Honors and Awards
Metrohm 2026 Awards
On February 10, 2026, our colleague Ing. Jan Dismas Buriánek received the Metrohm Award for the best publication by a young electrochemist under 35 in the field of electroanalytical chemistry for his article supported by OPJAK, "Methodology of evaluating the activation energy of oxygen reduction reaction on Pt-based electrodes", published in the Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2025.119418
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HYTEP Prize and Best Student Poster Award at Hydrogen Days 2025
Ing. Tomáš Jedlička was awarded the HYTEP prize for his excellent diploma thesis "Inkjet-printed catalyst layers for PEM fuel cells" in the field of hydrogen and hydrogen technologies. This prize was awarded during the Hydrogen Days 2025 conference, which took place on 19-21 March 2025 in Prague. Ing. Tomáš Jedlička was also awarded for the best poster in the student section at this conference.
Double congratulations Tomáš!
Best oral relating to material research at SPEA12
Ing. Tomáš Imrich received the "BEST ORAL RELATING TO MATERIAL RESEARCH" award for his contribution at the 12th European Conference on Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis: Energy and Environmental Applications (SPEA12), which took place on 17–21 June 2024 in Belfast. Ing. Imrich succeeded with his contribution "Bromine generation on various photoanodes: α-Fe2O3, Fe2TiO5, WO3 and TiO2".
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HYTEP Award presented at Hydrogen Days 2024
Ing. Nela Adamová won the HYTEP prize for her excellent diploma thesis "Influence of electrolyte composition on solid oxide cell properties" in the field of hydrogen and hydrogen technologies. This prize was awarded during the Hydrogen Days 2024 conference, which took place on 20-22 March 2024 in Prague.
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Ivan Dlouhý Prize 2024
The Ivan Dlouhý Prize for the best diploma thesis awarded to students of the Faculty of Chemical Technology in the field of chemical technology using mathematical modelling was awarded to a graduate of our department Ing. Daniela Mauci with her thesis "Preparation of homogeneous spherical particles by lyophilization".
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Werner von Siemens Awards
Ing. Michaela Plevová, Ph.D. won the 5th place at the 25th edition of the prestigious Werner von Siemens award in the category of the best dissertation for her thesis Catalyst coated membranes for alkaline water electrolysis. The Werner von Siemens Prize not only aims to motivate exceptional talents among students and researchers, but also to strengthen the positive attitude of students and the general public towards science and, last but not least, to highlight the tireless work of teachers, which is often unjustly neglected. With its scope, the amount of financial rewards and tradition, our competition is one of the most important independent initiatives of this kind in the Czech Republic.
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Metrohm 2024 awards
Ing. Tereza Bautkinová won a prestigious award at the 13th annual Metrohm Czech Republic competition on February 7, 2024 in Prague for the best publication by a young electroanalytical chemist under 35 years. She received the award for her publication Introducing titanium hydride on porous transport layer for more energy efficient water electrolysis with proton exchange membrane in the Journal of Power Sources.
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Best Poster Award at the ABAF 2023 Conference
Ing. Daniel Budáč won the second prize for the best student poster at the 24th International Conference Advanced Batteries, Accumulators and Fuel Cells (ABAF24), which took place from 27-30 August 2023 in Brno. The conference was organized in collaboration with the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly. Daniel was successful with his contribution "Development of Structured Electrodes for Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells".
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Best Poster Award at the HydrogenDays 2023 Conference
Ing. Miloslav Hala was awarded for the best student poster at the 13th International Conference on Hydrogen Technologies (HydrogenDays 2023), which took place from 29-31 March 2023 in Prague. Mirek was successful with his contribution "Performance Measurement of Inkjet Printed Catalyst Layers for PEM Fuel Cells".
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The year 2023 was a very successful one for our colleague Dr. Balamurugan Devadas, who received the Outstanding Scientist Award at the International Conference for Award Winners in Engineering, Science and Medicine held in India in April.
Congratulations Bala!
Young Researcher Award
Our collegue Náš kolega Dr. Balamurugan Devadas recieved an award at International Conference of Electrochemistry for Industry, Health and Enviromnment (EIHE)-2023 for his oral contribution.
Congratulation!
Award for Best Original Article in "Plyn" journal
The author team of academic staff of our department, namely Ing. Milan Bernauer, Ph.D., doc. Dr. Ing. Vlastimil Fíla and doc. Ing. Bohumil Bernauer, CSc. won the 2nd prize for the Best Original Article published in the journal "Plyn" for the year 2021 for the publication "Preparation of hydrogen by direct decomposition of methane".
Congratulations on this award!
Best Poster Award at the ABAF 2022 Conference
Ing. Daniel Budáč won the second prize for the best student poster at the 23rd International Conference Advanced Batteries, Accumulators and Fuel Cells (ABAF22), which took place from 21-24 August 2022 in Brno. The conference was organized in collaboration with the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Battery 2030+ European Research Initiative. Daniel was successful with his contribution "Numerical Prediction of Electrical Conductivity of Porous Composite Materials: LSM-YSZ Case Study".
