“I like resilience and sharp humour in Czechs,” says linguist Masako Ueda Fidler of Brown University, who has collaborated with CU for over fifteen years and recently received a Gold Medal of CU ARTS.

American studies scholar Jana Sehnálková, alumna and lecturer at CU’s Faculty of Social Sciences, heads the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic. She explains how to succeed with trips to American universities.

CU’s First Faculty of Medicine is receiving its first prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant. It was awarded to Slovak biophysicist Andrea Gálisová who researches extracellular vesicles. These can deliver therapy directly to cells.

Professor Harvey Weiss of Yale University co-organized an international Egyptology conference in Prague. He is known for his pioneering work in environmental archaeology and for advancing the theory that mega-droughts played a central role in the collapse of ancient civilizations.

Professor Mariana Llanos, a distinguished political scientist from Argentina, discusses her long journey from Oxford to the elite GIGA Institute in Hamburg and Charles University in Prague, where she became the ERA Chair holder. In this Forum magazine interview. 

Last year, three young researchers at Charles University won the Neuron Prize for promising scientists in the Czech Republic. One of them was astrophysicist Ondřej Pejcha, an expert on binary stars who studied at CU and at Princeton University.

Italian scientist Alessandro Testa has already written three book-length monographs. The works, published in Italian, focus on the relationship between ancient myths and modern mythology, folk carnivals and the history of religiosity in the region he himself comes from.

Ještě jako studentka zpovídala pro bakalářskou práci prvního porevolučního rektora UK Radima Palouše. Jana Wohlmuth Markupová vede pracoviště Orální historie – soudobé dějiny na FHS UK.

Za posledních pár dekád počet studentek na UK neustále roste a v současnosti ve všech studijních programech dívky nad chlapci jasně převažují. Ve vedoucích funkcích se však stejně jako na jiných univerzitách objevují ženy spíše sporadicky.

Astrophysicist Ondřej Pejcha completed his doctorate at Ohio State University in 2013 but for the scientist that was just the beginning.