in Routledge Research in Education

• On the Theory of Content Transformation in Education. The 3A Methodology for Analysing and Improving Teaching and Learning

Mgr. Michal Kramárek, Ph.D.
MED – Researcher, Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology
Mgr. Přemysl Souček, Ph.D.
MED – Senior researcher, Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergology

Awarded for the article published in Nucleic Acids Research

• Splicing analysis of STAT3 tandem donor suggests non-canonical binding registers for U1 and U6 snRNAs

RNDr. Jitka Malčíková, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Assistant professor, Šárka Pospíšilová Research Group
Mgr. Šárka Pavlová, Ph.D.
MED – Assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology and Oncology

Awarded for the article published in Leukemia

• ERIC recommendations for TP53 mutation analysis in chronic lymphocytic leukemia—2024 update

prof. Ing. Juraj Nemec, CSc.
ECON – Professor, Department of Public Economics
doc. Ing. Robert Jahoda, Ph.D.
ECON – Department head, Department of Public Economics
doc. JUDr. Ivan Malý, CSc.D.
ECON – Associate professor, Department of Public Economics

Awarded for the article published in Public Management Review

• Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability: the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Anna C. Papageorgiou, Ph.D.
CEITEC –  Konstantinos Tripsianes Research Group
Konstantinos Tripsianes, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Group Leader Senior, Konstantinos Tripsianes Research Group
Mgr. Michaela Pospíšilová
MED – Researcher, Lumír Krejčí Research Group
doc. Mgr. Lumír Krejčí, Ph.D.
MED – Head of the research group, Lumír Krejčí Research Group

Awarded for the article published in Nature Communications

• Recognition and coacervation of G-quadruplexes by a multifunctional disordered region in RECQ4 helicase

MUDr. Volodymyr Porokh
MED – Research specialist,  Zuzana Holubcová Research Group: Gametogenesis and Early Embryo Development
PharmDr. Zuzana Holubcová, Ph.D.
MED – Head, Zuzana Holubcová Research Group: Gametogenesis and Early Embryo Development

Awarded for the article published in Nature Communications

• Zygotic spindle orientation defines cleavage pattern and nuclear status of human embryos

RNDr. Ondřej Schindler, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Junior researcher, Biological Data Management and Analysis Core Facility
doc. RNDr. Radka Svobodová, Ph.D.
SCI – Associate professor, National Centre for Biomolecular Research

Awarded for the article published in Nucleic Acids Research

• αCharges: partial atomic charges for AlphaFold structures in high quality

Mgr. Michal Šimáně, PhD.
ARTS – Department of Educational Sciences
PhDr. Mgr. Oto Polouček, Ph.D.
ARTS – Assistant professor, Department of European Ethnology
doc. Mgr. Jiří Zounek, Ph.D.
ARTS – Associate professor, Department of Educational Sciences

Awarded for the book published in Springer Nature

• (Post)Socialist Transformation of Primary Schools

Mgr. et Mgr. Katarína Šipulová, Ph.D., MSt
LAW – Department head, Judicial Studies Institute
prof. JUDr. David Kosař, Ph.D., LL.M., J. S. D.
LAW – Department head, Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science

Awarded for an editorship published in German Law Journal

• Informal Judicial Institutions—Invisible Determinants of Democratic Decay

Mgr. Pavlína Víšková Gajarská, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing – postdoc
Mgr. Eva Ištvánková
CEITEC – PhD student, Lukáš Trantírek Research Group
RNDr. Silvie Trantírková, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Senior researcher, Lukáš Trantírek Research Group
doc. Mgr. Lukáš Trantírek, Ph.D.
CEITEC – Group leader Senior, Lukáš Trantírek Research Group

Awarded for the article published in Nature Communications

• In-cell NMR suggests that DNA i-motif levels are strongly depleted in living human cells