News: Institute of Physics

How science is transformed into a company, and what does it take to make a successful spin-off? These questions were addressed at the conference Od výzkumu k firmě: zakládání vědeckých start-upů a spin-offů (From Research to Business: Founding Scientific Start-ups and Spin-offs), organized by the Division of Optics’ team. The event offered an inspiring atmosphere and a diverse mix of participants – scientists, representatives of stat-up support providers, and start-up founders.

Jindřich Musil was born on January 19, 1934, in Březina. After graduating from the University of Defense in Brno in 1957, he started to pursue his career in science; first as a researcher at Tesla, then, from 1961, at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences at the Institute of Plasma Physics and the Institute of Physics. 

The seminar will be held on the occasion of the visit of colleagues from the Institute of Metallurgy and Material Science, Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences; Warsaw University of Technology; and Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The invited speakers are experts on powder metallurgy, processing, corrosion and microstructural characterization of metallic materials with the focus, but not only on biodegradable metallic materials. In their presentations, our guests will introduce their institutes, current research activities, their main results and inventions and also possibilities of mutual collaboration.

Jan Loos, an emeritus member of the Department of Magnetics and Superconductors at the Cukrovarnická site, passed away on 9 November 2025 at the age of 95.