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Ivan Dlouhy Prize 2022
The Ivan Dlouhý Prize for the best diploma thesis awarded to students of the Faculty of Chemical Technology in the field of chemical technology using mathematical modelling was awarded to a graduate of our institute Ing. Filip Stankuš with his thesis "Alginate granulation of silver iodide".
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The best poster award from the conference Modern Trends in Inorganic Technologies 2021
The prize for the best poster at the conference "Modern Trends in Inorganic Technologies 2022", which took place in Košice, Slovakia, on 1-4 September 2021, was awarded to a student of our PhD program and a close collaborator of our institute, who is studying at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. Ing. Daniel Budáč convinced the jury of the importance of the coelectrolysis of water and CO2 with his poster entitled "Coelectrolysis of water and carbon dioxide using high-temperature solid oxide cells". The second prize winner was Mgr. Vojtěch Miloš, who presented an innovative mathematical model in his paper "Open source Julia software for physical simulation, preprocessing and analysis of electrochemical data". The last prize winner was our colleague Ing. Jan Hroch from the University of Pardubice with the poster "Preparation of brown cool pigments with perovskite SrSnO3 structure".
Congratulations to all the winners!
The award for the best poster at the ABAF 2021 conference
Ing. Michal Carda won the second prize for the best student poster at the 22nd International Conference Advanced Batteries, Accumulators and Fuel Cells (ABAF21), which took place on 22-25 August 2021 in Brno. The conference was organized in cooperation with the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Electrochemical Society (ECS). Michal succeeded with his paper "Preparation and properties of YSZ ceramic electrolyte for solid oxide cells".
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The best poster award from ESEE 2021
Ing. Michaela Plevová received an award for the best poster for her contribution titled “Preparation of catalyst coated membrane for alkaline water electrolysis: influence of the substrate and preparation method”. This poster was presented at the 12th European Symposium on Electrochemical Engineering (ESEE 2021) organized by the WPEE (Working Party on Electrochemical Engineering at EFCE) in collaboration with Wetsus. The conference was held online on 14-17. June 2021.
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The best poster award
Ing. Martin Ďurovič won the award for the best poster at the Hydrogen Days 2021 conference, organized by the Czech Hydrogen Technology Platform. Due to ongoing measures against the spread of Covid-19, this conference was held online on 24-25 March. Martin succeeded with his poster "NiCoP cathode catalyst for electrochemical water splitting: Structural and electrochemical characterization".
Congratulation!
The best poster award
Students category of the best poster award at 20th International Conference on Advanced Batteries, Accumulators and Fuel Cells“ (Brno, 25.-28. 5. 2019) won Ing. Michal Carda for his poster entitled "Impact of Morphological And Structural Changes On Performance Of Solid Oxide Cells".
Congratulation!
Certificate of Merit
Our dear collegue Dr. Balamurugan Devadas has been awarded with prestigious award at international electrochemical symposium iSAEST-12 for his contribution entitled "Electrochemical synthesis of 2-Iodoxybenzoic acid as higly selective metal-free organic oxidation agent".
Congratulations Bala!
Ivan Dlouhý prize
Even in this year our students did a great job. Ing. Karel Denk ("Capacitive deionization for drinking water desalination") and Ing. Jakub Rutrle ("Optimization and mathematical modeling of the laboratory alkaline water electrolyzer stack") has been awarded by Ivan Dlouhý prize for the best thesis in chemical technology with utillization of mathematical modelling.
Congratulations for both of you!
The best poster award
Students category of the best poster award at Moderné trendy v anorganických technológiách 2018“ (Bánská Šťávnice, 21.-23. 5. 2018) won two students Ing. Michal Carda with his poster "High temperature reactors for energy storage" and Ing. Martin Pultar for his work regarding "Dolomite dissolving in nitric acid".
Thank you for great represantation of our department and congratulations!
Ivan Dlouhý prize
One of the first alumnae of study programme "Hydrogen and membrane technologies" Ing. Michal Carda has been awarded with Ivan Dlouhý prize for his thesis entitled "An influence of selected phosphorus compounds on H3PO4-doped proton exchange membrane fuel cell operation" as the best thesis in chemical technology with utillizing mathematical modelling.
The best publication award
Metroohm company Czech Republic s.r.o. awarded our collegue Ing. Tomáš Bytroň, Ph.D. for the best scientific publication of young electroanalytical chemist (up to 35 years old). Commetee acknowledged his paper "H3PO3 electrochemical behaviour on a bulk Pt electrode: adsorption and oxidation kinetics" published in impacted journal Electrochimica Acta.
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(M. Prokop, T. Bystron, M. Paidar, K. Bouzek, Electrochimica Acta 212 (2016) 465-472)
Ivan Dlouhý prize
For the best thesis in chemical technology with utillizing mathematical modelling was this year awarded Ing. Tereza Jadrná with her thesis "Design and characterization of the alkaline water electrolyzer stack with anion selective polymer electrolyte".
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The best young scientist award (up to 35 years old) for UCT employees
Last week the Vice-Rector for Research and Development awarded 5 out of 23 registered young talented scientists for their outstanding work. Among the rewarded was our collegue Ing. Tomáš Bystroň, Ph.D., who recieved motiavtion aid for his research work. Congratulations for this important award!
Josef Hlávka prize
Our postgraduate student Ing. Filip Karas recieved a significant Josef Hlávka award on 23. July 2015 in Lužany. This award is designated for the best students and alumnea from Prague public universities, technical university of Brno and young talented workers of Czech Academy of Science. He was awarded for his outstanding abilities and creative mind in his field of expertise.
Rector prize for young scientists
Huge success acheived Ing. Roman Kodým, Ph.D., our assistant-professor. Among three other collegues he received on 23. July 2015 in Betlem Chapel the "Rector prize for the best young scientist in 2015". He was acknowledged foir his outstanding scientifical, educational and organizational results.
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"Hydrogen Days 2015" - our students were awarded
Several of our students were awarded for their work during "Hydrogen Days 2015" conference which took place in Prague in March 2015.
The prize for the best student lecture won Ing. Jaromír Hnát and Ing. Martin Prokop for their lectures entitled "Properties of novel anion selective material with DABCO functional groups for alkaline water electrolysis" and "Kinetics of H3PO3 electrochemical oxidation on a bulk electrode" respectively.
Ing. Jakub Mališ managed to win the best student poster cathegory for his poster "Hydrogen permeability of selected perfluorinated sulphonated membranes in PEM water electrolysis".
Congratulations to all of you!
The best student poster
During the conference "Moderní trendy v anorganických technologiích 2014" again proved our students their excellent abilities. Two out of three best posters won our postgraduate students. Ing. Šárka Paušová for her poster "Preparation and photocatalytic activity of ZnCr-LDH" and Ing. Jakub Polonský for his work "Anodes for PEM water electrolyzers".
Congratulations.
Hydrogen days 2014 - Awarded students
In April 2014 was held a conference "Hydrogen Days 2014" and three of our students were rewarded for their contributions:
Student Award recieved:
- Ing. Jakub Polonský for his lecture "Optimisation of an anode for the PEM water electrolysers",
- Ing. Monika Drakselová for her poster "Mathematical modelling – powerful tool for understanding of degradation mechanisms in PEM type fuel cel",
- Ing. Martin Prokop for his poster "Preparation of Pt based catalytic layer on the rotating electrode surface for catalyst characterisation in H3PO4 at elevated temperatures".
Josef Hlávka prize
This prestigious prize received in 2012 our postgraduate student Ing. Petr Mazúr.
The best poster award - 4th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment 2012, Cairns, Australia
Ing. Miloslav Lhotka, Ph.D. and his team received the best poster award for their contribution "Removal of Arsenic and Selenium with Rehydrated Clay Minerals".
Conference ELMEMPRO 2012
During ELMEMPRO conference in Český Krumlov received Ing. Karel Vazač award for the best poster. As the best lectures were acknowledged lectures given by Ing. Jaromír Hnát (3rd place) and Ing. Petr Pánek (4th place).
Josed Hlávka prize
This prestigious prize received in 2011 our postgraduate student Ing. Jaromír Hnát.
Unipetrol prize 2011
Unipetrol prize 2011 received our student Ing. Jakub Mališ for his thesis "Air pollution influence on membrane fuel cell behavior".
The best poster award - Trendy v anorganické technologii 2011
The best poster award received our two students Ing. Šárka Paušová and Ing. Karel Vazač.
Josef Hlávka prize
This prestigious prize received in 2010 our postgraduate student Ing. Martin Zlámal.
Unipetrol prize 2010
Unipetrol prize 2010 received our student Ing. František Moulis for his thesis "Mathematical model of the annular flow microreactor for the high-temperature methane oxidation".
Commemorative medal in surfaces treatment
In this year received doc. Ing. Vladimír Mejta, CSc. the commemorative medal for his contributions in this field.
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Josef Hlávka prize
This prestigious prize received in 2009 our postgraduate student Ing. Tomáš Bystroň.
Minister of Education, Youth and Sports prize for science in 2008
This prize was awarded to prof. Dr. Ing. Karlu Bouzkovi for his scientific work in years 2000 - 2008 for his work regarding utillization of conductive polemers as catalytic support in low temperature fuel cells.
The best poster award - PRŮMYSLOVÁ CHEMIE
The best poster award was given by Czech Chemistry Society and Spolchemie a.s. to our bachelor student (3rd year) Jakub Mališ for his contribution "Operating conditions influence on PEM fuel cell characteristics".
Synergie 2008
Our postgraduate student Ing. Roman Kodým received Synergie 2008 award for his project in collaboration with MEGA a.s. entitled “Optimized flow distributor in industrial electrodialyzer EDR III”.
Josef Hlávka prize
This prestigious prize received in 207 our postgraduate student Mgr. Petr Holzhauser.
Prize for Chemistry 2006
Excellent third place in Chemistry prize obtained our postgradual student Mgr. Petr Holzhauser.